Talk:The Daytona 500/@comment-26388545-20160222013249

Got car WITH LOTS of gold upgrades. Still took racing strategy though.

UPGRADES: I had already done all R$ possible, now I did 1 gold upgrade in all 7 categories at a cost of 301 gold. That took me to PR 54.1. Once I do all the next R$ upgrades I will at about PR 56.7 (depending on rounding). I then looked through to the end of the series that winning the car unlocked. Max PR needed is 57.0. So you have to spend 301+ one more gold upgrade (about 360 gold for 100% completion). If you have or want to do this cheaper, you could wait the 12 hours while you apply some of the next level R$ upgrades. However, some of the next level upgrades take one day to apply and I was worried that I would not win the car.

STRATEGY TO WIN RACE: Push the car in front of you and wait for the car behind you to catch up. You have to keep that car behind you for the entire race. At some point you need to have the car behind you and hang the car in front of you out to dry so that it loses your push. I was able to do this on the short straight just after the first heavily banked corner. You then need to get very low on the inside of the next heavenly bank corner because you don't want to push the lead car. The car behind you will push you very hard. He was literally right on my bumper from the last heavenly bank corner until the finish line.

Of all the races in the series I actually found this one the hardest!!