The kudo system (or maybe my driving) is so weird in this game. I understand the concept, skidding = kudos, but it never seems so regular. In the early chapters, it was all I could do to get 150 or even 200 points skidding wildly around the track. Now on much later chapters, I'm not even trying to skid, don't skid that much, and wind up with highly inflated scores like 800 points. I never really know how well pointswise I've done until the points get tallied. Kinda weird
The game has gotten a lot more enjoyable now that I've unlocked larger tracks and faster cars though.