I find actual time trials much more convenient as you can just go straight into them from the main menu and have your pick of car
Yes, but they are boring (if you don't drive well) I don't have a steering wheel, so it's much more fun for me to drive in the company of the same clumsy and weak AI, if I could I would make a copy of every time trial but with rivals.
I have little questions to better understand what you want 1. You prefer to go through the Time trial menu or directly in the map? 2. Ai races with opponents? Several different classes? (truck, cars, other?)
Idk, I can drive extremely fast on nothing but an Xbox Series X controller with minimal assistance from the game and full-manual.
It's an awesome track. Undoubtedly, but an optimization update is due. There are many assets outside of the BeamNG render distance, like the 100km+ island and placeholder assets like people under/in the ground and houses. Basically whatever can't be seen from the track I believe should be removed, and maybe the removal of a few people here and there shouldn't hurt. But that's just a suggestion.