[Russell Sobie]

It's a bit odd, but basically you have to run the skin app in game, and once it says "all available skins are downloaded" or whatever it says, you actually have to restart the game. So essentially you have to join the race really fast, wait around for everyone that has a custom skin to join and upload, and then you have to QUIT, which could bleed into Qualifying time. Good news is that once you do this once with everyone that has a custom skin, you keep those skins locally, so you won't have to do it next race (assuming no new skins are used, anyway).