Talk:Open Sky Challenge/@comment-4941885-20161201162650/@comment-32796836-20170807170251

I think this is true in theory, but you can save yourself much aggrevation by spending 8 gold to get the car up to 61 and do 13.3 instead of 12.2. You need a maximum of 2 Atom v8 (180+ mph) in your race in order to achieve 3rd, and the number of v8s is random. Pretty much all the time I had at least 4 in which case you have no chance. By the time I had only 2 (after at least 50 tries) car needed servicing again and the opportunity was lost. After servicing I got 5 Atom v8s again, at which point I spent the 8 gold and moved on.