[Mr Speirs]

How are you controlling the car? i.e. what button is your accelerator / brake?

I changed them to L2 and R2 so that I could have a wee bit of throttle through the corners where as when is was X and sqaure i found it either to be off or on.

In terms of setting up your car make it as light as possible. If you can brake later than every other car you will gain ground on almost every corner. I havent played the game in a while so cant remember what the last special is or what car I used but I seem to remember using the Ferrari 430 alot. That said I found the R8 to be the best handling car in the game.