Emulator: VBA-RR v24m svn480
I don't know... Either I'm playing this game horribly wrong, or I'm doing it incredibly right. The game was telling me to turn back most of the time. I got a time of 36"35 for my first lap before blowing up in a tragic explosion, while still in first place in Expert.
To convince you to look, this is a hilarious 36"35 to watch (my opinion). I don't believe I was driving in any fashion a sane player would do.
Seems to work fine (though this was made in v24 and probably won't work in v23.6). I'm curious about thoughts of any experts who've been messing with multiple versions of VBA.