Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 9)/@comment-26388545-20161024214303

3 laps at Nürburgring Müllenbachschleife. Nasty place for Boss race (challenge 24) with no touching cars or barriers and no off-track. However I decided that I wanted to win this one. 3 laps is enough time I thought. Took about 20 tries (mostly figuring out the 1st lap), but I got it. I wanted to share what I figured out in case anyone else wanted to give it a go. Of course, I could have just restarted my run. Thing is, I had the time... and I wanted the challenge!

1. The most critical place to make some progress is the very 1st corner. Take the outside line and drive it as hard as you can. I needed to come out no worse than 4th.

2. Carefully squeeze into traffic and stay on the far right heading into the S curve.

3. As you approach the sharp right corner that takes you into the narrow passage, start passing the car in front of you on the inside and brake a little late (the bot's brake earlier than is needed for this corner). Drive very close to the bot car that you are passing to widen the corner. You have to go VERY close to the wall and get back in the gas quick or he will hit you! Now you are in 3rd.

Basically, the place I mention in 3 above is the ONLY place I could make a clean pass in laps 2 & 3. As such, If you pass 1 more car per lap you will win.

Of note, sometimes doing a restore mixes up the field and you get some slightly slower cars in the front. I have noticed this in every Gauntlet. It's a lengthly process to end a run, wait for the green lights of the next run, force close, restart, restore... but sometimes it will set up a nice field to race against. I used all my retries before doing the process, so I only had to do it 3 times. I won the race my first try after my 3rd restore.