Talk:Unleash the Beast/@comment-31245059-20170520131201/@comment-84.24.8.99-20170520170711

I don't think it actually makes a difference.

In the One:1 event I more or less tested this theory. There was a certain speed snap, I can't remember the exact stage/race but it was at Hockenheim. People here had already confirmed that it was most likely impossible to pass until you applied certain upgrades, not because you got that much faster but because the fixed goal speed dropped after upgrading. Most of those people had all of the R$ upgrades applied right at the start of the event. I had not. So I tried if maybe my goal speed dropped just as much when I applied R$ upgrades at that point. It didn't. It only dropped enough after doing the exact same gold upgrades that the others did.

Note that was a fixed goal. Non-fixed goals can potentially go down with bot slowing, but not with upgrading, right? So in that case delaying upgrades doesn't have this use either.

However, I always do every race with the bare minimum of upgrades anyway, because I don't want the first stages to be too boring. Even without upgrades they usually are very easy so I wouldn't like it if they were even more unchallenging.