What most gamers in the linkups can't do, and since a lot of time is wasted until the task is finished, is slipstreaming, which probably 80% of gamers can't do. When we play in a party, the task is completed very quickly, if I drive alone in a linkup, it sucks, you turn your car around to drive behind another gamer, but then that gamer turns his car around too, and drives away quickly. And the next gamer too. You get the same points for helping slipstream. And exactly when that happens, you know exactly that this linkup will soon be finished without completing all the tasks.
Just FYI you can slipstream the police which has helped heaps in games like what you talk about, but they can be sketchy as well and so it's hit and miss, just like players, but it is an option.
