It has come to my attention that one frame(or whatever it's called) is too big of a time measurement.
http://forum.toribash.com/racer.php?levelid=138 In this level I'm clearly in front of everyone else, as me and EJM(who is placed as 1st) are pretty much on top of each other at the finish line, but I'm almost half a car in front of him, yet I'm placed 3rd.
It doesn't matter to me to be first or to be third in this case, but when it comes to stuff like bounties I believe every tenth of a frame counts.
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It works for me.
And also, I believe that happened because the game just registers you by your score and sorts you by the score. It will never completely accurate. You were the 3rd person most likely to get a score of 283. Instead of sorting the places by the exact time, for example: 283.74 vs. 283.4, the game just sorts it as 283 and 283, and pushes you to 3rd.