Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27109924-20160604031628/@comment-28333578-20160606163628

So, I would totally never rent but just to show how little upgrades really do if you don't have the cars...

The first image is right at the end of the round that ended yesterday. Note the time for Silverstone, since that is the only image I have with the time there.

This next image shows an initial time for Daytona in the Venom and the reduction on Silverstone.

The final image is after upgrades on all cars.

So, with the Venom, I upgraded from 19/26 upgrades to 23/26 and took .444 seconds off the time. That time kept me in Group E. (that has a lot to do with my never driving the Venom; I won the car in the challenge and I have driven it only a time or two since). At Monza, the GT-R GT1 went from 15/20 upgrades (max R$) to Fully Upgraded and the time went down 1.510 seconds. That took me from Group H to Group G. At SIlverstone, the GT-R GT1 went from 15/20 (Max R$) to Fully Upgraded and the time went down .543 seconds. Took me from Group H to Group G. Finally, at Suzuka, I used the basic F1, went from no upgrades to 17/20 and the time went down 2.506 seconds, moving me from Group K (bottom 10% of all racers) to Group J (bottom 20%). Total time went from 3:38.905 to 3:33.902 and that moved me from Group I to Group H.

With the cars that I have, even if I were to rent the NISMO for Monza, I would think the best I could take off the time would be 6 or 7 seconds, moving me from Group H to Group G...so a 95GC investment for a 25,000 R$ return.

Without the top end cars, and knowing how to drive them, there is little that you can do to get anywhere near the upper groups.