Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27095714-20151019160123/@comment-26715739-20151020125328

RR3G&#039;hamO. wrote: Funny how the big R$ races are near the end of the game anyways. I'm in need of at least 7M to get to RTLM with only 600K & fed up of using F40 around Le Mans it's going to be a long road. The big R$ races should be near the end - because the price of things near the end is more. It doesn't really work that way though.

Payouts are fairly constant throughout on a per lap basis between different career categories (ie Elite, Master, etc). There is a difference in payout per lap between career series and bonus series.

So... RR3 gets that "bigger" payout from a combination of things:

1) Making you race for longer. The R$/lap payout is (essentially) the same as earlier on, you just race more laps.

2) Because you tend to race better (faster) cars there's also an element of being able to earn more later because you do the same number of laps more quickly due to the higher PR car (although higher PR doesn't always mean faster at Le Mans because of the top speed premium) - pushing up R$/min payout.

3) (the biggest factor) the earlier series don't use Le Mans - and Le Mans has a significantly higher payout ratio/time than other tracks. They tried to correct this imbalance in 3.4 - by reducing LM - to the cause of a major outcry. So they backed down - but only so far as to reinstate the previously out of synch payouts for Le Mans (rather than the alternate "bug fix" solution of simply moving the payouts on other tracks to parity - which would have been much better and avoided Le Mans fatigue).

It's actually pretty disheartening to win your way through to a new category (Elite, Master, etc) and still only get the same old payouts.

But this isn't really an "interesting situation"...