Other racers have clearly no such restrictions as the player has: 80-90 HP, street legal (no IP fine), rear wheel drive. So I think that's impossible.
I will ask the author of this
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1207774468

Other AI have default car models, so they're way faster than you. Sadly this race can take hours of your life if you wanna do it legit. I don't even know if it's possible. You can try with crazy weight reduction tho but I recommend to skip the race or do it with cheat

Weight reduction is off the table, you can't cut down more than 20% while still remaining street legal. Decided to investigate the possibility of changing the event to run properly, and it's a mixed bag.

Digging into the game files, it seems like you could theoretically mod the event(assuming the game runs the .java files in its folders at runtime instead of having everything precompiled) to run on other bots. There are also hints you also need a header file pointing to the script files but i haven't checked extensively enough for that.

Apparently, the bots are also reused in other career events, so simply changing them would also cause undesired changes in other events. There's the option of creating new bot drivers specifically for the event, but the career event class seems to only accept drivers by an hardcoded ID value in the driver database and i can't figure out how to:

- make sure the new drivers get appended to it instead of being inserted somewhere along the middle of the driver list and causing issues elsewhere;

- make sure other mods don't affect this(is there a method somewhere mapping a driver name to its corresponding ID at runtime, preferentially running faster than O(n) considering the noticeable amount of time it takes to load the event list already?)

- make it so the modded event replaces the existing event instead of adding a new one

- (optional) remove the RWD restriction and potentially relax the engine power restrictions so a stock Coyot can run the event

- (optional?) pack it all as a mod and upload it to the workshop assuming i end up managing to solve the above

Where can i find documentation on doing that? streetlegalmods seems to be down and vstanced doesn't appear to have a relevant tutorial on event modding.

Originally posted by RA2lover:

- (optional) remove the RWD restriction and potentially relax the engine power restrictions so a stock Coyot can run the event

- (optional?) pack it all as a mod and upload it to the workshop assuming i end up managing to solve the above

I don't think there are any tutorials about event modding, so just stick to these goals as they are easy and will solve the problem.

I can help doing basic changes. Removing the HP limit is may not possible, but it can be increased

Guys, there is a way to win this race, it's not that difficult.
yeah, the AI cars will ABSOLUTELY DESTROY YOU when you only have 89hp max, even using a low methanol injection and nitrous, BUT, there is a way as i show here

First you need to install a mod that can transform your coyote a rwd car, i used this one, it works pretty fine as the game still recognizes your car as a legit rwd car.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1932107448

I dont really know thir second is because i got lucky or cause i'm now using a phsyics mod called Soha's phsyics, they will literally kill themselves at this corner as it is a corner right after a jump
the corner: https://imgur.com/BYdT6hV
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1128946081

after they have done their show, you just finish the race "legit" as you had attended all the requisites to join the race and finished in first, at least ive done like this and it worked

This mod will allow some more power:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2311434691

Btw, some event bug fixes:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3293385715