Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-75.78.103.8-20150723232033/@comment-26715739-20150908081936

89.98.77.215 wrote: I bet the nascar badges give you one of those awkward sponsorship deals the nascar section is polluted with. Furthermore, first installers got those nascar rewards from the start (when they started after the nascar update) and now this "great feature" is also implemented for existing drivers. No more LM 10-lappers for me, but also 150gc a month less. Well, if I did the LM races anyway, the loss would be about 60gc. And we go from 105gc a month to 125 because the last day returns 50 instead of 30 now. The only downside is that you need absurd amounts of gc to complete those nascar events. Each car requires approx 750gc which is insane, returning only 50gc plus some 25. The gold rather that fame% increase is probably a better deal - even the max 100% increase on 58800 is (slightly) less than 10 gold. But there's nothing stopping you still driving LM 10 lap each day - sure slightly less R$ but in the long run that's not so much of a worry.

The NASCAR rewards are indeed for the sponsorship deals. They'll show up in your daily bonus any time you have an incomplete set of sponsorship deals. "Early adopters" only got them straight away because we opened up the pre-season cup so quickly (and therefore had an incomplete set of sponsorship deals). So it's not a question of "implemented for existing drivers" - presumably you've got it because you just won a NASCAR car and therefore have an open series with an incomplete sponsor set.

The "sponsorship" deals in the individual series appear to be more lucrative (if you don't need R$) than the one in the pre-season cup (50 gold if you get the set for the Penske cup) - but as you say 750+ gold to upgrade to complete means it's not really that much of a bonus.

I'm not sure what the best strategy is re the sponsor deals - whether it is better to rush through the NASCAR series (so you can use the normal rewards) or to use the daily bonus to supplement. But when I did the pre-season cup it was really easy to get the sponsors from winning cup events, so didn't really see the daily bonus as adding much. Might be different with the other 4 series.