It's definitely goos times, but I think Charlie is stacking the deck somehow. Last night during a stretch of quite a few races, Charlie would finish well, then proceed to get 'stuck' in a rocket during the next race. One time I actually drove off the road because I was watching Chuck chase me down like I was standing still, thinking to myself, "are you shitting me, he's in another go-to car" and I entered the spoon at Suzuka a bit distracted.
Also, the ghosting thing is confusing me. First, I saw someone who spun in the middle of the track last night, I swerved to miss him not realizing he was a ghost, and then I drove myself off the damned track. And second, from time to time we need to remove the ghost thing because every once in a while I need to perform some community service and put some joker into the wall.