Talk:Light-Rider/@comment-29143710-20160718233041/@comment-28972993-20160719000758

You should at least do as much as you could without doing any upgrades. I finished stage 2 with 0 upgrades. I think stage 3, 4 and 5 should be possible with R$ only. So for the first few stages, you should have a net gain on gold. In this case, it's also good to wait for a few days and then start, because when you complete stage 3 you'll know whether to go for the car or not.

P.S. the above is also my approach for this event. I have a little over 600 gold. In the Ferrari FXX K challenge I went with this strategy and decided in the end to go for the car. Got the car with PR 87.0 whilst skipping 2 events.