Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-35997227-20190312034141/@comment-26388545-20190312220907

I can answer this one from some painful lessons. You do not want to leave the game for one second! You might get away with it 95% of the time, but that doesn't matter when you just lost 3+ hours of racing!

USUALLY, you can minimize the game for 5-10 minutes and get away with it. I would severely recommend against that though! If you minimize the game and leave it that way overnight, it will reload when you try to resume.

I do what Hawkize does above, but I add another feature. Before even starting the race I turn on a handy app simply called "Keep Screen On". I don't even start the race until I know I don't need any other part of my phone for quite some time. And I literally mean nothing; no texting, no phone calls, no emails, NOTHING! Then when I want to take a break, I pause the race and use the Android app mentioned to semi-lock my screen. That way I can't accidentally press on pause, I actually have to do a big swipe to unlock the screen. I once had a race end early by sticking my phone in my pocket with "keep screen on" running but not the semi-lock feature. I guess body heat unlocked it.

I recently did 600 laps at Porsche short track including a 6-hour sleep in the middle of it. Using the method mentioned here I had no trouble.