InfoDroid, do you have a problem with the BotF podrace? Because I love it already -- I just want to refocus the attention on Qui Gonn's watching the race -- that's the important thing: our Main Character.
As for Force Pushing others out of the way -- maybe Vader would do it, but the point of the PT is that Anakin and Vader are totally different. You really prefer Anakin being too lame a driver to out race these other guys, so he Force Pushes them aside so he can win? I prefer seeing the "best star pilot in the galaxy" strut his stuff. That's Anakin and not Vader. We want to see hints that Anakin can become Vader, but keep it clear that he is not on the Dark Side in any way yet.
At least, that's my interpretation.