Talk:Project Impulse/@comment-80.12.39.203-20150428122113/@comment-208.184.33.66-20150428160327

Did you try starting the race and retiring before the driving starts so as not to require servicing but to get slower opponents? I did not need to do this for 7.7 and ran it with a car that needed service (19 of 34 upgrades), so I am little surprised you are having a problem. Anyway, the retire and reenter the race strategy worked well for other challenges in this series. In other words, it was easy enough to move the opposition down without actually racing and losing challenges and then waiting for service time.

You can tell when the times are moving when you retire and see what the top times are for all the other cars even though you will be listed as DNF. While the time listed when you retire basically before the race has started are not precise (a point discussed at least several times previously on other parts of this Wiki), they are representative of the direction the opponents' times are going in. That being said, with the suprior handling (and little need to use much if any assists that goes along with this), I was able to easily win 7.7 (though I cannot recall when in the race I was far enough ahead that opponents were not catching up on the straightaways).

Good luck and keep us posted.