Forgive me for sounding like a noob but how do some people get the little golden wheel by their names?

Win a certain amount of online games using the Wii wheel, I think it's 50. I've heard you lose it if you switch to another controller format though.

Oh ok, I thought you had to do something simmilar to what you had to do in mkds to get the stars by your name.

I think you only actually get it after 100 wins on wifi, especially since I only got it myself after that, but since it's a steering wheel, you need to be using a steering wheel (or controller held sideways) to get it by your name.

Well I knew that you had to be using the steering wheel control style. another quick related question, how do you get the stars by your name, by averaging a star or better in all of the circuits?