Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-29749141-20161004205506/@comment-27170954-20161005003909

all of us running WTT with a car that is A) not the faststest in the group and B) not fully upgraded actaully makes it easier for players that meet these conditions to be ranked in the top group.

the mass of people that run WTT with cars that don't meet these conditions cause the average times to drop and the distribution becomes positively squewed. As the week moves on, the time thresholds for being in the gold-paying brackets drop, making it easier for folks that meet these two conditions to be rewarded for spending their gold.

WTT is mechanism for FM/EA to reward the highest-spending players - just like the new exclusive series. Whether or not this is intentional can be debated, but this is how it works.

I have not investigated myself, but i'd wager a GC or two that ALL the folks in the highest WTT groupings have fully upgrades on the fastest cars in the trials.

Moral of the story: If you don't meet conditions A and B, don't run WTT.