Actually, one of the best things they did was MISS wrecking you. On my forays into Demoland I've come across them a few times, and if there is one thing they are not good at, other than actually driving, it's hitting other cars. They are SO easy to avoid...
Having said that I think one of them is reasonably quick when he wants to be, but after 5 laps of keeping him 50m behind me I gave up and wrecked him