You don't see our point if view, we are trying to make things sensible, not remove them. Having a race system without the possibility to actually race and win, doesn't make such does, does it? Drive-by, i cba, as I barely get killed by it, it avoidable pretty easy as it doesn't kill you instantly like helikilling does. If your in middle of the fight, you don't have time to check the helis, you can't consentrate like that.
On the rustler subject however, only people who defend this are the rustler people themselves as they are just no good in other things. You got to admit that even 1 rustler destroys the hole race, some limits have to be made. I remember those races where you could actually FINISH, not like nowadays where you can't even finish half of the race. Everything else is avoidable in races except rustlers.
Rules or changes MUST be made.