What are some ways to detect 1st place during a race?

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- mumu64
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What are some ways to detect if a race car is in 1st place, during the race?

In the following 2D situations:

- top down view

- side view, cars going up, multiple laps (so only comparing y-value is not sufficient)

Thanks in advance.

So far I have one, which is not perfect: add bullet behaviour, store distance traveled in instance variable and compare which one has the highest value.
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- newt
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Since you can get the distance traveled you can use the final value to say who's first by subtracting the distance traveled from the total distance.

Unless there's a possibility for objects to go way off course.
- dop2000
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Have you seen "Race track" template? It uses checkpoints to detect which car is in front.
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- mumu64
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Thank you newt and dop2000.

I forgot to check out the templates in C3.