[rickmb]

I don't think it would. Because part of racing is gambling on the other driver to back off when fighting for position. And when I say "gambling", there are a lot of very human factors involved in trying to figure out an opponents likely behavior. It's not like chess.

[ars]

Computers actually play poker rather well.

And in racing computers have no fear for their life, and they know exactly what their (cars) limits are - I think it could be done.