Real Racing 3 - 2020 Porsche RSR 2020, 24 Hours of Le Mans Race Day

It appears the development team at Real Racing 3 decided to introduce a new level of frustration to the game.

With COVID-19 still gripping the world, the real life Le Mans Series for 2020, which would have taken place in June has been pushed back until September. However, that hasn't stopped a few racing titles from holding their own virtual version of this iconic race.

In Real Racing 3, three vehicles were offered up to be "earned" by players and naturally I chose the Porsche RSR.

A new feature was added to coincide with this event, a driver. A German driver for the German car made sense to me.

Now here is the point of frustration I brought up at the beginning.

Everyone who made the choice to enter this race series saw this screen, clearly stating the final outcome of any upgrades to the vehicle once the event concluded. My previous experience with these storyline events is there is always a trick of some kind and this obvious statement of "Hey, there's a catch to this" took me by surprise.

Based on the remarks I have read on the Real Racing Facebook page and Instagram feed, a great many people didn't bother to read the above disclaimer and just clicked on the "Continue" button." You can come to your own conclusions on who they are blaming for their "lost investment" after collecting their cars.

I took the time to read the disclaimer and started to work on a strategy of minimum M$ investment and maximum gain.

I really wanted that Porsche, but had this feeling the driver was key to making that happen, I just didn't know how....

Throughout the whole series, I kept a close eye on the costs of the vehicle upgrades, how much I was earning from the races, in both M$ and Driver Experience. I decided I would halt my progress at this particular stage  and "work the system" in my favor.

Perhaps "halt" isn't the right word for my choice, but the phrase "returned to" might be closer to the truth.

Up to this point, the M$ spent on the car seemed to be a reasonable "write off" and I was so close to the end when I realized the driver wasn't quite up to a level I really wanted them at. So, I saved my progress, "bought myself" ahead to get a preview of the next level and wound up restoring back to this stage.

I was just done with spending any more M$ on upgrades that don't carry past this series, so I ran this race over and over to replenish the bank and collect as much driver experience as I could. Bare in mind, I was trading off spending M$ on the car versus Gold on the driver levels, but that would carry over from this series.

In the end, I paid to skip the final two events and collected a bit of a hollow victory.