Talk:Speedrush TV Challenge - Season 3/@comment-26388545-20160104154336/@comment-208.184.141.147-20160104160610

While I agree that Bot Slowing did not work, I was stubborn and beat 3.2 without any upgrades.

This required me to keep retrying the races and getting luck with hitting the Launch button before I actually registered that the light had changed to green. I false started a number of times doing this, but those times I could actually get lucky and hit the Launch button at just the right time I could run the race at about 10.7 or so, which was enough to beat all three of the Drag Race Bots. I got disqualified for 3 false starts in a drag race (and learned that it it cumulative per race and not for each leg of the drag race - nevre had occasion to know that before), but eventually got it to work.

Now I am not suggesting that everyone try this given (1) it took some time to do successfully and (2) you may need the upgrades for future ball buster parts of this Challenge. On the other hand, if the last couple of Challenges are any indication, spending for upgrades may not be cheaper than skipping. Sure the Body upgrade was cheaper than skipping this race, but they only get more expensive and there is no guarantee that Body 2 & 3 (or Exhause 2, 3 & 4) will be enough for what comes later. I specifically did not run 3.5 yet so I can consider whether I want to try and get some of those upgrades going or not.

For what it is worth, even after beating 3.2 with my R$ only upgrades, I was in the red from all the drag race runs but was able to easily complete 3.3 and 3.4.

Thanks to all for their input; as always, this Wiki is a great resource.