In racing games, how do the developers determine which cars get the ‘best’ stats? Do they try to emulate real life as well as possible or do brands pay them for inflated stats?

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In racing games, how do the developers determine which cars get the ‘best’ stats? Do they try to emulate real life as well as possible or do brands pay them for inflated stats?

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Answer 1

Dude racing games seem dumb to me. Is there even any point to racing against bots? How much RNG can you put into a cpu player?

I mean wheres the difficulty there?
Now racing against players is awesome! But singleplayer?