Project: Gotham Racing 2 - Strategy Guide (Page 02)

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2.6 - Roadster Series
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Cities: Sydney, Edinburgh, Florence
Tiers: 4
Races: 11 (3x Street Race, 2x Cone Challenge, 3x Timed Run, 1x Overtake, 1x One
           on One, 1x Speed Camera)

This series is a little easier than the last one, but then again, it doesn't
have as many street races as the last one did. It's not even that difficult to
beat some of the races in this series on expert.

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Race 1: Timed Run
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Tier 1
City: Sydney
Track: Opera House View
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: The track this race takes place on may look somewhat difficult, but it
really isn't. Except for a street near the end where there is a narrow street
that goes up a hill, most of the streets are wide. Because of that, this race
isn't very hard.

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Race 2: Cone Challenge
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Tier 1
City: Sydney
Track: Under the Bridge
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This is the exact same race as the cone challenge from the first
series. The track is the same and the position of the cones is the same. Other
than you obviously having a different class of cars to use this time, the only
real difference is that this time there are two laps instead of one.

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Race 3: Street Race
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Tier 1
City: Sydney
Track: Downtown Short
Laps: 5
Weather: Sunny
Advice: There may be a lot of laps in this race, but that is because the track
itself is very short. Not only as the track short, but it is pretty easy, with
only a few big turns in it. If you are in a fast car, you can easily get into
first and then get a lead of around 7 or more seconds on the second placed car
in medium or hard modes. In expert, you wont be able to get much of a lead, and
you will have to race without making very many mistakes to get past the car
that is in first. The place where you are most likely to make mistakes is on
the first turn. This turn is a very sharp left turn. You have to be going very
slow through it to avoid hitting the outside barrier on it.

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Race 4: Timed Run
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Tier 2
City: Sydney
Track: Harbour Bridge
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: It'll require a lot of practice and a perfect run through the track to
beat it on expert. Hard isn't as difficult, but you still wont have much time
to spare on it. The track itself doesn't have very many straight streets on it,
in fact, you start on the only one that really is. You've actually raced on
this track once already, so hopefully you remember it.

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Race 5: Overtake
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Tier 2
City: Sydney
Track: Hickson Run
Laps: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Advice: It's not too difficult to beat this on hard or expert, because you get
more time in those than you do in medium. Still, you will need all of that
time. There are a lot of places where it's easy to crash on this track, and you
will want to avoid any crashing if you are trying to beat it on expert. There
is a turn on this track that seems to come out of nowhere. After you go down a
hill and make a sharp left turn at the bottom, you will be on the street that
that turn is on. It obviously comes at the end of that street that is at the
bottom of the hill.

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Race 6: Timed Run
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Tier 3
City: Edinburgh
Track: Princess Street Long
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This track has a lot of turns near the last third of the race for you
to screw up on. To beat it on expert or hard, you will have to be able to go
through them without making any mistakes. You might have to practice going
through it once or twice before you can beat it.

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Race 7: Cone Challenge
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Tier 3
City: Edinburgh
Track: Grassmarket Eight
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: The track that this cone challenge is on is very long and has a lot of
narrow roads on it. There are two places on it that are specifically difficult,
and that is because of speed. At the beginning of the race, you go onto a long
street with lots of cone gates on it. At the end, there are two left turns in
a row and the first checkpoint is in between the. It is very easy to go too
fast for the first of those and hit the wall, which will screw up any combo you
have going. After those, you will be on a street that has a sharp right turn
onto a narrow street at the end of it. You might have the same problem with
going too fast to make that turn as well.

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Race 8: One on One
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Tier 3
City: Edinburgh
Track: Grassmarket East
Laps: 2
Weather: Rain
Advice: It isn't that hard to beat the car you are racing against in this race,
even on expert, but it is raining, so it is much easier to make mistakes than
usual. You will have to get used to braking earlier for turns. On hard, you can
pass the other car on the straightaway that you start on. On expert, you
probably wont be able to pass it until the first turn.

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Race 9: Street Race
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Tier 4
City: Florence
Track: Ponte Vecchio
Laps: 3
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This race actually isn't very hard, because you can get in front of
most of the cars, even on expert, on the first turn. The race is also very
long, so you have plenty of time to catch up to any cars in front of you and
plenty of time to get a lead on the cars behind you. That first turn on this
track is a very wide left turn. In it, there is plenty of room to drive right
on past the other cars. The next turn after that is a wide right turn. You
should be able to pass any remaining cars by the time you get here.

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Race 10: Speed Camera
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Tier 4
City: Florence
Track: Speed Camera Track 1
Laps: N/A
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This speed camera track has one turn near the beginning and one turn
near the end with a big straightaway between those turns. The first turn is the
turn where first you have to make a right, then you have to make a sharp left.
At the end of the straightaway, the turn is a very wide right turn. If you take
it too fast and go too far into it, you will end up going slow when you pass by
the speed camera, which isn't very far past that turn. Take it slowly, like it
isn't a wide turn, to end up going faster after it.

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Race 11: Street Race
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Tier 4
City: Florence
Track: Battistero 2
Laps: 3
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This race takes place on a track that is the same as the one in the
last street race you did, except you race this one in the opposite direction
and at the end of it (What was the beginning in the last race) there are a few
extra turns. These turns actually make the race easier, since they are wider
than the ones in the last race. Like in that last race, by the first turn in
this track, you should be able to get in front of almost all of the other cars.


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2.7 - Classics Series
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Cities: Barcelona, Edinburgh
Tiers: 4
Races: 11 (3x Hot Lap, 1x Timed Run, 2x Street Race, 2x One on One, 1x Cone
           Challenge, 1x Overtake, 1x Speed Camera)

Most of the races in this series are surprisingly easy. You should be able to
beat all of them on hard without trying too many times, except for the last two
hot laps. Those are a bit difficult to do on hard.

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Race 1: Hot Lap
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Tier 1
City: Barcelona
Track: Las Ramblas
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: Some of the streets on this track are a bit on the narrow side, and the
turns here are sharp. Still, it isn't the most difficult of tracks. You should
be able to beat it on hard without much practice.

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Race 2: Timed Run
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Tier 1
City: Barcelona
Track: Catedral
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race is harder than it looks. Beating it on hard is enough of a
challenge, and beating it on expert is even harder. The hardest part of this
race is the first turn. You don't want to take it too fast, since you will
obviously hit the barrier, but if you take it too slow, you will lose too much
speed. The pairs of turns that come after it are also difficult, since if you
don't slow down enough for the second one, you wont be able to cut straight
through those two turns.

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Race 3: Street Race
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Tier 1
City: Barcelona
Track: Place de Jaume
Laps: 3
Weather: Sunny
Advice: Like in all of the other street races that you've done recently, the
best time to get into first place is right at the beginning. After the first
turn, you should be in second or third place. On the turn after that, you can
get in front of the rest of the cars.

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Race 4: One on One
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Tier 2
City: Barcelona
Track: Catalan Challenge
Laps: 2
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: Your opponent in this race isn't in the fastest of cars, so it is
really easy to win (Even on expert) if you are in a faster one. You can even
get into first on the long straightaway at the start of the race.

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Race 5: Hot Lap
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Tier 3
City: Edinburgh
Track: Grassmarket West
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This hot lap challenge is more difficult than the last few you've done.
It will take a few tries at least to beat it on hard, and it will obviously be
even more difficult to beat it on expert. You will only be able to beat it on
hard if you know the track well enough to not make any mistakes, so that's
why it will probably take a few tries. Expert obviously requires that you make
no mistakes and are able to get through the track even faster.

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Race 6: Cone Challenge
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Tier 3
City: Edinburgh
Track: Lothian Road Eight Long
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This track is very long and it has quite a few areas where there are
long stretches between cone gates, making it difficult to keep one combo going
for the whole track. Other than that, there aren't any turns that are sharp or
anything like that, so it isn't all that hard to beat this race on expert.

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Race 7: Overtake
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Tier 3
City: Edinburgh
Track: Terrace Sprint
Laps: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Advice: There isn't much to the track this race takes place on. There are two
main stretches of road, and they both have lots of gentle turns in them. There
are a series of streets with sharp turns in them at each end of the track that
connect the two main roads. Those sharp turns are the most difficult part of
the track. They can slow you down a lot, and if they do, it will be harder to
overtake more of the other cars. If you want to beat this race on expert, you
will have to master those turns to keep as much speed through them as possible.

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Race 8: One on One
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Tier 3
City: Edinburgh
Track: Princess Street Long
Laps: 3
Weather: Rain
Advice: This race takes place on the same track as the timed run in Edinburgh
in the last series. This time, it is raining. That makes this track much
harder. That is the biggest problem here. You can get in front of the car you
are racing against by the time you are through the first turn on any
difficulty, but you wont be able to stay in front of you crash in the turns
because of the rain. Get in front of that other car right away, brake for turns
early to avoid crashing and don't let the other car pass you and you should be
able to win this.

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Race 9: Hot Lap
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Tier 4
City: Barcelona
Track: Barri Gotic
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: Like the last hot lap, this one is pretty difficult on hard, and
obviously much harder on expert. If you make any mistakes while trying to beat
it on hard, you will probably have to try again. There are a few turns where it
is very easy to make those mistakes, too. Most of those mistakes can come from
not slowing down enough on turns where it is hard to judge how fast you should
go. You might have to go through the track a first time to see how fast you
should go on all of those turns and then play to win.

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Race 10: Speed Camera
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Tier 4
City: Barcelona
Track: Speed Camera Track 1
Laps: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Advice: The turn on this speed camera track is right at the beginning. It is a
wide and long left turn and it goes onto the very long straightaway in this
city. At the end of the straightaway is the speed camera and the end of the
track. There really isn't much else to say about this race.

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Race 11: Street Race
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Tier 4
City: Barcelona
Track: Las Ramblas
Laps: 5
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race is on the same track as the first hot lap in this series, so
you will have been through the track recently. As with any other street race,
you can get into first place right on the first turn. After taking first place,
hold it until the end of the race for an easy win.


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2.8 - Sports Coupe Series
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Cities: Stockholm, Yokohama, Hong Kong
Tiers: 5
Races: 13 (2x Timed Run, 2x Overtake, 5x Street Race, 2x One on One, 1x Cone
           Challenge, 1x Speed Camera)

This series seems to be a little bit more difficult than the last one. Some of
the races in this one are much harder to beat on hard than the races in the
last series.

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Race 1: Timed Run
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Tier 1
City: Stockholm
Track: Gamla Stan Loop
Laps: 3
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: In this race, there is actually a surprisingly high amount of time to
beat it on hard. But still, it doesn't make beating it on expert any easier
than it is on any other timed run.

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Race 2: Overtake
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Tier 1
City: Stockholm
Track: Northern
Laps: N/A
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: In this overtake race, you don't get more time to complete it on the
higher difficulties like in some of the other overtakes. That makes it a lot
harder to beat it on hard or expert. There are only five cars to overtake on
this track no matter the difficulty, and the fourth and fifth cars are always
very close to each other, so if you can pass the fourth one, you can probably
also pass the fifth one. Keep that in mind when choosing a difficulty setting.

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Race 3: Street Race
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Tier 1
City: Stockholm
Track: Bridges
Laps: 2
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This race is a real pain because of all of the turns on this track.
Many of them are sharp turns onto narrow streets. It's easy to take them with
too much speed and end up crashing. Because of that, it can be very hard to
stay in first place once you get into it, since your opponents wont mess up on
the turns. Passing those opponents is easy at the beginning of the race. You
can pass most of them on the street that you start on and then pass the rest of
them on the first turn.

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Race 4: One on One
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Tier 2
City: Stockholm
Track: Northern 3
Laps: 2
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This track has a lot of turns in it, but it isn't nearly as bad (Or as
long) as the last one. You should be able to pass the other car on the first
turn in this track. If you don't, you defiantly should be able to by the time
you turn onto a second bridge.

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Race 5: Overtake
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Tier 3
City: Yokohama
Track: Warehouse Loop
Laps: N/A
Weather: Rain
Advice: This race is surprisingly easy for an overtake race. On my first try, I
was able to pass all of the cars. You have the same amount of time to beat it
on hard or expert, and the fourth and fifth cars (You need to pass four on hard
and five on expert) drive very close to each other. Instead of playing on hard,
just skip it and go straight to expert, since if you can pass four cars,
passing the fifth is easy. For the track itself, there is rain, but if you
remember the races in Yokohama from a series or two back, all of the streets
are wide and straight, and the turns are also wide. Because of that, you don't
have to take the turns here too slowly and don't have to worry about slipping
into the barrier of a windy road.

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Race 6: Street Race
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Tier 3
City: Yokohama
Track: Kishamichi
Laps: 2
Weather: Rain
Advice: At first glance it might look like this track is almost the same as the
last one, but it really isn't. You start on the same long straightaway as the
last one, but you go much further on it on this track. When you get to the end
of that straightaway, you will have a very good chance to pass the other cars
as they take the sharp right turn.

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Race 7: Cone Challenge
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Tier 3
City: Yokohama
Track: Downtown
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: You don't get very much time on this race, so keep an eye on the clock
at the end of the race. If that wasn't enough of a problem, you still have to
worry about getting kudos, which isn't that difficult in this race. There are
a lot of places where the cone gates are far apart, but it's easy to go fast
enough on this track to get between them quickly. Also, there are a lot of
turns that don't have any cone gates in them and there aren't any close to
them. Just slide through them to keep a combo going.

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Race 8: Speed Camera
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Tier 3
City: Yokohama
Track: Speed Camera Track 1
Laps: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Advice: The big turn in this track is right at the beginning, so you have
plenty or room after it to get up speed. The turn is a very sharp right. After
it, there is a gentle left onto a straightaway that has the end of the track
and the speed camera on it.

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Race 9: One on One
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Tier 4
City: Yokohama
Track: Warehouse Loop
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race takes place on the same track as the last overtake did, but
this time there is no rain. Since that overtake was only a few races ago, you
should still have this track fresh in your memory. On hard and below, like in
any other race, you can get into first place by the first time. On expert, you
should be able to by the time you get to the second turn.

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Race 10: Timed Run
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Tier 5
City: Hong Kong
Track: Hennessey Road
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This is one of the harder timed runs. It will take a few attempts at
least to before you can beat it on hard, and as you should know by now, a lot
more to beat it on expert. The track itself isn't that bad, but there are a few
tricky turns on it.

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Race 11: Street Race
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Tier 5
City: Hong Kong
Track: Admiralty
Laps: 3
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race is kind of easy, especially compared to the next one. On
hard, you can get into first place after the first couple turns and as long as
you don't screw up, get a very big lead on the rest of the cars. On expert, it
can take much longer to get into first place (It might take a good portion of
the first lap to do it), but it is easy to keep up with the car in first when
it is in front of you.

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Race 12: Street Race
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Tier 5
City: Hong Kong
Track: Wan Chai Run
Laps: 5
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This race is actually kind of difficult. It is hard to get into first
place at all on hard, and of course it is even harder on expert. At the
beginning of the track there is a sharp left turn followed by a sharp right
turn. On the first lap, you can pass by most of the other cars here. There are
more turns where you another good chance to pass some cars after that, but they
aren't until you are closer to the end of the first lap. Any cars that you
don't pass by the end of the first lap will probably end up too far ahead of
you to pass.

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Race 13: Street Race
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Tier 5
City: Hong Kong
Track: Cotton Tree Drive
Laps: 3
Weather: Sunny
Advice: The hardest part of this race is at the very beginning of it. There are
a total of seven other cars, and the beginning of the track has a freeway with
a sharp right turn in it. The part of the street leading up to the freeway is
narrow, as narrow as the freeway, and you have to squeeze past all of the other
cars in this narrow section. Try to stay to the right until you get to the
actual turn, most of the other cars seem to go on the left side of the street,
meaning the right is mostly clear. Once you are past that sharp turn, you
should be able to get up to second place (Assuming you didn't lose speed by
hitting any of the other cars). From here it will probably take awhile to catch
up to the car in first, so you might be close to finishing the first lap when
you do.


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2.9 - American Muscle Series
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Cities: Chicago, Washington D.C.
Tiers: 5
Races: 14 (7x Street Race, 2x Cone Challenge, 2x Hot Lap, 1x One on One, 1x
           Timed Run, 1x Speed Camera)

This series has some easy races, and some that are very difficult. In many of
the street races, all of your opponents will be very close behind you, so you
wont be able to afford to make even the smallest mistake. If you are having
trouble with a race, you can always lower the difficulty.

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Race 1: Street Race
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Tier 1
City: Chicago
Track: The Miracle Mile
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: Finally, a race in Chicago. You will soon learn that a lot of the
streets here are nice and wide, and so are the turns. Of course, there are
some roads that aren't wide and some sharp turns. In the race itself, the best
place to get into first is right at the beginning on the first turn. I say that
for every street race, but it is more important in this one. If you don't pass
the other cars on this turn, there wont be another good spot to pass them, so
you might not be able to do it at all.

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Race 2: Street Race
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Tier 1
City: Chicago
Track: Chicago River Tour
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: At the beginning of this track there are two turns in a row. The first
one is a right turn and the second one is a left. Of course, these are where
you will want to pass the other cars. The car that starts in first is too far
ahead to pass on the first turn, but you should be able to pass it by the
second one.

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Race 3: Cone Challenge
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Tier 2
City: Chicago
Track: North Wabash Overpass
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: There are a few places on this track where cone gates are far apart,
making it difficult to continue one combo through the entire track. There are
four major streets like this. After the third turn, there are three long
streets that run east to west or west to east. The gates are far apart on
these. The gates are also far apart on the last street, right after you cross
a bridge. You might have to slide a little bit as the road makes a gentle turn
when you get off that bridge. Also, the first bridge you go across in this race
is divided in the middle. There are the same number of cone gates on each side
of the divider, so it doesn't matter which side you take.

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Race 4: Hot Lap
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Tier 2
City: Chicago
Track: Wells & Lake
Laps: 1
Weather: Sunny
Advice: You can probably tell that this track wont be easy just by looking at
the track map. There are a lot of turns on this track, and a lot of them come
after long straightaways, so it is easy not to brake enough for them. In order
to beat this level on hard, you will have to do very good. If you have too much
trouble beating it on hard, just try it on medium.

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Race 5: One on One
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Tier 2
City: Chicago
Track: In The Loop
Laps: 2
Weather: Rain
Advice: This race starts on a long straightaway with a left turn at the end.
You can catch up to the other car on the straightaway and then pass it on the
turn. Then you just have to avoid letting it pass you for the rest of the race.

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Race 6: Street Race
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Tier 2
City: Chicago
Track: Wells & Lake
Laps: 3
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This race takes place on the same track as the last hot lap did. You
have to get into first place as soon as possible on this track to win. After
awhile, the car in first place will probably start to get a big lead on you if
you don't. You wont be able to get into first place right away, but you should
be able to somewhere around the tunnel straightaway on this track. The cars
other than the one are much easier to get in front of. You can get in front of
all of them on the first turn and since there are so many other turns on this
track, they wont go very fast and you can get a huge lead on them.

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Race 7: Cone Challenge
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Tier 3
City: Washington D.C.
Track: Northside Slide
Laps: 2
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This is the first race in Washington D.C. There are a lot of wide roads
in this city, although not as wide as in Chicago, and there aren't that many
sharp turns. On this track, there are a few places where it is hard to keep a
combo going due to the distance between cone gates. In fact, almost all of the
cone gates on this track are far apart from each other, so you have to go fast
through the whole track to keep a combo going. Other than that, you have to
worry about a cone gate that is very easy to miss at first and then pass or run
into. On the street with the first checkpoint, there is a gentle turn near the
end. That turn goes onto a street that goes downhill. On that hill, there is a
cone gate on the right side. You wont be able to see this gate until you are on
the street going downhill.

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Race 8: Street Race
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Tier 3
City: Washington D.C.
Track: Capitol Thrill
Laps: 3
Weather: Sunny
Advice: This is your standard street race at the start. There is a long
straightaway at the start with a turn at the end, and that turn is where you
can pass all of the other cars. If you haven't passed all of the cars by the
time you are through that turn, the next couple of turns are also good for
passing them.

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Race 9: Hot Lap
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Tier 4
City: Washington D.C.
Track: Square Dancin'
Laps: 1
Weather: Rain
Advice: This hot lap is a lot easier than the last one. On hard, you get enough
time to beat it, even if you skid a little bit in some of the turns and hit a
barrier.

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Race 10: Timed Run
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Tier 4
City: Washington D.C.
Track: Up and Over
Laps: 2
Weather: Rain
Advice: This race is kind of easy, like the last one. You have enough time on
hard to beat it even if you don't do too well on a few of the turns. This race
starts and ends in the middle of a straightaway. If you run out of time when
you are close to the finish, you can still drift into it and still win if you
are close enough to it.

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Race 11: Street Race
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Tier 4
City: Washington D.C.
Track: Capitol Thrill 2
Laps: 4
Weather: Sunny
Advice: The hardest part of this race is right at the beginning. There are a
few turns right after the start, and all of the other cars can get in your way.
If you can go through without hitting them, it is very easy to get into first
right away. You start this race on a straightaway that makes a gentle right
turn at the end and then a gentle left. These two turns are where the other
cars will probably get in your way. If they do, or if they make you crash, just
restart and try again. After those gentle turns, there is a right turn. You
should pass the second place and maybe first place cars here. Once you get into
first place, you have to hold it. The other cars will probably be right behind
you, so you can't afford to make any mistakes.

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Race 12: Street Race
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Tier 5
City: Chicago
Track: North Wabash Overpass
Laps: 4
Weather: Clear (Night)
Advice: This race takes place on the same track as the first cone challenge in
this series did. Don't expect to get into first place on this race right away.
You probably wont have the chance to get into second place until you've done
most of the first lap, and it will be even longer before you can get into
first. When I did this race, I didn't get into first until the third lap. You
wont be able to make any mistakes once you are in first. The other cars will
always be close behind, and one slip up is all they need to pass you.