Thanks, but unfortunately Seb forward and reverse (and possibly Chenghou forward) are the only tracks I _can_ win at the moment on rapier/phantom speed, I just can't pilot my Goteki 45 well enough yet to compete with all the Icaras ships out there. So I've a long way to go still.
Oh, and I think I know why you thought you were first: sometimes the game lets you off the starting grid sooner or later than the rest of the pilots, so you might see the split timer showing you 16 seconds behind the field when in reality you're second or third with only a second behind. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to tell when this happens, so you'll only learn your true position once the results screen pops up.
Anyway, if anyone needs some help in Bling Brigade to fill a spot, drop me a message, I'm usually online from like 17:00-19:00 GMT.