Again not true. If the AI is ahead of you they will not slow down. Likewise they can't catch up to you out of nowhere. Of course if you mess up they will catch up obviously then again, if you had this game for an extensive time you'd know this.There is no rubber banding as far as artificially changing a cars attributes. But the A.I. does slow down ahead of you, and play more aggressively when behind. That was admitted by the games director.