I have another small annoyance with WipEout. (Getting back on-topic), if you destroy another craft in WipEout by collision, leech-beam or any other "non-lethal" way (ie- drain the ships shield to [below] 0), you dont get points for a kill, but it most definitely counts towards your overall deaths. Not that I care, but its as if the stats pay no mind to a kill this way. Collisions and LB's are a couple of the many strategies in game.