Talk:Federated Auto Parts 400/@comment-26470143-20150905162837/@comment-26829117-20150905185905

No, I think 5.4 is near impossible without slowing bots down. I did a cloud save and tried several different tactics. I have the Ford Fusion with just R$ upgrades and my findings :

1) spending gold made no difference, if anything it got harder so restored back to no gold upgrades 2) you go faster without assists but not fast enough and collisions are too easy, tried about 10 times, restoring each time, before giving up. I think 7th was my best 3) raced for about 30 mins with no service and losing every time. Eventually, winning bot slowed to 1:57 and I could easily do the race in 1:35 with an unserviced car and low assists

Whilst I don't like slowing bots, you have to remember that you are basically just racing yourself. The game sets the level of the bots based on your previous performance. Sometimes the fire monkeys get it wrong and make it too hard. Sometimes I think they do it deliberately to make you spend gold. This time, even that didn't work and if I didn't have a cloud restore point and knew how to slow bots down I would have felt cheated.

I'm not the best driver, I tend to race with low assists because I play mostly whilst commuting on trains and planes (it can get a bit difficult with no assists). I tend to get into B/C groups in the time trials with the best car upgraded fully but I haven't tried to do better.