Yes, I do play TTs and Speed Laps for records. Breaking records is the fun in TTs and Speed Laps, innit? Non-record-related fun is drawn from Single Races and Online, for me.

And yes, I think BRs take away from the TT fun. Not because I can't pull them off (I'm getting to a point where it works pretty consistently), but rather because I don't like the different line I need to take for a BR. It just doesn't feel like a racing line. More like slopestyle...