Yeah, I believe that happened a few times when I was playing you. Half the time I was involved in that somehow. =P
Yeah, welll. Whenever I think about removing the blue shells from the game I realize how important they are. For example, on MK Wii, you can choose to race in VS mode without items. When you do that, as soon as you get out front you aren't challenged at all, because there's no blue shell to worry about.
Whereas in online play, the first place person is usually close to second place, and when they see a blue shell coming they brake and get passed, just to avoid the shell...