The issue that I have with RT is that with the way this game is handled on modern machines, it has a few seconds of black on the menus between tracks, but you can still click through. You can see this in my recordings, and I have to intentionally slow down in between tracks to make sure my time is displayed before continuing to the next track, so that it's clear I'm not splicing runs. I wouldn't be able to wait that time between levels if I was going for RT, but if we go by IGT it doesn't affect my time. So if we stick with RT, suddenly I'm unable to compete at all, which is a major feels bad when there's only 4 of us running it, and I blasted the previous IGT record by 5 seconds, but am still 3rd overall.

Just did a run of this with 4:00 IGT. I feel like I agree with the earlier sentiment of IGT not relying on hardware to be the better metric. I also think a game called Stunt Track Driver should depend on how many stunts you can do during the race as well. It's a test of skill afterall, and the highest skill requires being able to do as many stunts as possible, and collect gold coins, while not crashing. Just my 2 cents. If we're sticking to RTA I suppose I can try more runs geared towards that.