@Spetty1504 as I thought, you are facing an AI Ghost, not a real human opponent. For some reason EA/FM decided to include these AI ghosts like Black Fox in the lower SP ranks with super fast cars and perfect runs, basically killing our chances of progressing up the leader-board ladder, no matter how well you race against human opponents.
Maybe this is a strategy of EA/FM to get us to use more tuning tools or do more races in BRR so we end up buying tuning spanners or spending gold on upgrading cars... who knows, but you can be sure their thinking wasn't based upon improving the gaming experience, but rather to try and boost their earnings.
The chances of this being a bug or glitch? I doubt it... Hey, maybe EA/FM just want us to get sick of the game and delete it so they can launch another game that looks great but sucks money out of your pocket and is not actually fun to play... they're getting quite good at that... building games that hook you in on the hope that it's actually going to be fun, fair and exciting at some point (but never gets there).