GRID Legends

All Bound For MU MU Land - mine's a 99 ...

This is classic Codemasters/GRID. Achievements with long grinds for no reason.

You have to choose the Beltra Frostbite for this achievement works

Would be worth noting it will not pop when you hit 99 miles DURING an event. You must finish the event after hitting 99+ for it to pop.

It's also worth calling out that in their usual fashion, Codemasters has screwed up the basic math. 99 miles on the given track length of 0.85 miles should equate to about 117 laps. I've now done 112 laps after completing all of the career races, and the tracker is still only at 85%. So, expect to do more laps than you think you need to...

What an absolute needless achievement. The person responsible for this should be tarred and feathered.

Edit: this achievement alone takes about 2 hours. Annoying.

This is a very British achievement, for anyone who is wondering why it even exists... a Flake 99 is possibly the most iconic ice cream in the UK, hence 99 miles in the ice cream van. It's a joke achievement.

I ran multiple laps of this track with the default tuning settings for the Frostbite and my best laps were in the 49 sec. range. I then changed the following settings and was averaging 45 sec. laps, with my best lap being 44.438:

Gear ratio: Max (long)
Springs: Min (soft)
Dampers: Min (soft)
ARB: Max (firm)

For dry weather the above seemed to increase overall responsiveness as well as stability when landing the jumps. I found that I was getting consistently faster lap times after upgrading the car to the highest tier health stat, although most likely that's a result of simply becoming more efficient at the course from hotlapping,

This achievement is still a massive grind but shaving off a few seconds per lap while making the car a bit easier to drive should help mitigate it some.