I found it to be stupidly twitchy and spent most of my time fighting it. I still landed in the top tier, though. I guess that it doesn't have to be pretty; it just has to be fast.
Still not a fan of hillclimbing. I have no idea what is coming next. At this point, I'm really only doing it for the achievements.
Pikes Peak is probably my favourite stage/location in the game, it's like running the Nordschleife.
I'm rallying first and foremost - my dad and his brothers built one of the biggest car clubs in the country from the ground up - but I do love circuit racing. The problem is that circuit racing hinges on knowing the circuit. When Pike's Peak is twenty kilometres long, there's no way that I can memorise all of the corners.
I was thinking about developing it throughout the events but I guess that won't work as intended then.
Oh, you can do that if you like, but the car will be heavy and down on power from the start. It will come to you eventually, but you'll stand a better chance of breaking into the top tier if you start with it fully developed.
That's the problem with rallycross - it seems to be an unwritten rule that you will ALWAYS come off second-best in contact. It doesn't matter how fast or how slow you're going, how heavy or how light the contact is, whether it's a glancing blow or prolonged door-to-door contact; it inevitably ends with you facing the wrong way. Nor does it help that the AI blindly stick to their racing line regardless of whoever or whatever is on their way. You'll see this most often in Hell; the normal line is to stick hard to the left and swing in to the first corner, while the joker line stays right and only brakes once they're past the bollard. What you get is the AI making suicidal lunges for the joker lap, and if someone is cutting across the circuit to make the normal lap, the joker driver won't bat an eyelid.
I was thinking about developing it throughout the events but I guess that won't work as intended then.
It doesn't actually contribute to your gamerscore. When you view it prior to unlocking it, it has a little diamond icon next to it. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain had a similar arrangement with in-game challenges - like rescuing ten prisoners or performing ten interrogations - but I never figured out what they gave you, aside from extra artwork that you could use as your backdrop.
The final upgrades not been installed, you will need another rally for that to happen.
