I know this is Speedrun.com, but I don't know anywhere else where this idea will get easy attention.

Super Mario Kart is already a premiere speed game, but it needs something more- a high score category. I present Highest Point Lead. Highest Point Lead is an Individual Grand Prix run of sorts where at the end of each Grand Prix, your score is determined by the difference between you and 2nd place. So having 45 points and having two other drivers tied with 21 would be a 24 point lead over 2nd place for example. You would take your best score of each individual Grand Prix (sort of like IL Time Trials) and add them all together to determine who has the most total points. There would also be a "best overall" like in the Time Trial leaderboards. Getting a lead of 27 or 30 points on the same cup on the same difficulty will only add 3 or 6 more points to the 24 you originally had before, not 27 or 30 more points. It's only your PB's we're comparing here obviously.

Unlike Time Trials, any official release of the game can be used. No emulators or unofficial console ports though. On Wii U and Switch, you can change the button configuration. As long as you aren't using cheats, save states, or rewind, the run counts.

Some general tips for Highest Point Lead: There is one "super racer" assigned as the rival for each driver as well as a distinct hierarchy thereafter. Study this and use items at the end of races (while coming in 1st) to manipulate positions obviously. The next best racer who places 2nd will take the place of being your main super racer rival, so factor that in.

DKR and the Crash racing games, as well as other racing series not even related to "cartoony arcade go-karting" could have something like this. It'll certainly be something for when the time trials run out of fuel.

Make it happen.

sounds like more focus on item placement and finishing at a strategic time instead of going as fast as you can. meh

It is. It was inspired by the 8th place challenge and has the opposite goal. It involves similar things to achieve the greatest lead.

Here it is- an introduction to what "HPL" is.

Yeah, get the concept. It just doesn't belong on this site. Maybe a forum post on the TT Players' Page will get 3 or 4 takers.

As dan__h said, this idea is worth of a forum topic at best. That being said, there's something else that I want to address:

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Unlike Time Trials, any official release of the game can be used.