Talk:Corvette C7.R Championship/@comment-27123099-20160608152440

Just won the C7.R!

I went with a similar strategy for this event as with the recent Porsche LTS. Considering that the PR requirement is identical, it made sense that the event would be much the same as well, and it was.

My main goals were to upgrade to the required PR as quickly as possible (using ads to speed things up as available), and to utilize bot management. Not so much to make it easier, but to allow me to complete as much as possible without waiting for servicing.

This method served me well for the Porsche event and likewise for this one. I was able to complete roughly 70-75% of the races with an unserviced car. I did have a Speed Snap event early on (I can't recall which one exactly), that I could not get past with an unserviced car, even after multiple attempts. I ended up waiting out the servicing and then completing it easily after that.

From there, I was able to utilize the unserviced car all the way until 17.1 when I got stuck on the Elimination race. For the Porsche event, I managed to beat it first try with an unserviced car. This time however, I tried maybe 15 times and I could not keep from being eliminated. I'd be right on the bumper of the 7th place car every single time, but could never get lucky enough to get past. I ended up servicing the car overnight and completing the remainder of the events this morning. I went ahead and beat the remaining Drag Race and Cup events (18.1 & 18.2) while I still had a serviced car (just in case), and then I went all out on the Endurance race with an unserviced car. Managed to log 13.9mi against a 2.2mi goal.

Car is in my garage and I'm patiently waiting for the next event to start. Will use the downtime to get back to some career racing and building up my GC stockpile. With all these back to back events, I rarely seem to have time (or energy) to do any career races anymore.

Car stats: PR 86.4, 18/30 (4224222). Spent 272GC on upgrades, received 80GC in completion bonuses. So, total outlay for the car is 192GC for the upgrades (30% discount compared to full price) and the car for free! I'd naturally still rather with the car with no GC spent (as I did for so long), but I'm OK with spending a few hundred GC for a car worth multiples of that. At least now I know to plan for it as well, it was a surprise the first few times.