Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20170113164227/@comment-26388545-20170113200727

Fully upgrading helps a lot, but it is still hard. You have to invest a lot of time finding the right race lines in all those no touch, no off-track, full field cup races.

I have noticed a common trend in the last 2 Gauntlets. For both of the last 2 I eventually fully upgraded the car I was trying to win (I rarely do that, but I decided that I wanted to enjoy the last 2 Gauntlet's). Anyhow, the boss races plateaued, as in they didn't get any harder after a certain point. The non-boss became brutal!

In the Season 10 Gauntlet, I had an aweful lot of trouble, even though my Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 was fully upgraded. It was relaxing to finally get to a boss race in that one!

In this last Gauntlet (season 11) I had an aweful time with the 2nd last speed snap. Both my Ferrari FF (PR 47.3) and Corvette Stingray Z51 (PR 47.1) were a hair slow while my Dezir (PR53.0) was WAY too slow. I was on the verge of upgrading my FF when I decided to try and lower the target speed. With each restore, the target speed got lower. Eventually it was below what I knew I could do and I made it with no upgrades to the FF.

I then remembered that a restore rests the field while a retry does not. Sometimes a restore will raise the target, but it is possible that losing a whole bunch and then restoring eventually slows the bots down. I am guessing that I did 4-5 restores and around 40-50 tries at the race. I only tried hard the first 5 times to see what my max was, on all other attempts I finished well below the target.