I doubt that you have to drive properly to get good times. Whenever I go with someone really fast from cockpit view there´s sliding and drifting through the corners. You just have to know where you can do it.
I have the impression my so called clean driving makes me slow most of the time.
I wonder, did my post count go up a lot today and yesterday? Like two days or yesterday someone said I had a high post count of about 2500 and I thought: "hmm, 2500 is still a while before I get there".....