Nah they're best the way they are, it's a lot of fun avoiding race ruiners and also ruining a race, it's a DM server over anything. I might as well use this topic for my suggestion as it's kind of related. How about implementing auto repair car just before the race begins, or every few seconds in the checkpoint (the new function in 0.3 RepairVehicle) so the bodywork, health and tires get repaired, no more having to go to transfenders/pay n spray to repair and potentially miss out on the race over some noob shooting at your tires! I know there is a load of protection atm already, everyone's weapons are disabled near the race checkpoint so it's hard for race noobs, but this would prevent noobs shooting from a distance with snipers and ak's puncturing your tires, coz this still happens every now and then, and it's hard to catch the noob who did it.