Re: New difficulty layer required

In the Career and Championship modes, you can limit the number of restarts for each event, and enable hardcore damage. Enabling hardcore damage and setting restarts to none will definitely make crashing have more consequences, especially if you have the events set up with more stages.

Solo quickplay lets you enable hardcore damage, but I'm not sure why they force unlimited restarts without any choice there. Not sure what it's like for Clubs as I haven't messed with those yet, but I would hope they don't have any restarts, or at least the option for the Club runners to choose zero restarts.

Hardcore damage could probably be amped up a bit, too.