I actually completely get that with Smash Bros. I've experienced something like that, but it was with a driving simulator compared to a real car. Because the driving simulator lacked any kind of rumbling (or sound), despite being done from inside a real car with controls and all that, I found it a lot easier to accidentally speed in the simulator whereas I'm usually very good at maintaining my speed in a real car. It would probably be like that too in any game with rumble if I were to turn that off.
It's kinda strange, but that's how it is! >_>
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