Talk:Apollo N (Championship)/@comment-34918040-20180418000311

Emptiness.

Complete silence.

Patagonia was really, really bizarre. After burning a complete set of tires for the first qualifier, even after upgrading to 3505 0203, I paid 400 tokens to skip it. :-( The cave made me lose way too many seconds every time.

Next three races: Done with first attempt – astonishing, compared to the failures of the first qualifier. Got the Champion's box with 4 V8s and made the car pro 0205.

Then the last qualifier that took even Damon D. R. seven attempts to complete: "only" four attempts. I couldn't believe my eyes.

And, of course, the Grand Finale was set in The River Fort, the only track of the entire game I hadn't played one single time in my life. I made silly mistakes, but after three attempts came the first race without crashes, and I won.

Result:


 * 400 tokens spent for skipping qualifier 1


 * 300 tokens spent for new tire sets (I did not want to wait 8 hours. Once I get used to a new car, I have to continue)


 * 4 free B upgrades spent, but I still have 8 left

On the positive side:


 * Learned how to make a barrel roll from a non-curved ramp. I never knew if it was by accident when I saw it in a video, and how they made it if it was on purpose. Well, now I was forced to do it in the cave, so I tried and tried and finally succeeded.


 * Finally got to know the Patagonia tracks a little better and won't avoid them in multiplayer races in the future.


 * ADRENALIN! That's what I like about championships. Besides, you build up a kind of relationship to the car you hopefully get. Totally different from just buying it.

I know that many of you say the Apollo N isn't worth the effort, but my fastest B class car was the Ferrari 599XX so far. It will take ages until I get enough blueprints for the BMW M2 SE, and the Sagaris, well, I finally had enough credits to buy it, but the Apollo N seemed more balanced and appealing to me.

If I manage to get through the Alps races I'll finally have a better car for B class events, and 700 tokens is ok for me under these circumstances (although I normally try to avoid spending any tokens at all).