well done, you've done better than me, i ended up skipping it cuz i'd already wasted 9 tickets trying to beat it and i was in trouble of not having enough time left to finish all of the days races, nothing i tried could could get me to beat it, the closest i came was losing by 0.13 sec
just out of interest what was the pr of the opponent? it was showing as 527 for me
what annonyed me though was i had my car at around 490pr and my opponent was finishing the race in around 25.20 sec, i spent some gold and got my pr up to around 515 but then all of a sudden my opponent started to finish in around 24.80 sec!
once i'd got passed the first hunter race all of the other races including the other 2 hunter races were a breeze! seems like a preprogrammed bottleneck to make you spend gold if you ask me