Talk:The DAYTONA 500/@comment-32478719-20160301225318/@comment-27123099-20160301232627

That is the unfortunate part about getting to opportunity to win these expensive cars. Even though you are playing to win the car(s) for essentially free, there's still the cost for upgrades which can be quite prohibitive.

This is just the nature of the more expensive cars in this game, all of them have upgrades which are in the 6 figure range and/or cost a large amount of GC. It makes it tough for a new(ish) players to the game to compete since it's so hard to gain that much R$ that quickly. This does get easier as you progress into the higher levels of the game however, R$ becomes much easier to win. For instance (granted, with the help of the 200% R$ check-in bonus and the use of the Manager), I was able to win over 1million R$ for a single race (Endurance Kings 10 Lap Race at Le Mans). Although, even without any bonuses, that race still pays over 150k R$.

You can see the list for the most profitable races here: http://rr3.wikia.com/wiki/RR3_Wiki:Most_Profitable_Races

This may help you to determine which races you can use to mine for R$ and work your way up the chain to more and more profitiable races.