Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 6)/@comment-27469479-20160525131924/@comment-27123099-20160525185807

I ended up paying to skip Challenge 26. On Challenge 27, I got an Autocross event at Melbourne with no TC, no more than 3 skids, and no off-track ( I think). I passed it first try, but not with too much time to spare (28.688 vs. 29.037)

So, moved on to Boss Level 28, a 4 Lap Cup at Nurburgring Mullenbach with no off-track. Unfortunately, I guess I had forgotten to service the C-X75 last time, so I serviced it and watched enough ads to skip the service time. I was able to get up to around 4th or 5th place with relative ease, but the top 3 would always stay ahead of me. Thankfully, on the 4th lap, Magnus and company started running into lapped traffic. This slowed them down, but not enough for me to get the win. Having gotten to this part, I decided that spending some R$ on retries was worth it (and pretty affordable). I retried maybe 4 or 5 times (final one cost R$50k), but I just couldn't get to first, I think only once I even made it to 2nd. At this point, I was in need of servicing again. Instead, I went ahead and restored, bringing me back to Challenge 26. I did the same, skipped it, beat 27 on my 1st attempt again (28.855 vs. 29.037) and had to service and use ads to skip service time once again. On my 1st attempt off the restore, I again managed to get to about 4th place. I paid the R$6k to retry and this time I got lucky. on the 4th lap, Magnus got caught behind lapped traffic and I caught up to him at the sharp hairpin. I PITted him and was in the lead. I slowed a bit and beat Magnus by a short distance!

In my opinion, the 17GC was a decent price to pay to save me a few rounds of play down the road. Especially when I earned 25GC this morning with the daily check-in.

I'm going to continue on to see if I can make it to the next Boss level, but my thought is that I'll have to restart, just based on where my Challenge cars were previously. I have to pass this Boss level before I move on to the next level of Challenge cars. Worth giving it a shot at least though.