Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31654944-20180813013217/@comment-35200552-20180821030924

From what I just tried with the new update, which I just downloaded tonight, it appears it won’t work like it did in the past.

You wil have to save immediately after the good run if you want it to be an “eligible time trial submission”. So if you spend any gold it’ll be lost in order to save that specific time. And if you restore to get the gold back the time won’t be eligible, you’ll get the message I posted above. My best guess is they added this “fix” to keep players from upgrading the car with gold, getting better times and also refilling drive immediately.

So if you don’t want to spend gold on upgrades you’ll have to run the car at your current PR and those will be the times that will register unless you decide to keep the gold upgrades.