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Basic Bronze
Win all the Prestige events
How to unlock the Basic Bronze achievement in Need for Speed - Definitive Guide
thatNoseyParker
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20 Sep 2017 20:58
If you were discouraged from trying to get this because of the gold one, fear not, the bronze times/scores are mostly pretty easy given the right cars.
Using the Huracán (full elite and drift tuned, including spoiler and drift tyres) for anything involving drift score (Drift Contest, Drift Trial, Touge), and the Beck Kustoms F132 for anything speed related (Sprint, Circuit, Time Trial), I was getting bronze on most events first try even with a couple of scrapes (i.e. crashes or losing a drift by hitting the barrier).
I found the most annoying events to be the Touge and Drift Contests, due to other racers getting in the way. However, they sometimes prove helpful by pushing your drift a bit further or to use as a buffer to avoid a scrape. Regarding the former, don’t worry about being in first place all of the time, the drifts are more important and as long as you’re at least middle of the pack, you should be more than capable of winning.
A couple notes on drifting if you’re new to it, or new to max drift tuning: - Feather the gas - If you’re concerned you’re going to hit something or need to straighten up, LET GO of everything with maybe a little flicking of the LS - If you’ve got a wide bend, initiate the brake early to maximise the drift, the longer it goes on, the faster the points climb! - Using nitrous at about the halfway mark can extend your drift by a couple thousand points
These are a couple notes from my experience since no one had a guide here. If there’s any other tips you think I should mention, or want me to try go into more detail, comment below.
Best of luck!
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11 Comments
how many events are there?
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By gmurda33 on 26 Jan 2018 13:00
i think there are 41, thanks for the guide. i will be trying these shortly.
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By gmurda33 on 29 Jan 2018 12:40
Yeah, there's forty-one total, eight in each of the five classes, plus the big face-off against all your in-game friends at the end.
I might give this another try soon, only missing this and the Gold Prestige achievement for completion, and both achievements have HIGH ratio points on TA, this guide seems hopeful.
I'll let you know how it turns out.
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By Crater Bob on 29 Sep 2018 07:34
I guess it didn't turn out well for u crater bob haha
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By iBar13 on 05 Jul 2019 10:35
DON'T LISTEN TO thatNoseyParker: HE WILL NEVER 100% THIS GAME!!!
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By on 25 Apr 2020 17:06
To TA Mods, ignore iBar13, we're friends, he's just joking. Do NOT classify as a personal attack.
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By Crater Bob on 25 Apr 2020 17:55
Hey, is there any way the game shows the times you need to beat in those races? Just drove three of those races and been first in each of them, but it just told me I failed the Elite Challenge.. Can't find any timeboards or something else.
For example in the first race of the Speed list it just says "Win the race and reach the Bronze-Goal to move on." but it doesn't tell me what is the goal for it.
EDIT: Nevermind, been too concentrated during the races to look in the upper right corner of the screen. XD
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By xDoovah on 04 Dec 2020 16:44
One day, I'll have the competency to beat this. One day.
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By FarmYardGaming1 on 22 May 2023 19:38
You can do it FarmYard, I believe in you!
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By thatNoseyParker on 22 May 2023 22:01
Conquistas para jogar a vida toda em busca de consegui-las
This achievement is by no means easy and will test your patience so let's get started. This is by far one of the hardest completions in the Xbox One/PS4 era of games. Really pleased to get this done.
Firstly massive credit to waszkagg from PSN Profiles. I don't think I would've been able to complete this achievement without the car build. I tried a few other builds online and couldn't get the hang of them. The only change I made to the base build was equipping the Action Nitrous 15lb Capacity on the Lamborghini Huracan LP 610-4 (2015).
First off, it's best to be in a private lobby as you will not encounter other players. To do that, press -> Settings -> Game Settings -> Play Alone. I did all of these events using only manual gears for both the Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 2.8 (1973) and the Lamborghini Huracan LP 610-4 (2015).
Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 2.8 (1973) All elite parts Time Refill Nitrous 15lb Capacity Tyres E/T-G5-XTREME-GRP Turbocharger Elite-TC4-D-Race Body Kit RWB Option II Spoiler RWB V2
Lamborghini Huracan LP 610-4 (2015) All elite parts Action Nitrous 15lb Capacity Tyres E/T-G5-XTREME-GRP Supercharger Elite Tune-SC-V4-RACE Body Kit Super Trofeo Spoiler N/A
Handling Tuning
Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 2.8 (1973) Front Tyre Pressure -3 Rear Type Pressure -1 Steer Response -2 Steer Range -3 Brake Drifting Assist On Drift Stability On Launch Control On Differential -2 Downforce +2 Brake Strength - 3 Brake Bias -2 Tyre Traction More Handbrake Strength -2 Spring Stiffness +5 Sway Bars +4 Nitrous -5 Manual Gears On
Lamborghini Huracan LP 610-4 (2015) Front Tire Pressure +5 Rear Tire Pressure -4 Steer Response -5 Steer Range -5 Braking Drift Assist ON Drift Stability Assist OFF Launch Control OFF Differential -5 Downforce -5 Brake Strength -5 Brake Bias -5 Tire Traction MORE Handbrake Strength -5 Spring Stiffness +3 Sway Bars +3 Nitrous -5 Manual Gears On
When going after this, I recommend you only do all the races or drifting first before trying to get gold on the different event types, as you’ll be more in tune with the car I found. Also if you're having trouble with a certain event, recommend taking a break and going back to it later. I had a lot of trouble with Torque Of The Town and Mental Block.
Gold Medal Notes
In the following section, there is an in-depth overview of each event with what I found challenging, and what I did to overcome those challenges.
Horses For Courses
The hardest section of this race was the first corner with the petrol station. Found it challenging to find the right racing line to go through the gas station at high speed. I recommend drifting around the corner in 4th gear and using Nitrous to accelerate out. The mini chicane can be quite challenging if you don’t have a good line going into it. Recommend lifting off the accelerator to make it easier.
The last corner can be quite challenging, I recommend staying in 6th/7th gear going flat out to the finish line.
Talk The Torque
The first tricky section for this race is the start as the AI can sometimes get in your way, recommend driving left of them before the tunnel so you can get a good start. The key to this event is to try not to hit the wall too much on the highway as it will slow you down a little bit. After crossing the bridge and going into the right turn, I recommend going into 4th gear and drifting around the corners for the final section.
Turbo Ducking
This one took me a while to do, at the start of the race you go through a tunnel and the AI can get in your way sometimes. For the first left-hand corner with the barrier, I recommend being in 4th gear to take that corner. Towards the end of the race, you will take a tight left turn, just after this I recommend staying left of the cars as they sometimes turn right on you.
Hungry As A Manticore
This event didn’t take me long to do. The first tricky section of this race I found was the corner at checkpoint 2, try not to hit the wall much as it will slow you down. Perform a nice handbrake drift for checkpoint 5 whilst maintaining high speed in 4th gear. For checkpoint 10, you’ll want to be as far right as possible and take the corner flat out in 7th gear. Use some nitrous on the exit to get the revs back up if need be.
For checkpoints 11-20 is all along the highway so watch out for traffic. At checkpoint 21, you’ll want to go down to 4th gear and drift all the way around to checkpoint 23. At checkpoint 29, it will be a long right-hand corner. Recommend going down to 5th gear here to increase the stability of the car. For checkpoints 31-36 is all along the highway again so take all this flat out. For checkpoint 37, you’ll be going through a left-hand tunnel, take this flat out in 7th gear.
Checkpoint 28 can be tricky as it’s quite narrow, with other cars around.
Torque Of The Town
This race gave me a lot of trouble at the start of doing all these races. I highly recommend leaving this until one of the last racing events you do as you’ll be more in tune with the car by this point. This race is all about brake drifting at high speeds as it will save you loads of time. Brake drifting basically helps you turn for corners where you would lose a lot of time by going off the throttle normally. I was losing a lot of time on checkpoints 2-4 and checkpoints 15-22.
Maniac Or Master?
The main problem with this event is the traffic as they like to turn on you. The key to this event is to be in the right gear around the fast corners and maintain a high-top speed around the whole lap. You can lose a lot of time if you graze the wall slightly. For the first corner, I recommend being in 5th gear.
Cj-Tastic
Found this event pretty easy, took me less than 30 minutes of trying. The key to this event is to maintain a high-top speed around the whole race. For the tunnel at the start recommend going off the accelerator in 7th gear to maintain your speed. The car can porpoise a lot in this race as the road is uneven and changes elevation after the tunnel.
Business Or Pleasure?
This took me a few days to complete as this event as it has lots of tight turns. I recommend using 3rd gear using Nitrous out of the turn. I recommend you try and overtake all the AI cars before the 2nd turn. This race is also in the hills just like Torque Of The Town, however, there are more straight to utilise the top speed of the Porsche 911 RSR. Also having the right racing line is a must for this race as it can affect the flow of things. There are lots of long corners in this one too.
Find Your Groove
Took me a little while to do this one, as I was struggling to get the hang of drifting. I recommend using the drifting build from waszkagg from PSN Profiles. For this event try and get used to drifting in a straight line to earn bonus points. Also using the full width of the road will help on this one.
Use It Lose It
For this event, I recommend going as far forward as possible before starting so that you can get ahead of the other cars easily. You will want to be in 1st place for most of this race for the bonus multiplier. The AI is quite fast on this race along the straights, recommend saving your nitrous for long straights and maintaining drifts for longer. You will also want to do some brake drifting in a straight line to get some bonus points when you have a decent lead.
Wide And Tight
Found this one quite tough, would recommend leaving this until one of the last drifting events. The hardest part about this event I think is the first sector where it’s all close quarters, you’ll want to remain in 2nd gear throughout this section and try not to hit the wall.
At the start immediately reverse and do a quick spin for about 1000 points. Next, go down the road that’s behind you to get some distance. Once you have sufficient distance, start accelerating into the car park and brake drifting in the area where you started in between the small building and parked cars. You will get around 5000 points or so which will be great early on. From checkpoints 2-10 this area is quite narrow but there are some parts where the road expands. Recommend brake drifting on these sections to get some bonus score. Each brake drift will get you about 4000 points.
Once you reach checkpoint 10, drift onto the road on your right, a good drift here will get you about 15,000 – 20,000 bonus points. Next, reverse down the road a bit so you can get some extra speed. When you reach checkpoint 11, continue drifting down the main road instead of following the path initially. By this point, you should be on about 170,000 points or so.
From checkpoints 11-17 you’ll want to continuously perform brake drifts in quick succession. At checkpoint 16, I was still 30,000 or so points off the gold requirement, so having a good drift for the final two corners is paramount.
Nocturnable
This took me a little while to do, an easy way to get some bonus score for this event is to drift around corners that are close to the waypoint on the road. At the start just before checkpoint 1, drift into the left corner. A good drift will get you about 14,000 points. From here continue along the route chaining drift together to keep your score up.
At checkpoint 5, drift to the left before continuing to get some more points. Before going to checkpoint 6, drift towards the right to get some more points. By this point, you’ll want to be on about 135,000 – 145,000 score. Continue through the event by chaining drifts together, once you reach checkpoint 8, drift to the road on the right to get some more score.
Next drive back to where checkpoint 7 was and continue drifting. After passing checkpoint 8, on your left, you will see an entrance to a car park. Drift your way into the car pack to get some more points. At checkpoint 11, drift to the left to get some more points. By this point, you’ll want to be on about 230,000 – 235,000 score. For checkpoints 11-12, drift in a straight line to get the last bit of score you need.
Clamping Down
The key to this event is to brake drift in a straight line to maintain your score. After the 3rd checkpoint, there’s a small offroad section to the right where you can get some more points. I recommend staying towards the front of the pack for this one too as the AI can get in your way. Would recommend trying this one after you’ve done a few gold medal drift events.
Push Upstairs
We’ll be using the same strategy as we did for the Nocturnable drift event by drifting on roads close to the waypoint. First off, reverse off the line to get some more speed. Just after the archway, drift to the road on the right. Next do the same for the road on the left side of the archway before checkpoint 1.
Just after checkpoint 1, drift into the car park on your left at a decent speed to get some more bonus points. After checkpoint 2, drift to the right side where the gas station is. By this point, you will be on about 30,000 – 35,000 points. Continue brake drifting in a straight line up to checkpoint 5, before drifting left, continue along the main road for a bit to get some more bonus score.
Before the right turn for checkpoint 6, continue down the main road drifting from side to side to get more score. You will have about 70,000 points for now. Continue through the tunnel, before checkpoint 8, drift onto the road on the right side to get some bonus points. Before going into the car park for checkpoint 9, continue drifting along the main road a bit. Whilst in the car park, make sure to drift around each individual tree to get some bonus points, each tree will get you about 5,000 – 6,000 bonus score.
Before exiting the car park, drift in the left direction to get some bonus points. For checkpoint 15 drift to the left side to get some bonus points. By this point, you will be on about 200,000 score. For the next section of the event, you’ll want to keep chaining drifts together on the return run down the tunnel. Once out of the tunnel you can drift towards the right to get some bonus points. By this point, you should have over 250,000.
The main issue I had with this event was the NPC traffic sometimes got in the way.
Japhet’s Full Flick
This time trail didn’t take me long to do. At the start of the race, I recommend brake drifting into the long right-hand corners to maintain speed. For the section where you go around the small buildings, I recommend staying in 3rd gear whilst drifting around the buildings. At checkpoint 28, I recommend driving across the car park as it will save you a lot of time.
At checkpoint 38, you can just stick to the main road to get the checkpoint. For the last part of the race where you’re driving back onto the highway, I recommend brake drifting in 4th/5th gear for the long-left corners to maintain a good speed.
Mental Block
This was the last event I did for drifting. This will test everything you’ve learnt about drifting as there’s a mixture of tight turns, long flowing corners and some offroad sections. This took me ages to do. Being in tune with the car is paramount for this event as you’ll need to do a lot of brake drifting in the hill section before the tunnel.
Before checkpoint 1 you’ll want to be already brake drifting from side to side in 3rd gear. This will give you a nice slingshot around the corner. Once you go towards the tunnel immediately use the hand brake to rotate the car to the left for the next corner. This area can be quite tricky as there will be traffic about. Feels amazing doing the old switcheroo on the traffic to get around them. Continue onwards onto checkpoint 5, by now you should be on about 100,000 points or so. From here continue brake drifting from side to side when you can to get more bonus points.
Once you’re past checkpoint 9, I recommend switching to 4th gear and start brake drifting at high speed. When attempting this initially, I wasn’t completing the race in time. Made up a lot of time by using 4th gear in this section. Once at checkpoint 11 you should be at about 180,000 points or so, switch back to 3rd gear for the uphill section, brake drifting from side to side to get more score.
On the return run down the hill, use the same strategy of brake drifting from side to side on the straights and use the handbrake for the long sweeping corners. Once you reach checkpoint 28, you should be on about 460,000 points or so. The next part of the race is through the tight and twisty turns of Ventura Bay. Try and avoid the pavement here if you can as it is not very good to drift on.
For checkpoint 46, you’ll want to be on about 600,000 points or so. At checkpoint 51, you will be in an area with loads of shipping containers. Recommend being in 2nd gear for this part. Also recommend drifting to the left slightly before going over the ramp to get some more bonus points. For checkpoint 62, recommend switching to 2nd gear here and brake drift from side to side. By this point, you should be on about 710,000 points or so.
For checkpoint 71, you will be drifting into an alleyway, try not to hit the wall on your left. For checkpoint 76, you will be drifting around some park benches and a tree. Recommend using 3rd gear for this. Noticed that I was getting a fair bit more score in 3rd gear vs 2nd gear. Once at checkpoint 83, you will be in a large alleyway with a few lorries parked up on the right side. Use brake drifting in this area to get more points, this also leads to a very nice drift at checkpoint 85.
By this point, you should be on about 830,000 points or so with 15 seconds or so left on the clock. For the last part of this drift event, brake drift as much as you can to cross the line.
In The Driver’s Seat
This race didn’t take me long either, most of the race uses the same roads as Maniac Or Master. After checkpoint 5 I recommend sticking to the left side of the road to save some time. Before reaching checkpoint 8, make sure you’re on the right side of the road. For checkpoint 16 I recommend going into 4th/5th gear for that corner. This event is all about maintaining your top speed throughout the race.
Red Makes It Faster
This was another easy race I thought, key to this one is to maintain a high speed in the hill section whilst drifting.
Tanel’s Leap
The most important things for this race are acceleration, racing line, and drifting. The key is to maintain a good flow of driving as there are lots of left and right drifts in quick succession. Brake drifting is good for this race as there are a few long drifts where you don’t need to tap the hand brake as you can just brake drift. The only thing that held me back a little bit was the traffic sometimes.
The turn after checkpoint 22 gave me a bit of trouble as a dip in the road could unsettle the car. It can also be a bit hard to see the oncoming traffic with the sky in the way. Recommend holding off the accelerator for this corner and brake drifting.
Blue Kobra Blitz
This one didn’t take me long to do, for most of this event you’ll want to be in 2nd gear and keep chaining small drifts together to maintain score. Recommend maintaining a long drift for the long left-hander just after checkpoint 5. This event is also timed so you don’t really have much chance to drift off the course too much. Having action nitrous for this event is great also with you drifting so much the nitrous recharges fast.
Stagger Your Swagger
The main strategy for this one is to get into first place as quickly as possible and maintain a good gap to the other racers throughout the race, as they send to crash into you a lot in the long drifting corners. The AI is quite fast along the straights on this one too. You will need to utilise high-speed brake drifting in 4th gear in some sections.
A Legend’s Wheels
The hardest part about this race I think is checkpoints 13-16 as you can lose a bit of time if you’re not in the right gears whilst drifting around the left-hand corners. Took me a fair few tries as there’s sometimes traffic in your way.
Also, the turn at checkpoint 20 can be a bit challenging as you travel fast in this section. You can cut across the pavement if you need to but watch out for the trucks on the right side.
Remastered
Struggled with this one for a little while and had a lot of bad luck with NPC spawns and the police. Before starting the event, I recommend going forwards and to the left. This spot will allow you to easily get past the other opponents before the first turn most of the time. Recommend using all of your nitrous in the first drift sequence as you’ll get a bit more score compared to not using nitrous. For the left hairpin, recommend drifting in 2nd gear and praying to the RNG gods that the other racers don’t hit you into the wall.
For the 2nd part of the lap, race up to 4th gear and go down to 3rd to take the next right turn via brake drifting. At the last part of the lap, best to brake drift into the left-hander to complete the lap. This corner can be a bit tricky at first to brake drift as it’s quite narrow. Sometimes during this race police cars may spawn, recommend going off the gas if they appear in front of you as their movement is sporadic upon spotting you.
After completing the first lap, having about 105,000-110,000 is a good starting point. For the remainder of the laps whilst the timer is going down, use the same strategy for the remainder of the event.
Components Parts
The start of this race can be quite tricky as the other cars are in your way, ideally, you want to overtake 2-3 cars before you turn right as you will have fewer cars blocking your path into the tunnel. The turn at checkpoint 15 can be quite tricky as the road is bumpy. Recommend slowing down to 5th gear for this corner.
Moonlight And Mountains
This didn’t take long either, the strategy for this one is to get into first place as quickly as possible. Between checkpoints 9-12, recommend doing small brake drifts on the bridge in this section to maintain your score.
Threading The Needle
This took me a little while to do as I had a lot of bad luck with the AI crashing into stuff, as they would all be far from each other which affected the bonus multiplier. At the start, I recommend not going for about half a second or so, you will want to do a brake drift at checkpoint 1 to get a nice drift around the first corner. For the tight hairpins in this area, I recommend taking those in 2nd gear initially and back to 3rd gear as the AI is quite slow on these parts I found. You don’t want to get too far ahead of the AI as you’ll lose the score multiplier.
By checkpoint 9 a good first sector will get you about 235,000 points or so. For the downhill section recommend maintaining the same speed as the other racers.
Fish Out Of Water
Found this race really hard initially. The hardest part for me was getting the first corner right. I recommend being in 4th gear and using the handbrake to turn sharply for this one. For checkpoint 8 of the lap, I recommend being on the right side of the road to avoid the bump in the road as this will sometimes crash your car.
Ready, Set, Drift
This didn’t take me too long to do, key to this one is to stay near the cars so you get a high multiplier The AI drives quite fast on this one, so recommend maintaining their speed throughout.
Skill Or Eskil?
This took me a little while to do, the main problem with this event is the corners before the tunnel and the right-hand corner before the finish line. For the corners before the tunnel, you’ll want to be in 6th gear and go down into 4th to drift the rest.
For the corner at the end of the race, you’ll want to be in 5th gear and drift. When you get to the top go down into 4th gear and accelerate towards the finish line. You’ll want to avoid the wall here as it will lose you a lot of speed.
Lock It Down
This was the hardest drifting event for me, as I had lots of bad luck with the traffic, you only have 3 minutes for this event, so you need to average about 140,000-150,000 score per minute. On a good run, you’re looking at doing close to 3 laps of the circuit.
Before starting, I recommend reversing as far back as possible for you to get decent speed so you can drift in 2nd gear into the first corner. Keep drifting from side to side in 2nd until you get to the next corner and change to 3rd gear and use some nos. From here I was mainly in 3rd gear for the remainder of the race. Recommend saving you nitrous for the tight sections as it will help you keep the drift going, especially the last sector before the long left-hander at the end of the lap.
Maintaining a good gap between the other cars in the race is essential also as they can trip you up as they sometimes crash on their own. I recommend leaving this for one of the last drift events to do as you’ll need proper throttle control for this event. Felt satisfying to finally get this done.
One In Many
This took me a little while to do as I had a lot of bad luck with the traffic, especially at the start of the race. The oncoming traffic would be blocked from view by the tyre smoke of the other opponents so watch out for that. At the start, you’ll want to get into 1st position as fast as possible before the first turn. The first turn of this race is quite narrow so recommend using 2nd gear for this one. For the remainder of the race, you’ll want to stay in first place ideally so that the other racers don’t get in your way.
For the remainder of the lap, you’ll want to be in 3rd gear for brake drifting. Along the back straight, you’ll want to go up to 4th gear to get some good top speed for the final corner.
Chasing Devils
The main issue I had with this event was the other racers as they would crash out and the whole pack would be spread out. You will want to stay near the pack of cars to get a good multiplier for most of this drift event. Drifting wise this event was nice to drift along the open roads. Try and get a few brake drifts in before the first corner.
Stanley Shakedown
This race didn’t take me long to get gold. The key to this race a maintaining a consistent flow between the different drifting sections. One problem I did have sometimes, there would be a van parked in the middle of the road at the first corner just after the petrol station. Staying in 5th gear between checkpoints 15-19 saved a lot of time.
We Go on Three?
This didn’t take me long to get gold on, we will be using the same strategy as Nocturnable and Push Upstairs. At the start reverse backward a bit to get some good speed. Just before checkpoint 1, drift to your right into the offroad section to get some early points. Just before checkpoint 3, drift into the small area on your right where the bollards are. Whilst at checkpoint 4, drift into the road on the right side before continuing.
At checkpoint 7, drift to your left onto the bridge to get some bonus points. Before the left turn of checkpoint 8, keep chaining small drifts together along the main road to get more points. Just before checkpoint 13, you will be in front of your safe house. Drift onto the bridge on your right for more points. Before checkpoint 14, drift onto the road on the left side. Just before checkpoint 15, drift onto the bridge on your right side to get more points. Just after checkpoint 15, drift onto the road on your right.
At checkpoint 17, continue brake drifting down the main road before turning right. For checkpoints 18-20, continue performing small brake drifts to increase your points.
Go Big Or Go Busted
This race didn’t take long to get gold either. The main issue I had was learning the track as I hadn’t played the race in a while. The race a quite bumpy with the Porsche so watch out. You’ll want to get ahead of all the other cars before checkpoint 3. For checkpoints 17-21, you’ll want to be in 4th gear and brake drifting for this part. The only tricky corner is the corner after checkpoint 28, recommend going off the throttle for this one. I crashed a bit into the wall which slowed me down.
Maximum Attack
This drifting event didn’t take me long to do, get into first place at the start and stay in first position throughout most of the race. At the start of the race try and keep your drift combo going all the way until checkpoint 5, a good drifting run will get you about 210,000 points by this point which is great.
For checkpoints 6 and 7, recommend brake drifting in 4th gear by sticking to the road. Just after checkpoint 8, a police car will most of the time spawn on your left in this area so watch out for that.
Nothing To See Here
This race didn’t take me too long to do, the only tricky part for this race I think is the start having to navigate past all the other cars can be quite tricky. Recommend brake drifting to get around most of them. Ideally, you’ll want to be ahead of all of them before checkpoint 3. The next section I found tricky was checkpoints 9 and 10. This part of the race is quite bumpy so recommend holding off the accelerator here.
The last section of this race I found challenging was the tunnel after checkpoint 12. I recommend staying in 5th gear whilst exiting the tunnel and going off the throttle to control the car easier.
Assume The Position
This was another easy race I thought, didn’t take me too long. The key to this is to not get caught up with the other cars at the start. Ideally, you’ll want to try and overtake all the cars by checkpoint 7. Recommend brake drifting for the long corners on this race.
Angels Can’t Catch Devils
This race took me a little bit to do. The first tricky part for me was the right-hand corner at checkpoint 3, recommend going into 4th gear and drifting to get a good exit. Another hard section I thought was checkpoint 8. The road in this area is quite bumpy, recommend driving left of the tree for a better racing line that leads to checkpoint 9. For checkpoints 10-12 recommend using 5th gear and brake drifting around the building, recommend going down to 4th gear for checkpoint 13.
I Am The Law
This race was pretty hard as I had loads of issues with crashing into the traffic. For checkpoint 24 a police car tends to spawn most of the time on the left. Recommend getting as close to the wall on the right as possible to avoid crashing into the police car.
For checkpoint 60, another police can spawn most of the time on the right side of the road. Recommend going off the accelerator for this one and sticking to the left side of the road, as the police car sometimes goes into the middle of the road. I crashed here so many times I lost count, you lose a lot of speed if this happens as you’ll be doing over 190 mph for this section.
For checkpoint 2, I recommend brake drifting in 5th gear all the way to checkpoint 3. This corner is amazing as you can get some sick moves done on the opponents here, overtaking all cars at once pretty much. Another favourite corner of mine in this race I think is checkpoints 37-39, recommend being in 6th gear flat out, reminds me of Formula 1 cars going flat out at high speed.
The key thing to this race is to utilize brake drifting to save a lot of time.
On The Dream Team
This took me a little while to do. The corner at checkpoint 8 can be quite tricky if you’re not on the racing line. Recommend being in 5th gear and drifting to checkpoint 9. The next part I found tricky was the tunnel just after checkpoint 13. I crashed here so many times, recommend sticking to the left side of the tunnel to avoid the cars. There were the two main issues I had I think, overall, this race will test everything you’ve learned about all the previous races, as this race is just a mixture of all the previous races merged into one. Highly recommend this being the last race you do.
Time Stamps
Green Events (Spyke) Horses For Courses - 03:17 Talk The Torque - 05:26 Turbo Ducking - 07:30 Hungry As A Manticore - 09:07 Torque Of The Town - 11:49 Maniac Or Master? - 14:05 Cj-Tastic - 17:31 Business Or Pleasure? - 20:10
Yellow Events (Manu) Find Your Groove - 23:31 Use It Lose It - 25:57 Wide And Tight - 29:01 Nocturnable - 32:35 Clamping Down - 36:22 Push Upstairs - 39:52 Japhet’s Full Flick - 45:42 Mental Block - 48:21
Purple Events (Amy) In The Driver’s Seat - 55:42 Red Makes It Faster - 57:35 Tanel’s Leap - 01:00:07 Blue Kobra Blitz - 01:03:00 Stagger Your Swagger - 01:06:13 A Legend’s Wheels - 01:09:10 Remastered - 01:10:52 Components Parts - 01:14:42
Blue Events (Robyn) Moonlight And Mountains - 01:16:57 Threading The Needle - 01:19:26 Fish Out Of Water - 01:22:33 Ready, Set, Drift - 01:25:21 Skill Or Eskil? - 01:27:49 Lock It Down - 01:29:25 One In Many - 01:32:57 Chasing Devils - 01:37:28
Red Events (Outlaw) Stanley Shakedown - 01:40:01 We Go on Three? - 01:42:13 Go Big Or Go Busted - 01:45:26 Maximum Attack - 01:47:29 Nothing To See Here - 01:51:05 Assume The Position - 01:53:21 Angels Can’t Catch Devils - 01:55:37 I Am The Law - 01:57:37
Final Challenge On The Dream Team - 02:02:01
Overall I'm really pleased to get this completed, this took me over 3 months of trying on and off to complete this. If you have any other thoughts on what could be added be sure to let me know, open to feedback and suggestions. I haven't been this happy completing a game since Gears of War 3.
If you're still having trouble feel free to use my walkthrough video of all the events as a reference.
With all that said, I hope this helps you out and good luck. Thanks again!
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-> Settings -> Game Settings -> Play Alone. I did all of these events using only manual gears for both the Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 2.8 (1973) and the Lamborghini Huracan LP 610-4 (2015).
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