I am slowly losing my mind

Guys... I am beginning to slowly fall into insanity.

Mafia DE is BY FAR one of the best remakes I have ever played and the gameplay is very fun but man... there is one thing about this game... one thing that is genuinely ruining an otherwise great game... and it's that god forsaken race.

I've managed to beat it on normal difficulty no problem, but I am an achievement hunter and I always 100% the games I really like, and this is a game I really like. But I have been stuck on Fair Play on Classic difficulty for over a month now. I have been trying every other day for 2 hours each day and no success. I've watched guides, done everything identical to them in the videos but somehow something always happens that screws me over.

At this point I am starting to believe that the race is rigged. You are affected by physics but the other racers are not, all of them are faster than you, they always randomly bump into you and one tiny scratch causes them to see me rolling. Also it feels that whenever you start spinning even a little bit, the car is coded to always end up backwards, so if you even see you start to spin even a tiny little bit, you have to restart because you are not winning the race anymore. I'm not exaggerating when I say I gotta have AT LEAST 100 retries.

I know this is a rant but seriously, this race is such a gatekeeper. It prevents you from playing the rest of the game. I know this mission was harder in the original and I somehow managed to beat that back in 2007 when I played it for the first time, AS A SIX YEAR OLD. How on earth did I beat that as a 6 year old and I can't beat this as a 24 year old. It's crazy.

But yeah. I feel like this mission alone is ruining what would otherwise be a genuine 10/10 game.