The Items need a bit of a Rework.

In 8th-3rd Place I get Red Shells and Tripple Mushrooms. For the CPU They get Bullet Bills, Blue Shells, Mega Mushrooms, and Stars in 8th-3rd Place. How is this fair? This needs to be addressed so we can have a fair chance with items. It's super hard to catch up to CPUs in 8th place with only crappy red shells and tripple mushrooms when they get the better Items.

I'm serious. This CPU thing really needs to be fixed. Make The Items stats like MK8s Item stats and once the CPU get right behind you in GP they go the same speed as you similar to MK64 or MKDD.

I think you have the highest amount of skill issue posts on this website. CPUs are not hard at all, even without reverse drift.

Try braking while drifting. And repeat that for the whole race by alternating drifting normally and braking while drifting.