Not to derail the thread too much, but after many painstaking hours I was able to get the golden wheel in MKWii (no stars though, that's too damn annoying :P). Every online race I play there's one dude with like 8-9k points who zooms away and smokes everyone and I usually finish second right between him and the rest of the pack. I beat that lead dude once though, that was fun. :)