Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20190514081652/@comment-28169398-20190516194027

Also, the more people do something, the more comfortable they become at doing it.

When I used to use the AUDI R18 E-TRON QUATTRO (2015) a lot, I had it upgraded to Engine -1. I was in the 500+ times used at this level. Then a sale came along and I fully upgrade it... It took me a week or two before I could get back to setting the same lap times I had with the En-1.

Special Events are set up like this... Short goals on different tracks that don't give you a chance to adjust to the car and the track, with the added pressure of some target that makes you push more than you would... It is on purpose so that you can't get comfortable with the car, if you frame it in the context of the freemium model.

Then you win the car and you get to use it without the stress of an Event that is inherently designed to stress you out, and WOW! the car is better... NO! Car is the same. The conditions are better. You are more relaxed, have less stress, and have time to get used to the car.

ME7 has even commented that the added pressure of OMP can force him into mistakes he wouldn't make normally... That is the nature of stress' effect on performance. FM doesn't need to do anything. Your body is doing it to you... whether you want to accept that or not has nothing to do with what is actually going on.