Talk:Tour Auto Speciale/@comment-27554970-20160928010725/@comment-28753807-20160928020148

I think for me they were about even. 7.2 and 7.3 I took 24 minutes to complete .2 and an hour to complete .3, but it takes longer to get around Le Mans. I didn' count how many retries.

As for cost, I upgraded to 1333232, one engine. That was my final upgrade pattern. In the last Gauntlet, when they took away my grip, I was a basket case. Take away my top speed, I didn't mind, take away brakes, no big deal. Grip knocked me out, so I decided I would favor grip in my future purchases. My pattern cost me 187 total. That's cheaper than the Engine route, but if I'd done the engine route, I may have saved more than I did with the grip route.

The reason I think grip is so important to me is, our strength against the 'bots is in the turns. They abide by strict braking rules and strict off-track rules. We bend them to take advantage. There are times when I'm driving a really well endowed, I mean more fully upgraded car and I can pull away fom the others in straights, but most of my cars are barely upgraded enough to win the event they come in. So, I win in the turns, not the straights. I shoot out to the front, using the early turns and hold everyone back, blocking in straights and stopping in choke points, which are normally turns where the track is narrower. Meaning, not turns with really wide track. This means I need grip! It's nice to have a balance. I need grip a little bit more than I need speed.

If I didn't have the benefit of the tips from China, I might have had a harder time with the Endurance, because the track is so long, and the method to win isn't as straight-forward. The player in China stated he took an hour to come up with the strategy, two on the first straight, low damage and third (speed req.) on the second time in Mulsanne. If I'd had to have done that I'd have taken 2 hours to complete it!