Talk:Front-Runner/@comment-28337401-20160515205109/@comment-27123099-20160516161958

The secret with being able to beat some races with an unserviced car is successful bot management in previous stages. I am always playing these events as if I am a much worse player than I am. I do not win races by a large distance (<50yds when possible). When allowed, I also slow down the other bot by stopping in front of them and holding them up and/or actively crashing them and spinning them out. The idea is to make the race take longer than it should and also only finishing by a short distance to make it appear as though you struggled. This tricks the game into giving you easier bots.

This worked well enough such that on the events in which I used an unserviced car, I was still able to keep up with the other bots despite a quite noticable decrease in performance. Though, even needing servicing, the Venom can still top out at 240mph (at my PR), so it was still a decent car on LeMans and allowed me to keep up with the P1 GTR's and such that I was paired up against.

Good job on completing the event, and with a pretty decent PR as well! Sounds like we had the same number of upgrades (16/26,), but my PR was slightly higher as 89.1. I just wish I'd have been able to attempt 8.5 and 8.6 with the new goals, I'm convinced I'd have been able to beat them instead of skipping them and I had to do.