Comment by wcrossbow

I was refering here to playing competitively, that is, playing with the only goal of winning. Of course, it is perfectly acceptable to play for style or to manage a podium with the worst configuration or anything you fancy [].

However, if your one and only goal is winning I suspect that the high dimensional vector space will end up not looking so high dimensional once you account for the correlations between the different features you use. This is already clear from the very strong correlation between speed and accelaration.

[]I myself have played MK64 a lot and sometimes the goal was simply to see the world burn, standing on a corner with a shell waiting for the what would've been the winner of the race. Fond memories.