Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-63.159.0.197-20180128040313/@comment-31567784-20180130075909

Everything that has been described is an issue with the device and its operating system, not with Real Racing 3.

Real Racing 3 does not persist because the operating system likely drops the app from the processor. This is right and additionally under Andriod the OS is looking as well into the RAM space and the age of the data there.

You can leave all apps in the background and Android will only free memory when required based on the age of the data, the oldest data will get  dynamically overwritten. So RR3 is paused or just in the background and the OS is in demand for RAM so your long running RR3 mem space is for sale due to it's age. Even if you "just" lose one block of data RR3 will have to restart and the actual race is lost.

I'm not too sure about iOS but it will function in a similar way.

Keeping the game "active" is not a bad idea when running longer races.