u/PowerPlayPone

When he had the "Finish ahead of Mike Skinner" sponsor objective, he kept that sponsor between Season 1 and Season 2. Mike Skinner retired, and even though that meant he was no longer racing, for some backwards reason he was not getting anything for the sponsor objective. He came to the conclusion that Skinner was technically 0th place and 0 is less than 1, which because of how race positions have worked since time eternal, gives the player an automatically worse finishing position than Skinner has even if the player won a race.

What's ACTUALLY going on here so I can tell KamikazeGames what's the deal with that and other sponsors like it?