Actually, on the "community" server there's a player called "SS SsS" who is cheating. I suspect a lag cheat. His time is 8 seconds better than a FR2, with a Silhouette... I took a video of him but there's almost nothing to see. He stops in the straight line, before the start line, and become transparent. After 15 seconds, its time starts, then he go through the check points... but without moving, always at the same position, transparent... and finally he does a time. He did another "virtual lap" and suddenly was teleported on the track soon after the finish line, driving like a noob.
I tested to block him before he starts his strange virtual lap, but he activated something that makes him transparent, so I can't touch him.
Do you recall how much ping he had? Seen something similar before, a 46 second lap around Redbullring in WTCC '14s, couldn't figure that one out either, the guy was smooth as silk in the race. Do lag switches work in R3E?