Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33340837-20180423035311/@comment-208.91.114.4-20180428045815

I knocked a second off of Laguna Seca without upgrading and there is probably another second in there if I spent a few more hours on it.

Use cloud restore. Do your three runs, then cloud restore, then repeat. Drive as aggressively as you can on your first of the three runs to find out where the limits are for the 21/28 Ford. It doesn't matter if you go off track this run because you are interested in run 2 and 3 Retry's. You get a bit of a speed boost at the start of a retry over the first run. Some have contended that this isn't real, but you can see for yourself. Try to see what your speed at the line is when the lights go green. Even a few MPH, KPH difference will make at least a tenth of a second difference into the first hairpin, and you are now in the realm of where you are looking for tenth's and hundredths at each corner and straight combination.

Easier said than done.... Believe me, I've run this race hundreds of times already over the last few days. Although, the one thing that actually really helped was turning on steering assist (I started another thread about that). I managed to shave off almost .8s from my previous time in the last couple of hours by adding assists, but still need .22s more. There's definitely room for improvement, but I find it so hard to get every corner perfect on the same run. Dunno if I'm gonna be able to make it by tomorrow without upgrading.

Whereas if I upgrade for Monza, I could get in 100's of retries per hour... and I get to keep my time for 3 more weeks.