Talk:Exclusive Reveal/@comment-80.12.39.135-20150210193917/@comment-208.184.141.147-20150210204102

For the person who does not want to know - don't read on.

I believe it refers to the technique of shutting the program in the middle of a race and then restarting it. If you do this, your car will not suffer any damage as this is assessed at the end of the race. This can be used rather than retiring (for which your car will suffer damage) to keep running many races to tell whether you will win. If you are not going to win (or have gotten a red banner that you have failed some requirement of a challenge like staying on track), you do this to be able to delay having to wait for repair time on your car. Generally you reduce repair time to damage incurred while actually winning races/challenges.

This is similar to just restoring a backup from the cloud when you lose. However, the cloud backup has the further benefit that if you were doing a time trial you get back your little blue counters to the way they were when you backed up to the cloud. Because these are taken at the beginning of time trials, forcing the game to close and restart will not preserve those. This was more relevant in the Ferrari challenges, for example, where some were time trials.