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Project Gotham Racing 2 FAQ/Walkthrough Version 0.7 Last updated: 12/8/03 By Pierre "Masamune2" Maris [email protected] =============================================================================== Table of Contents =============================================================================== 1. Version History 2. Kudos World Series Mode 2.1 - Compact Sports Series 2.2 - Sports Convertible Series 2.3 - Coupe Series 2.5 - Pacific Muscle Series 2.6 - Roadster Series 2.7 - Classics Series 2.8 - Sports Coupe Series 2.9 - American Muscle Series 2.10 - Super Car Series 2.11 - Grand Touring Series 2.12 - Track Specials Series 2.13 - Extreme Series 2.14 - Ultimate Series 3. Car List 3.1 - Compact Sports Class 3.2 - Sports Convertible Class 3.3 - Coupe Class 3.4 - Sport Utility Class 3.5 - Pacific Muscle Class 3.6 - Roadster Class 3.7 - Classics Class 3.8 - Sports Couple Class 3.9 - American Muscle Class 3.10 - Super Car Class 3.11 - Grand Touring Class 3.12 - Track Specials Class 3.13 - Extreme Class 3.14 - Ultimate Class 4. Contact Information 5. Legal Stuff =============================================================================== 1. Version History =============================================================================== Version 0.5 (11/21/03) - First version, only have first level of Kudos World Series and the car list done Version 0.5 (11/26/03) - Added walkthrough for Kudos World Series up to series 10 Version 0.55 (11/27/03) - Walkthrough for Kudos World Series series 11 done Version 0.6 (12/1/03) - Added walkthrough for series 12 in Kudos World Series, split guide so that track descriptions are in their own separate FAQ Version 0.7 (12/8/03) - Finished the Kudos World Series mode walkthrough and went through FAQ to do some editing on cone challenges =============================================================================== 2. Kudos World Series Mode =============================================================================== This section gives you help in beating the races in Kudos World Series mode. Some basic advice as given for every race, and I also detail every part of the track that the race is on (Except in some cases where you race on a specific track in more than one different race). In this section under each series (And for each race) is a listing called 'Tier' or 'Tiers'. In every series, you can't play any race in it at once. You have to beat the first ones to unlock the next set, beat that set to unlock the one after that, and so on. I call each set of races a tier. The tier listing under each series is how many tiers of races there are in that series, and the listing under each race is what tier that race is in. As you go through this mode, you will earn lots of kudos and therefore, lots of Kudos Tokens. When you are still in the first series of this mode, don't bother to spend your tokens on any of the cars there. When you open the second series, buy the car with the best stats before you do any races and then use that car. When you open the next series and the ones after it, do the same thing. ************************************** 2.1 - Compact Sports Series ************************************** Cities: Florence, Sydney, Stockholm Tiers: 3 Races: 7 (3x Street Race, 2x One on One, 1x Speed Camera) Since this is the first series, it is obviously the easiest. It is easy to beat many of the levels here on expert and the rest can be beaten on hard without much trouble. Don't bother to spend your Kudos Tokens on any cars in this series. Save them up so that you can buy the best car for the next series right after you unlock it. ------------------- Race 1: Street Race ------------------- Tier 1 City: Florence Track: Duomo 2 Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: This being the first race, it is obviously very easy. You can beat it on expert without much difficulty. The track itself is simple, too, with not all that many turns. ------------------ Race 2: One on One ------------------ Tier 1 City: Florence Track: Duomo 1 Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: Like the last race, this one is also easy and you can beat it on expert fairly easily, since it is only the second race in the game. ---------------------- Race 3: Cone Challenge ---------------------- Tier 2 City: Sydney Track: Under the Bridge Laps: 1 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race can actually be pretty hard. Beating it on medium isn't that difficult, but it gets harder on hard and is very hard on expert. If you want to win on hard, you will have to keep a combo going for the whole race. To win on expert, you have to do that and slide a lot to increase your combo bonus. There is one spot in the race where it is very tricky to keep a combo going. It is on the turn that takes you onto the street with the second checkpoint. Before the turn, there is a cone gate in the right lane. After the turn, there is a cone gate in the left lane and then the checkpoint. It's actually easier to do this if you don't pass through the second gate. After passing the first one, you will want to slide through the turn. Start the slide early to keep your combo going and try not to make it end until you are past where the second cone gate is. If you try to go through that gate, you have to slow down to get to it and you need the extra speed to get to the checkpoint. ------------------ Race 4: One on One ------------------ Tier 2 City: Sydney Track: Dawes Point Loop Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race is a bit harder than the ones before it, except for the last one. I had trouble with beating it on expert right away. In order to win on expert, you will have to be able to take the first turn as fast as possible. If you can do that, you will be very close to the other car after the turn and will be able to pass it not long after that. ------------------- Race 5: Street Race ------------------- Tier 3 City: Stockholm Track: Gamla Stan Loop Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: It's hard to get in first place with one of the default cars in hard or expert, but it's possible. To do so, draft as much as you can along the long street that turns a little bit to the left at the beginning of the race. When you get to the big left turn, you want to cut in front of all three of the other cars. Hit them if you must. If you can do that, you only have to hold your position for the rest of the race. -------------------- Race 6: Speed Camera -------------------- Tier 3 City: Stockholm Track: Speed Camera Track 1 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: This race is easy on medium and below. Hard and expert are a problem if you are using one of the default three cars. If you are, hard should be barely possible to get and I don't know if expert is at all. You probably need a faster car to do it. The problem with this track is the three turns. You start on a straightaway with a sharp right turn after it. Just after that there is a left turn. Then there is the final turn, a right. After that is a straightaway. At the end of it, where the track ends on the map, is the speed camera. You have to be going at your target speed when you pass it. What you really have to do is master getting around those turns with as much speed as possible and then use that speed until you get to the end. ------------------- Race 7: Street Race ------------------- Tier 3 City: Stockholm Track: Gamla Oval Laps: 3 Weather: Sunny Advice: Like the past few races, the one isn't very easy on hard or expert. You might not want to try either if you haven't gotten any new cars yet. The best time to gain positions is at the beginning of the race. Draft as much as you can along the long road at the start that slightly turns to the right. At the end of it, if you can take the sharp right cleanly, you will get a big advantage. ************************************** 2.2 - Sports Convertible Series ************************************** Cities: Moscow, Florence Tiers: 3 Races: 7 (1x Overtake, 3x Street Race, 1x One on One, 1x Cone Challenge, 1x Speed Camera) Before doing any races in this series, use your kudos tokens to buy one of the better cars for this series. From now on, the first thing you should do when you open up the next series is to use your saved up Kudos Tokens to buy the best car. ---------------- Race 1: Overtake ---------------- Tier 1 City: Moscow Track: Kremlin 1 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: Don't start out on hard or expert on this race. Do medium first to see how well you can do, and then if you did well and want to, do it on hard or expert. I say that because this race is a bit more difficult that you might expect. There are a total of seven other cars to overtake (Regardless of what you set the difficulty to) and they all go surprisingly fast, so it isn't easy to catch up to them. The track itself isn't a problem, since it is mostly a few straight streets connected by wide turns. ------------------- Race 2: Street Race ------------------- Tier 1 City: Moscow Track: St Basil's Circle Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: On expert mode this race is very hard. The car that is usually in first place is very fast, much quicker than the other cars, so it takes a lot of skill to beat it. On the other difficulties, it isn't as hard to get into first place (Or whatever position you have to get in to win). ------------------- Race 3: Street Race ------------------- Tier 2 City: Florence Track: Piazza della Repubblica Laps: 3 Weather: Sunny Advice: This level is easy to get in first place in if you used Kudos Tokens to buy a good car. If you didn't, you might only be able to beat it on hard, because the car in first in expert is very fast. The track itself is very easy. It's just a loop. ------------------ Race 4: One on One ------------------ Tier 2 City: Florence Track: Uffizi Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race isn't all that difficult, except on expert. There is one easy way to win it on expert (Or any other mode), though. You start on a long straightaway. At the end of it, you have to make a right turn and then two small left turns in succession. It is very easy to hit the car you are racing against in this area. If you hit it so that it runs into a wall or bump the back side of it and cause it to spin, you greatly increase your chances of winning. Doing that is up to you. ---------------------- Race 5: Cone Challenge ---------------------- Tier 3 City: Moscow Track: Lenin Laps: 1 Weather: Sunny Advice: This cone challenge is a bit easier than the last one. In this one, it is very easy to keep a combo going throughout the entire level. To beat it on expert, that is exactly what you will have to do. The hardest parts of this race are the turns. There are no cone gates around any of the turns, so you have to slide if you want to keep a combo going. -------------------- Race 6: Speed Camera -------------------- Tier 3 City: Moscow Track: Speed Camera Track 1 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: This race is a little bit easier than the last speed camera one, because the turns are easier to take. There is one left turn in the middle of the track and then a big, wide, right turn. You go up a hill at the end of that right turn and then make a gentle left onto the straightaway that holds the camera. Even though the turns are easier, it still requires effort to beat the level on hard and expert. You will need a very fast car to do that. ------------------- Race 7: Street Race ------------------- Tier 3 City: Moscow Track: Red Square 2 Laps: 1 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race is hard to win in the higher difficulty levels, even with a fast car. Like in some of the other races like this, you can use a turn near the start of the race to your advantage. You start in a very wide road that has its sides blocked off and is very straight. At the end of it is a VERY sharp right turn. As the first two cars take it (They should take it together), you can run into the first car as it turns to cause it to spin and crash. If that happens, you can pass it and get into first. That can also cause the other cars to crash, giving you an even bigger advantage. You could also try to pass it without hitting it, but that isn't as likely to get you into first place. ************************************** 2.3 - Coupe Series ************************************** Cities: Sydney, Stockholm Tiers: 4 Races: 8 (1x Timed Run, 2x Street Race, 1x Speed Camera, 1x One on One, 1x Cone Challenge, 1x Overtake, 1x Hot Lap) Now things are getting harder. You probably wont be able to beat any of the races in this series on expert without trying many times and mastering the track the race takes place on. Beating the races here on hard is also more difficult than before, but isn't terribly difficult yet. ----------------- Race 1: Timed Run ----------------- Tier 1 City: Sydney Track: Dawes Point Loop Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This is the exact same track as the one you raced on for the One on One in the first series, though you have a faster car this time. Because of that, you should remember how to get through this track and specifically, how to take that first turn in it. Beating this level in hard can be done with a little practice and a good car. Beating it in expert is obviously much more difficult and requires even more practice. ------------------- Race 2: Street Race ------------------- Tier 1 City: Sydney Track: Cumberland Street Laps: 3 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: As usual, you can get into first place at the start of this race. Draft the other cars while you are on the long street that this race takes place on, and when you get to the sharp left turn, you can pass any other cars in front of you, as long as you don't screw up on the turn. -------------------- Race 3: Speed Camera -------------------- Tier 1 City: Sydney Track: Speed Camera Track 1 Laps: N/A Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This speed camera race is even easier than the last two in some ways. It has one big, long, left turn in the middle of it with straightaways at the beginning and end. With a fast car, it is very easy to beat this race on hard. ------------------ Race 4: One on One ------------------ Tier 2 City: Sydney Track: Harbour Bridge Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This level is harder than the first ones in the series, mostly because of all of the turns in the track. Getting in front of the other car isn't all that hard, you can do it on the first turn, even on expert. ---------------------- Race 5: Cone Challenge ---------------------- Tier 3 City: Stockholm Track: Northern 2 Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race is a nightmare compared to the last cone challenge. This one has lots of sharp turns onto narrow streets and on straightaways, gates that are placed just a little bit too far apart for you to keep a combo going through them unless you are going as fast as possible. Those sharp turns come before the second checkpoint. There are three of them very close together, and they are the only turns near that checkpoint. The first one is a right turn, it is especially hard to take because you will probably be going very fast from the last straightaway. Not far after it, there is a sharp left that is followed by a sharp right. ---------------- Race 6: Overtake ---------------- Tier 3 City: Stockholm Track: Gamla Island Hopping Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: This track is almost the same as the one for the last street race of the first series. Like in the last overtake challenge, the cars you have to pass are rather quick. If you screw up, you might not be able to catch up. Unlike the last one, you get more time when you increase the difficulty, which makes things easier. --------------- Race 7: Hot Lap --------------- Tier 4 City: Stockholm Track: Round the Riksdagshuset Laps: 1 Weather: Sunny Advice: Unfortunately, this track goes through some of the same areas that the cone challenge one did. The worst part of this track is that is has the same very sharp turn onto a narrow street. Other than that, this race isn't horribly difficult, since you still aren't very far in the game. ------------------- Race 8: Street Race ------------------- Tier 4 City: Stockholm Track: Island Hop Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: This track is fairly complicated, because it has lots of turns. That is good news for you, since turns are a great place to pass opponents. On hard, you can get into first place before the first checkpoint by passing the other cars on turns. On expert, you can also pass a lot of the cars on the turns, but it will take much longer. ************************************** 2.4 - Sport Utility Series ************************************** Cities: Edinburgh, Florence, Moscow Tiers: 4 Races: 8 (1x Hot Lap, 1x Speed Camera, 3x Street Race, 1x One on One, 1x Cone Challenge, 1x Overtake) Now beating races on expert will be damned near impossible and beating them on hard will require lots of practice. Beating the races on medium still isn't very hard at this level. --------------- Race 1: Hot Lap --------------- Tier 1 City: Edinburgh Track: Princess Street East Laps: 3 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race isn't very hard, you an probably actually beat it on your first try. You get a lot of time to beat it on hard, so you can even beat it after making a small mistake or two. -------------------- Race 2: Speed Camera -------------------- Tier 1 City: Edinburgh Track: Speed Camera Track 1 Laps: N/A Weather: Rain Advice: Unlike the other speed camera races you've done so far, this one only has turns at the beginning of the track. At the start the track angles to the right and then there is a sharp left turn. After that there is another sharp left and then two gentle turns. The first one is to the left and the second is to the right. After that there is a straightaway with the end of the track at the end. With a fast car, it's very easy to beat it on hard. ------------------- Race 3: Street Race ------------------- Tier 1 City: Edinburgh Track: Princess Street Loop Laps: 3 Weather: Sunny Advice: You won't be able to pass all of the other cars on the straightaway at the start of this race, so you will have to pass most of them in the first turn. You have to be careful when passing them in that turn, though. If you hit one of them, you will be slowed down a lot and the car in first place will get far in front of you. After you are through that turn, the next turn is the best place to get in front of any other cars, especially on expert. If you can't get in front of them here, try to on the next big turn. ------------------ Race 4: One on One ------------------ Tier 2 City: Edinburgh Track: Grassmarket Eight Laps: 2 Weather: Night (Clear) Advice: On hard, it is really easy to get into first place at the beginning of the race. You can do it on the first turn. If for whatever reason you don't get into first on that turn, you can on the turns at the end of the winding road. On expert, you won't be able to get into first on that first turn. When you are on the winding road, just draft the other car. If you get the chance, pass him on this road. If not, pass him when you get to the turns at the end of the road. All you have to do after that on any difficulty is hold your position. ---------------------- Race 5: Cone Challenge ---------------------- Tier 3 City: Florence Track: Arno 2 Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: This cone challenge is a bit easier than the last one. The cone gates are closer together and there aren't any streets that are really narrow. There are only two spots in this race that are a bit difficult. The first is near the middle of the race, between the two checkpoints. After the first checkpoint, you turn onto a long street. At the end of it, it has the turn where you first make a gentle right and then have to make a sharp left. There is a cone gate in the middle of it. After you pass that gate, you have to do a long slide to get to the next cone gate, since it is kind of far away and this turn makes you go very slow. The other difficult part is near the end of the race, on the same street that the second checkpoint is on. That street is the one that turns to the left at the end and then makes a right turn onto the last street. It's easy to take this turn too fast and hit a wall, or too slow and have your combo end. ---------------- Race 6: Overtake ---------------- Tier 3 City: Florence Track: Duomo 1 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: This race takes place on a track you've already raced on. The track itself is rather simple. Since the track itself is easy, it isn't all that hard to beat this race on the harder difficulties, especially since you don't always have less time as the difficulty goes up. It's easy to pass all of the cars on the hard difficulty, and even easier on expert since you get more time. Just try to avoid going too fast through turns in this race, if you do and end up hitting walls, you will lose a lot of speed and might have a harder time beating the race. ------------------- Race 7: Street Race ------------------- Tier 4 City: Moscow Track: Kremlin 1 Laps: 4 Weather: Sunny Advice: This is the same track as the first overtake challenge, back in the second series, was on. On hard and expert, you just have to get a good start to beat this race. If you can't get into first or second in the first lap, the cars in front of you will probably start to get a bigger and bigger lead on you as the race goes on. The best place to get a good lead at the start is on the first turn. If you can take it without slowing down too much from hitting the other cars or braking to avoid hitting them, you can get near the front of the pack of other cars right away and then pass any others on the next turns. ------------------- Race 8: Street Race ------------------- Tier 4 City: Moscow Track: Red Square 1 Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: The track this race takes place on is much more complicated and obviously much longer than the last one. Because of all of the turns on this track, most of your opponents will go very slowly. On hard, all of them but the one that starts in first will end up very far behind you. While playing on hard, you can pass most of them on the street you start on. When you get to the turn at the end of the street, you can pass the rest of the other cars. On expert, you wont be able to pass all of the other cars when you get to that turn. You will have to try to get in front of them on the next few turns. ************************************** 2.5 - Pacific Muscle Series ************************************** Cities: Hong Kong, Yokohama Tiers: 5 Races: 10 (6x Street Race, 1x Cone Challenge, 1x Hot Lap, 1x One on One, 1x Speed Camera) It can be very hard to get into first place on some of the street races in this series. If you don't get into first place in those races right away, you might not be able to at all, since the car in first will just get a bigger and bigger lead on you. ------------------- Race 1: Street Race ------------------- Tier 1 City: Hong Kong Track: The Convention Centres Laps: 4 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This street race is a lot harder than the others that you've done so far. One of the most important things to do in this race is to take the very first turn perfectly. Take it so that you get the good line kudos bonus. If you do this, you can do a few things. First, you will be closer to the car in first place. Second, you will block the car that starts in third place so that it can't pass you after you've passed it (You should have passed it before getting to the turn). You will also be able to to get in front of the car that starts in second. If you can do this, you can get in front of the car in first by the end of the first lap, even on expert. ------------------- Race 2: Street Race ------------------- Tier 1 City: Hong Kong Track: Wan Chai Run Laps: 4 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This race takes place on a track that is much more difficult than the one in the last race, but you can pass the other cars sooner. You get a good chance to pass the right on the first turn. They take it very slowly, so you can pass almost all of them on it. You can then pass the rest on the next few turns if you have to. ------------------- Race 3: Street Race ------------------- Tier 1 City: Hong Kong Track: Harbour Run Laps: 4 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: The track in this race follows a similar path to the one in the last race, except you race in the opposite direction and it is a little bit longer. As usual, the best place to pass the other cars is on the first turn in the track. On hard, you can then pass the rest of the cars some time around the next turn. On expert, it will take much longer to get into first. It might even take the whole first lap to get close enough to pass the first place car. ---------------------- Race 4: Cone Challenge ---------------------- Tier 2 City: Yokohama Track: Sakuragicho Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: The track this takes place on is nice and wide and only has streets that are straight on it. The race may even be easier than the last cone challenge. The gates are mostly close together, except on almost all of the few turns. You will have to slide through the first and last two turns on this track to keep a combo going. The last turn is even trickier than that. There are two cone gates that come after it before you get to the start and finish line. One is right after the turn and the other is further back. When sliding through the turn, it may actually be easier to slide past the first of those gates and then only go through the second. --------------- Race 5: Hot Lap --------------- Tier 2 City: Yokohama Track: Shinko Park Laps: 1 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This race takes place on a track that has two parallel straightaways with left turns that connect them at each end. That's all. Take a fast car for this race for the straightaways, and practice taking the turns as quickly as possible to beat it. ------------------ Race 6: One on One ------------------ Tier 3 City: Yokohama Track: Seaside Loop Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: Like the other Yokohama tracks, this one takes place on wide, straight roads and doesn't have many very sharp turns where you don't have much space to turn. Before you get to the first turn on this track, draft the other car. Once you are at the turn, you can pass the other car. You can also bump into the car to make it crash, if you want to be cheap. ------------------- Race 7: Street Race ------------------- Tier 4 City: Yokohama Track: Yokohama Bay Tour Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This race takes place on a Yokohama track that actually has a few narrow roads. This first turn on this track can be a problem when you are on the first lap. You will have to squeeze past all of the other cars while they are turning, and if you hit one of them, there is always the chance that it will slow you down a lot. If you can get through this turn without slowing down much, you should be in a good position already. You may need the rest of the first lap to catch up to the other cars, but once you are in first, you only have to hold your position for the rest of the race. ------------------- Race 8: Street Race ------------------- Tier 4 City: Yokohama Track: Minato Mirai Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This is another Yokohama track with wide, straight roads and mostly 90-degree turns. The key to getting in first on this track is the first two turns, which are a right turns. Try to get in front of as many cars as you can on these turns, but go through them as fast as possible. -------------------- Race 9: Speed Camera -------------------- Tier 5 City: Hong Kong Track: Speed Camera Track 1 Laps: N/A Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: The big turn in this track is on a hill in the middle of it. On that hill there are a couple of left turns. After it there is a very long road that is straight except for a gentle left turn in the middle of it. At the end of it is the end of the track. You have to master getting through those turns with optimal speed to beat this level on a higher difficulty. -------------------- Race 10: Street Race -------------------- Tier 5 City: Hong Kong Track: Admiralty Laps: 3 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This track is very long and has a lot of twists and turns in it. That's a good thing, because it means there are more turns in which you can get ahead of your opponents. You can't get in front of them on the first turn, even on hard, but you can on the turn following that. After that turn, there will be one more turn where you can pass a lot of the other cars. You should be in first or near it after that. Since there are a lot more turns on the track, you can still use those to pass any other cars in front of you. Just don't screw up on those turns and crash. ************************************** 2.6 - Roadster Series ************************************** 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. ----------------- Race 1: Timed Run ----------------- 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. ---------------------- Race 2: Cone Challenge ---------------------- 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. ------------------- Race 3: Street Race ------------------- 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. ----------------- Race 4: Timed Run ----------------- 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. ---------------- Race 5: Overtake ---------------- 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. ----------------- Race 6: Timed Run ----------------- 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. ---------------------- Race 7: Cone Challenge ---------------------- 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. ------------------ Race 8: One on One ------------------ 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. ------------------- Race 9: Street Race ------------------- 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. --------------------- Race 10: Speed Camera --------------------- 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. -------------------- Race 11: Street Race -------------------- 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. ************************************** 2.7 - Classics Series ************************************** 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. --------------- Race 1: Hot Lap --------------- 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. ----------------- Race 2: Timed Run ----------------- 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. ------------------- Race 3: Street Race ------------------- 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. ------------------ Race 4: One on One ------------------ 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. --------------- Race 5: Hot Lap --------------- 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. ---------------------- Race 6: Cone Challenge ---------------------- 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. ---------------- Race 7: Overtake ---------------- 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. ------------------ Race 8: One on One ------------------ 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. --------------- Race 9: Hot Lap --------------- 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. --------------------- Race 10: Speed Camera --------------------- 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. -------------------- Race 11: Street Race -------------------- 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. ************************************** 2.8 - Sports Coupe Series ************************************** 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. ----------------- Race 1: Timed Run ----------------- 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. ---------------- Race 2: Overtake ---------------- 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. ------------------- Race 3: Street Race ------------------- 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. ------------------ Race 4: One on One ------------------ 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. ---------------- Race 5: Overtake ---------------- 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. ------------------- Race 6: Street Race ------------------- 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. ---------------------- Race 7: Cone Challenge ---------------------- 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. -------------------- Race 8: Speed Camera -------------------- 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. ------------------ Race 9: One on One ------------------ 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. ------------------ Race 10: Timed Run ------------------ 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. -------------------- Race 11: Street Race -------------------- 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. -------------------- Race 12: Street Race -------------------- 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. -------------------- Race 13: Street Race -------------------- 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. ************************************** 2.9 - American Muscle Series ************************************** 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. ------------------- Race 1: Street Race ------------------- 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. ------------------- Race 2: Street Race ------------------- 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. ---------------------- Race 3: Cone Challenge ---------------------- 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. --------------- Race 4: Hot Lap --------------- 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. ------------------ Race 5: One on One ------------------ 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. ------------------- Race 6: Street Race ------------------- 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. ---------------------- Race 7: Cone Challenge ---------------------- 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. ------------------- Race 8: Street Race ------------------- 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. --------------- Race 9: Hot Lap --------------- 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. ------------------ Race 10: Timed Run ------------------ 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. -------------------- Race 11: Street Race -------------------- 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. -------------------- Race 12: Street Race -------------------- 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. --------------------- Race 13: Speed Camera --------------------- Tier 5 City: Chicago Track: Speed Camera Track 1 Laps: N/A Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: All of the big turns on this track are at the start. There are a total of three of them, all left turns. The first one is right in front of where you start. That puts you onto a street that goes across the divided bridge. On the other side is the second left turn. That turn puts you onto a very wide street. The last left turn is at the end of this short street. The turn itself is so wide, you don't even have to brake. After that, there is the street that goes to the end of the track. It goes across a bridge, past two gentle turns and then past the speed camera. This speed camera challenge is actually on the easy side. The speed you need to get to beat it on expert is rather low. All you have to do to beat it on expert is get through that third left turn with as much speed as possible and then gun it to the speed camera. -------------------- Race 14: Street Race -------------------- Tier 5 City: Chicago Track: Lower Wacker Run Laps: 5 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This race is very difficult. The track is long and has a lot of turns, and the other cars will never be too far behind you, so you can't afford to make any mistakes. You wont be able to pass any of the other cars right away, but you will be able to on the left turn before you cross the first bridge. You wont be able to get into first on that turn, so you will have to drive flawlessly until you can catch up to and pass the first place car. ************************************** 2.10 - Super Car Series ************************************** Cities: Florence, Edinburgh, Sydney Tiers: 6 Races: 14 (1x Timed Run, 2x Overtake, 2x One on One, 1x Speed Camera, 5x Street Race, 3x Hot Lap) This series is where things start to get hard. All of the races in this series are much more difficult than the races you've done so far. You might want to try beating them on medium before you try to beat them on anything else. ----------------- Race 1: Timed Run ----------------- Tier 1 City: Florence Track: Piazza della Repubblica Laps: 6 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race takes place on a very easy and simple track, but that doesn't mean that the race itself is the least bit easy. The times you have to finish the race on in hard and expert only differ by two seconds. Because of that, just beating it on hard will be incredibly difficult. If you want to beat it on hard or expert, you will have to drive perfectly, and you will have to have a very fast car. ---------------- Race 2: Overtake ---------------- Tier 1 City: Florence Track: Piazza della Signoria 2 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: You get the same amount of time to beat this race on expert, hard or medium, so that makes things a little bit easier on you. The last few cars wont be very close together, though, and that makes it a little harder. The track this race takes place on may look easy, but it does have some turns that are easy to take a bit too fast and crash on. ------------------ Race 3: One on One ------------------ Tier 2 City: Florence Track: Piazza della Signoria 1 Laps: 3 Weather: Sunny Advice: Since the first turns on this track are gentle turns and not sharper, the car you are racing against wont slow down enough for you to pass it. You will be able to pass it on the street that follows them. If you don't, you still can pass it on the turn that is on the other side of the bridge this street goes over. -------------------- Race 4: Speed Camera -------------------- Tier 2 City: Florence Track: Speed Camera Track 2 Laps: N/A Weather: Rain Advice: You start this race on the street that starts to turn left at the end and then at the very end, turns right, onto a straightaway. On that straightaway is the speed camera. You have to figure out the best way through the left turn to be going as fast as possible on the straightaway after it. The best way that I have found is to brake on the turn early, so you can go straight through the rest of it. ------------------- Race 5: Street Race ------------------- Tier 2 City: Florence Track: Ponte Vecchio Laps: 4 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race is on the same track as was a street race in the Roadsters Series. There are some turns very close to the starting line, which means that it is very hard to get into first place early on, since the other cars get in your way and you wont have the speed to pass them. You can pass most of them in the first two turns, which should get you into about third place. Getting into first or second place will take much longer. It probably wont be until you've done most of the first lap when you'll get close enough to pass the other cars. All of the cars that you pass in this race wont stray too far behind you, so you can't afford to make any mistakes. --------------- Race 6: Hot Lap --------------- Tier 3 City: Edinburgh Track: Grassmarket East Laps: 1 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: It will be very difficult to beat this race on hard. You don't have very much time to beat it, only a few seconds more than on expert, so you have to master this track to be able to beat it. --------------- Race 7: Hot Lap --------------- Tier 3 City: Edinburgh Track: Terrace Sprint Laps: 1 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: It's just as hard to beat this race on hard as it was on the last race. You will also have to master this track to beat it on hard, and if you can do that, it isn't much harder to beat it on expert. ------------------- Race 8: Street Race ------------------- Tier 3 City: Edinburgh Track: Princess Street East Laps: 3 Weather: Sunny Advice: This is probably the hardest street race yet, it can even be hard on medium difficulty. This race starts out on Edinburgh's very long straightaway, which has a sharp right turn at the end of it. No matter what you do, you probably wont be able to pass any cars on the straightaway. On the turn at the end of the straightaway, you also might not be able to pass any cars. Just take the turn like there aren't any other cars on it. If you try to force your way past the cars on this turn, it might actually slow you down more than if you didn't pass them. On the straightaway after the turn, you might not be able to pass any cars as well, but you also might have enough speed to do so. At the end of this straightaway is a sharp left turn. Try not to hit any of the other cars here, if you do, it is easy for you to spin and hit a wall. Now you will be close enough to some of the other cars to pass them. Pass them as you go by some gentle turns and then as you take a sharp right turn. There is another right turn at the end of that street. Now you will probably be close to the first few cars. To pass them, you will have to race very well and not make any mistakes. It might take awhile for you to be able to pass them to, maybe even not on this lap. ------------------ Race 9: One on One ------------------ Tier 4 City: Edinburgh Track: Princess Street Loop Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race is MUCH easier than the last one, even on expert. This race starts on that same long straightaway and there is a left turn at the end of it. You might be able to pass the other car on this turn, you might not. That turn puts you onto another long straightaway. At the end, there is a sharp left turn. By now you should be able to pass the other car. ---------------- Race 10: Hot Lap ---------------- Tier 5 City: Sydney Track: Cumberland Street Laps: 1 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This is another hot lap where winning on hard is just about as hard as winning on expert. In fact, the time limit for expert is only one second less than the time limit for hard. The most important thing to do to beat this race on hard or expert is to perfect getting through the two sharp turns on this track with as much speed as possible. The first of those turns is the first turn other than gentle turns on the track, and the second one is the second to last turn on the track. ----------------- Race 11: Overtake ----------------- Tier 5 City: Sydney Track: Downtown Short Laps: N/A Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This race isn't that hard to beat on hard, but much harder on expert. You get less time to beat it on expert, and the seventh car isn't close to the other ones. The track itself is like a short version of the one from the last race, so you should be somewhat familiar with it. -------------------- Race 12: Street Race -------------------- Tier 6 City: Sydney Track: George St. Challenge Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This is another street race in this series that is very hard. You have to pass as many of the cars as you can in this race as soon as possible, if you don't, the cars in front can get too far ahead of you. You can start passing them on the first turn and then on the straightaway that follows it. You can also pass more of the other cars on the next turn and the street after it. At the point, you still probably wont be able to pass the first few cars. It will take a lot longer and some good driving to catch up to them. -------------------- Race 13: Street Race -------------------- Tier 6 City: Sydney Track: Sydney Harbour Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: Like the last race, this one is also pretty hard. You can pass some of the other cars in the first few turns, and then you will have to drive without screwing up to catch up to the rest of them. -------------------- Race 14: Street Race -------------------- Tier 6 City: Sydney Track: The Rocks Route Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: You can tell from the track map that this track wont be the easiest. It does have a lot of turns, but those can help you. The other cars in this race will be slowed down by all of those turns, so that gives you an advantage if you are able to get through those turns without slowing down too much. You can start passing the other cars on the street after the first turn and then pass almost all of the others on the next couple of streets. Getting into first place is harder, and you might not be able to catch up to the car in first until you have done most of the first lap. ************************************** 2.11 - Grand Touring Series ************************************** Cities: Yokohama, Hong Kong, Moscow, Stockholm, Barcelona, Washington D.C. Tiers: 6 Races: 16 (1x Timed Run, 3x Overtake, 5x Street Race, 3x One on One, 1x Cone Challenge, 2x Hot Lap, 1x Speed Camera) This series is actually a little bit easier than the last one. It's much easier to beat the hot laps and timed runs in this series, and it is much easier to get into first place on the street races here. ----------------- Race 1: Timed Run ----------------- Tier 1 City: Yokohama Track: Honcho dori Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: This timed run isn't nearly as hard as the ones from the last series were, but that doesn't mean that you have plenty of time to complete this one. You can't afford to slow down at all by screwing up on turns if you want to beat it on hard. The track itself is probably the easiest in the game, all it consists of is four straightaways connected by four right turns. ---------------- Race 2: Overtake ---------------- Tier 1 City: Yokohama Track: Kishamichi Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: This race isn't very difficult, there are lots of long straightaways for you to build up speed on to pass the other cars and you don't have less time to beat the race on expert than on hard. ------------------- Race 3: Street Race ------------------- Tier 1 City: Yokohama Track: Yokohama Challenge Laps: 3 Weather: Sunny Advice: Thankfully, this race isn't nearly as hard as the street races in the last series were. You can get into first or second place after the first few turns. The lead computer-controlled car will always be close behind you if you are in first, so you will have to block him to stop him from passing you. ------------------ Race 4: One on One ------------------ Tier 2 City: Hong Kong Track: The Convention Centres Laps: 2 Weather: Rain Advice: This race is really easy. You can pass your opponent right away to get into first and the track this race takes place on is only a few straightaways with some turns connecting them. By the time you get to the end of the straightaway that you start on, you should be close to the other car or should have passed it already. ---------------------- Race 5: Cone Challenge ---------------------- Tier 2 City: Hong Kong Track: Hennessey Road Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This is probably the hardest cone challenge in the entire Kudos World Series. Most of the cone gates are far apart, and there are lots of very narrow streets. On a few of those narrow streets, there area even some cone gates that are barely wider than your car. A lot of the turns on this tracks don't have any gates in or near them, so you will have to slide through them, many of which are narrow. It requires a lot of skill and patience to beat this race on expert or even hard. ------------------- Race 6: Street Race ------------------- Tier 2 City: Hong Kong Track: Harbour Run Laps: 5 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race is a lot easier than the street races in the last series were. As usual, you start on a straightaway. You can pass most of the other cars before you get to the end of the straightaway, where there is a left turn. On that turn, you can easily get up to second place. Now you will be in the divided tunnel. At the end of it, there is a left turn and then a straightaway. This is probably the only chance you will have to pass the car in first place. If you don't, it might get too far ahead of you. ---------------- Race 7: Overtake ---------------- Tier 3 City: Moscow Track: KGB Corner Laps: N/A Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: . The track that this race takes place on has a lot of the usual wide roads in Moscow. Since there are so many wide roads on this track and the turns aren't very sharp, it isn't all that difficult to beat. You even get a little bit more time to beat it on expert than on most of the other difficulties. --------------- Race 8: Hot Lap --------------- Tier 3 City: Moscow Track: Red Square 1 Laps: 1 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: The track this race takes place on is long and obviously a bit complex, but it isn't as hard to beat on hard as you might think. You don't have to race perfectly to beat it on hard like you did in hot laps and timed runs in the last series, but you still can't afford to make huge mistakes. ------------------- Race 9: Street Race ------------------- Tier 3 City: Moscow Track: Kremlin 2 Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: It's very easy to get into first place at the beginning of this race, even on expert. You can get in front of some of them on the first turn, and then pass the rest of them on the second one, which is a sharp turn that they don't take very well. After that, all you have to do is not let any other cars pass you for the rest of the race. ------------------- Race 10: One on One ------------------- Tier 4 City: Stockholm Track: Speed Freak Laps: 1 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: Even though the name of the track this race takes place on is Speed Freak, there are too many turns in it for you to go very fast. The race itself isn't very difficult, you can pass the car that you're racing against on either the first or the second turn. ----------------- Race 11: Overtake ----------------- Tier 5 City: Barcelona Track: Place de Jaume Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: This race isn't very hard, the track doesn't have too many turns and you don't get much less time to complete it as you raise the difficulty. All the track consists of is four main roads connected by turns. ---------------- Race 12: Hot Lap ---------------- Tier 5 City: Barcelona Track: Catalan Challenge Laps: 1 Weather: Sunny Advice: This hot lap is a little bit harder than the last one, but still easier than the ones in the last series. You wont be able to afford to make any small mistakes, though. ------------------- Race 13: One on One ------------------- Tier 5 City: Barcelona Track: Catedral Laps: 5 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: The track this race takes place on is very short. It starts with a very long right turn. On hard and lower difficulties, you can easily pass the other car here. You might even be able to do it on expert, too. Just after that turn, there is the four turns in pairs. This time the first pair is a left then right and the second pair is a right then left. Cut through these turns. If you didn't pass the other car in that turn, it is easy to pass it here. If you have to, you can even bump into that other car to even give yourself a little advantage. --------------------- Race 14: Speed Camera --------------------- Tier 6 City: Washington D.C. Track: Speed Camera Track 1 Laps: N/A Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: The turns on this track are right at the beginning. The first turn is a right turn (Which you wont be going fast enough to have to slow down for) and there is a left turn that you do need to slow down for right after it. That turn takes you onto a street that turns to the left and then has a gentle right turn onto a straightaway at the end of it. As you could guess, the speed camera is on that straightaway. In order to get a good speed, you have to perfect taking the second turn with as much speed as possible. -------------------- Race 15: Street Race -------------------- Tier 6 City: Washington D.C. Track: Capitol Thrill 2 Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: You race this race on the same track that the last street race in Washington D.C. was on (Back in the American Muscle Series). If you can't remember, that was the race that had a few gentle turns followed by a sharper right at the beginning, and the hardest part of the race was getting through those without the other cars blocking you. That's also the hardest part of this race. If you can avoid the other cars in those turns, you can get near the front of the pack on the first big turn. After that, you can get into first on one of the next turns. -------------------- Race 16: Street Race -------------------- Tier 6 City: Washington D.C. Track: The Tour Laps: 3 Weather: Sunny Advice: There are a lot of turns on the track that this race is on, and a lot of them are very sharp turns. Because of that, it is easy to screw up and lose the race. As usual, you can pass all of the cars that you are racing against on the first few turns on the track. ************************************** 2.12 - Track Specials Series ************************************** Cities: Nurburgring, Stockholm, Florence, Moscow Tiers: 7 Races: 17 (5x Hot Lap, 4x Street Race, 3x One on One, 2x Overtake, 2x Timed Run, 1x Speed Camera) You get to race on the Nurburgring track for the first time in this series. Instead of racing on the whole track, you will race on segments of it. These segments can only be raced on in this series, and not in time trial or multiplayer. For the entire series, you will probably want to use the Noble M12 GTO3, because of its high acceleration. If you use it, this series actually isn't all that hard. --------------- Race 1: Hot Lap --------------- Tier 1 City: Nurburgring Track: Nordschleife 2 Laps: 1 Weather: Sunny Advice: This is the first race that you will do on a part of the Nurburgring track. The hardest part of this particular race is deciding if you should or shouldn't brake on some of the turns. You will build up a lot of speed on this track, but a lot of the turns can be taken without slowing down at all. If you can remember which turns you slow down for and which you don't, this race isn't that hard to beat. This race starts out on a very long straightaway. Eventually, you start to go down a hill and the road starts to make a left turn. Don't slow down for this one. Once you are at the bottom of the hill, you will start to go up again. There are two turns at the top that you don't have to slow down for. Not too far after that, there is a gentle left turn and then a right turn. You will have to slow down for that right turn. There is a left turn shortly after that which you do not need to slow down for, since you wont be going very fast. Right after that, there is a right turn that you have to slow down for. It's easy to miss this turn, since part of the road that is blocked off continues forward and it looks like that is the direction the tracks goes in. The road will start to go downhill again and there will be a left turn on the hill. You have to slow down for this one. As you are going down hill, there are two right turns. You don't have to slow down for either of them. There will be two left turns coming up and then a right turn just after the second left. You only have to slow down for the right turn. Not too far after that, the road makes a right turn, a left turn and then another right. You only need to slow down for the third turn, and you don't have to slow down very much. There are two more turns after that one. The first one is a right, which you have to slow down for, and the second is a left, which you don't have to slow down for. After those turns, there is a straightaway. The finish line is on this straightaway. ------------------- Race 2: Street Race ------------------- Tier 1 City: Nurburgring Track: Nordschleife 3 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: This race takes place on almost the same segment of the Nurburgring track as the last race. You start in the area at the end of the straightaway at the beginning of the last race, where you guy down a hill and then up one. This track ends a little ways past where the last one did. At the end of the straightaway that the last race ended on, there are two right turns that you don't have to slow down for. Past those, there are two left turns that you don't have to slow down for. On hard and lower difficulties, you can pass all of the other cars on the straightaway that you start on. On expert, you will have to have the car in the class with the best acceleration (The Noble M12 GTO3) to be able to get in front of the car in first. --------------- Race 3: Hot Lap --------------- Tier 1 City: Nurburgring Track: Nordschleife 4 Laps: 1 Weather: Sunny Advice: You get a lot of time in hard to beat this race. I was able to beat it on hard after crashing and ending up in the dirt for awhile. Of course, you will have to do much better than that to beat it on expert. The track segment this race is on is on a completely different part of the track than the last two (Actually, I think it might start near where the last two ended, but I can't be sure). When you start this race, there will be two right turns on the track not too far apart in front of you. You don't have to slow down for either of them. After those right turns, there are two left turns. You also don't have to slow down for these. A straightaway with a left turn at the end comes after those. You don't have to slow down for that left turn, but you do have to slow down for the long right turn that comes after it. A lot of turns come after that one, but you don't have to slow down for them until you start going uphill. There is a left turn on the top of the hill that you have to slow down a little bit to make. A right turn that you don't have to slow down for comes after that and there is a left turn that you do have to slow down for right after that one. There is a right turn right after that one and then the road is straight for the short distance to the finish line. --------------- Race 4: Hot Lap --------------- Tier 1 City: Nurburgring Track: Nordschleife 5 Laps: 1 Weather: Sunny Advice: This track starts by the first turn on the last track that you had to slow down for. You reach the spot where the last track ended when you get to the only checkpoint on this track. There are a few turns after that that you don't have to slow down for, and then one you do. You can tell which one you have to slow down for because it is the one right after all the markings on the ground (Whatever they are supposed to be). Right after that turn, there is a right turn that you don't have to slow down for. The next turn you come to is a right turn, and you do have to slow down for it. After that there will be a left turn that you don't have to slow down for and then a series of right turns that you don't have to slow down for. The first left turn after all of those is one that you will have to slow down for. The finish line comes right after that turn. ------------------ Race 5: One on One ------------------ Tier 2 City: Nurburgring Track: Nordschleife 6 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: The track that this race is on starts by where the checkpoint on the last one was and it continues past where the finish line was on that track. On this one, there is a checkpoint by where the finish line on the last track was. Since the area where the race starts doesn't have any turns that you have to slow down for for awhile, you can catch up to the other car here. If you can't pass it, you can on the first turn that you have to slow down for (A left). After you pass by the checkpoint and the end of the last track, there is a straightaway with a right turn in it that you don't have to slow down for. At the end of this straightaway, there is a left turn that you do have to slow down for. Right after that turn, there will be a left turn and then a right turn. You don't have to slow down for either one. Another straightaway comes after that, although it has a small left turn in it that you don't have to slow down for, so it isn't really a straightaway. At the end of it (You can tell when you are at the end by looking at the track map, there are also blue signs on the side of the road that are only at the end of this road) there is a right turn that you have to slow down for. After that, there are only a few turns that you don't have to slow down for between here and the end. ------------------- Race 6: Street Race ------------------- Tier 3 City: Stockholm Track: Gamla Island Hopping Laps: 3 Weather: Sunny Advice: As usual for a race in Stockholm, you start on the long street that makes a few gentle right turns. You should be able to pass all of the other cars, except the first place car if you are playing on expert, on this street. When you get to the end of it, there is a very sharp turn. You can use this turn to get in front of any other cars in front of you, but that requires you to take the turn perfectly, which isn't easy to do. ---------------- Race 7: Overtake ---------------- Tier 3 City: Stockholm Track: Gamla Oval Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: This race isn't too hard, the cars that you have to pass aren't all that far apart and you have the same amount of time to beat it on expert as you do on every difficulty except novice. Plus, there aren't that many turns in this track, although it is easy to go too fast for the ones that are. ----------------- Race 8: Timed Run ----------------- Tier 3 City: Stockholm Track: Bridges Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: Beating this race on hard isn't very difficult. You actually get a lot of time to do it, enough to still win even after making a small mistake or two. --------------- Race 9: Hot Lap --------------- Tier 3 City: Stockholm Track: Island Hop Laps: 1 Weather: Rain Advice: You get a lot of time to beat this race on hard, enough to still beat it after making a few small mistakes. At first it might look like this track follows the same path as the one in the last race, but there are actually a lot of differences. ------------------- Race 10: One on One ------------------- Tier 4 City: Stockholm Track: Northern Laps: 1 Weather: Rain Advice: This race is very short and very easy. You can get into first place, even on expert, right on the first stretch of road. That first stretch of road isn't long, either. After that, you just have to stay in front of it for the whole lap, which is the entire race. ----------------- Race 11: Overtake ----------------- Tier 5 City: Florence Track: Piazza della Signoria 2 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: You get a full minute less on expert to beat the race than on hard, but that minute isn't very important. You have so much time on hard, you could slam head first into a wall a couple of times and still beat the race. Expert is harder, and you wont be able to beat it if you crash much. ------------------ Race 12: Timed Run ------------------ Tier 5 City: Florence Track: Piazza della Signoria 1 Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: There's really nothing special about this race. On hard, you get enough time to beat it without trying to hard and you can even make a few small mistakes and beat it on hard. And of course, beating it on expert will be much more difficult. ---------------- Race 13: Hot Lap ---------------- Tier 5 City: Florence Track: Duomo 2 Laps: 1 Weather: Sunny Advice: This hot lap is on the difficult side. It might take a few tried to beat it on hard. In order to beat it on hard, you wont be able to make any mistakes. The easiest place to make some mistakes is on the two gentle left turns at the beginning. You will have to slow down for them since the car you will be in is fast, but you can't slow down too much for them. You have to find the right balance of speed for them if you wish to do good in this race. -------------------- Race 14: Street Race -------------------- Tier 5 City: Florence Track: Battistero 1 Laps: 3 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: There are two gentle left turns at the beginning of this race that are a real pain. The cars you are racing against will get in the way when you try to take these turns, and that can really slow you down. The best way I have found to avoid them is to go to the outside of the first turn and then the inside of the second. If you can avoid them, you will be close to the first few cars. On hard, you can pass any other cars on this long road that comes after the gentle turns. On expert, you can't get into first this soon. You can't catch up to the car in first until you've gone through a few more turns. ------------------- Race 15: One on One ------------------- Tier 6 City: Moscow Track: KGB Corner Laps: 3 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: You can get into first place right on the street that you start on. On hard, you can just drive right past the other car and then not let it pass you for the rest of the race. It's a little harder to get into first on this street while playing on expert. You will have to draft the other car as much as possible and then pass it when you are as close to it as possible. --------------------- Race 16: Speed Camera --------------------- Tier 7 City: Nurburgring Track: Nordschleife 12 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: The sharp turn in this speed camera track comes in the middle. When you start, there will be a lot of gentle turns in the road, but you wont have to slow down for any of them. You will have to slow down for that sharp turn, which is a banked left turn, though. Not only is that turn banked, but there is a special surface on top of the tarmac in it that gives you better traction, so you can take it faster. After that turn, there is a long stretch of road that has lots of gentle turns that you don't have to slow down for in it and then the speed camera at the end. -------------------- Race 17: Street Race -------------------- Tier 7 City: Nurburgring Track: Nordschleife 10 Laps: 1 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race is one of the hardest street races yet. The other cars aren't what makes it difficult, it's the track. This track is on a very long stretch of the Nurburgring track where there are plenty of places where it's easy to screw up and end up in the dirt on the side of the track, which will almost certainly cause you to lose the race. The race starts on a long stretch of the road where there is first a gentle right turn, a gentle left turn a little while after that and then a right turn that you will have to slow down for. Before you get to that turn that you have to slow down for, you can pass most of the other cars and get into second or third place. After that right turn, there are a few gentle turns and then a bigger left turn. This left turn is banked and has the surface of the tarmac covered with with something that gives you better traction in it. You will obviously have to slow down for this turn. Once you are through that turn, you should be able to pass the other cars. If you still can't, you can use the rest of the track to catch up to them, although it is far too easy to end up getting further and further behind them. Now you will be on a stretch of the track where there are first three gentle rights that you don't have to slow down for, then three gentle lefts that you don't have to slow down for. Right after that last left, there is a sharper right turn that you have to slow down for. The next few turns will be right turns that you don't have to slow down for, although it might seem life you do. After those, there is a left turn that you don't have to slow down for that is followed by a right that you do have to slow down for. There is another right turn not too far after that (You shouldn't have to slow down for it) and then another left turn as you go down a hill, you will have to slow down for this left turn. As you reach the bottom of the hill, there is a right turn. You don't have to slow down to make it. The next turn will be a right turn that you can take at full speed and after a little straightaway, there will be a left turn that you do have to slow down for. Now you will be on a long stretch of the road that has a lot of turns in it that you don't have to slow down for. Those turns cancel each other out, so the road mostly goes straight for awhile and you can see where there is a right turn at the end, with a red and white striped barrier behind it. You shouldn't have to slow down for that turn much, if at all. Now there will be a long series of turns that you don't have to slow down for. Two rights, a left, another right and then another left. After all of those, there will be a long right turn that you have to slow down for. At the end of that turn, there are blue signs on either side of the track. Behind them is a left turn that you may have to slow down for, depending on your speed. The next turn is a banked left turn with the tarmac that gives you extra traction in it. You obviously have to slow down for this turn. Now you will be close to the end of the track. All that's left is a gentle left that you don't have to slow down for and two rights that you also don't have to slow down for. Past those, there is a straightaway that the finish line is on. ************************************** 2.13 - Extreme Series ************************************** Cities: Chicago, Washington D.C., Barcelona, Yokohama Tiers: 6 Races: 17 (2x Timed Run, 1x Overtake, 7x Street Race, 4x One on One, 1x Cone Challenge, 1x Hot Lap, 1x Speed Camera) This series is much harder than the last one. The first three races are especially difficult, and so are the street race. In most of the street race, the other cars will get in the way on the first turn, and the only way to do well in the race is to get through those turns without hitting the other cars. ----------------- Race 1: Timed Run ----------------- Tier 1 City: Chicago Track: River Crossing Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This race is very difficult. It is very easy to screw up on this track that this race takes place on, and you don't get very much time to beat this race. On hard, you wont be able to make any mistakes and will have to drive nearly flawlessly to win. It's much easier to beat it on medium, you can still win even after slamming headfirst into a wall. ---------------- Race 2: Overtake ---------------- Tier 1 City: Chicago Track: In The Loop Laps: N/A Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This track is also easy to screw up on, but once you get the hang of, the race isn't too hard. You get plenty of time to beat it on hard, just as long as you don't screw up. You also get plenty of time to beat it on expert, even more than you get to beat it on hard. It might actually be easier to beat this race on expert than on hard. ------------------- Race 3: Street Race ------------------- Tier 1 City: Chicago Track: Chicago River Tour Laps: 3 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This race is a little bit easier than the last two. Like in any street race, you can get into first place on the first two or three turns. Once you are in first place, the other cars will never be very far behind you. Because of that, you can't afford to screw up at all. ------------------ Race 4: One on One ------------------ Tier 2 City: Chicago Track: Lower Wacker Run Laps: 1 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This race is pretty easy, even on expert. In fact, I actually found it easier on expert than on hard. On hard, you can easily pass the other car right as you make the first big turn, which is a left turn onto a bridge. On expert, it's easier just to pass the other car on the straightaway before that turn. I was also able to get a bigger lead in expert than in hard. ------------------ Race 5: One on One ------------------ Tier 2 City: Chicago Track: West On Wacker Laps: 1 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race is also easy, although it is a little bit harder than the last one. On both hard and expert, you can get into first place on the first right turn, which comes after you cross a bridge. The other car will slow down way too much for it, giving you a great chance to pass. ------------------ Race 6: One on One ------------------ Tier 2 City: Chicago Track: The Miracle Mile Laps: 1 Weather: Sunny Advice: Not as easy as the last two races, but still not that difficult. On both hard and expert, you can pass the other car on the first turn. Force yourself in front of it if you must. It probably wont be very far behind you for the rest of the race, so you might have to block it to prevent it from passing you. ----------------- Race 7: Timed Run ----------------- Tier 3 City: Washington D.C. Track: Square Dancin' Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: This timed run is much easier than the last one. You still can't afford to make any mistakes if you want to beat this one on hard, but the track this one is on is much easier. It's mostly straightaways. ---------------------- Race 8: Cone Challenge ---------------------- Tier 3 City: Washington D.C. Track: Capitol Thrill Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: It's very easy to run into some of the cone gates here, making this race difficult and annoying. If you can manage to not hit any of them, the race isn't too hard. There are some parts where the cone gates are far apart, but only in places where you can get a lot of speed. --------------- Race 9: Hot Lap --------------- Tier 3 City: Washington D.C. Track: Capitol Thrill 2 Laps: 1 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: The track that this race takes place on has a lot of turns in it, and those turns make it very easy to make mistakes. You wont be able to afford to make any if you want to beat the race on hard, so you might have to play this race a few times to get good at it before you will be able to beat it on hard. -------------------- Race 10: Street Race -------------------- Tier 4 City: Washington D.C. Track: Northside Slide Laps: 4 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: The other cars can be a real problem in this race. They will get in your way on the first turn, making it very difficult to take it without losing too much speed. You have to take that turn with as much speed as possible to beat this race, too. Ideally, you can get into second place after the turn, but that requires you to take it perfectly. If you don't, you will have a lot of catching up to do. On the turn that follows, you can get into first if you took the first turn well. If not, it can take much longer to get into first, assuming the car in first doesn't have a huge lead. -------------------- Race 11: Street Race -------------------- Tier 4 City: Washington D.C. Track: Up and Over Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: Like in the last race, all of the other cars will get in your way on the first turn in this one. Fortunately, that first turn is a sharp turn this time around. Even on expert, you can push your way in front of all of the other cars on that turn. Just stay on the right as you approach the turn, and then take the turn on the inside. If you have to, push any other cars out of the way. Once in first, you have to keep it for the rest of the race. The other cars will probably start to slowly catch up to you, so that wont be easy. -------------------- Race 12: Street Race -------------------- Tier 4 City: Washington D.C. Track: The Tour Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: Again, the other cars will get in your way at the beginning of the race. This time, it isn't as easy to get into first place. There are some gentle turns right at the start that are followed by a sharper right turn. You can pass a few of the other cars in the gentle turns, and then pass most of the rest on the right turn. Since the other cars will be very close to you in this turn, you might hit them and end up crashing. It can be very difficult to get through this turn without having one of the other cars mess you up. Once you get through this turn cleanly, you can get into second place on the next street. You probably wont be able to get first on the next turn, but there is a long straightaway after that turn and you can use it to catch up to the lead car. --------------------- Race 13: Speed Camera --------------------- Tier 5 City: Barcelona Track: Speed Camera Track 2 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: The turns in this speed camera track are right at the beginning. There is a sharp left followed by a sharp right, and then a wide right turn onto the very long straightaway in this city. The speed camera is at the end of it. Those first two turns aren't nearly as important as the third. In order to beat this race on expert, you will have to get through that last turn with as much speed as possible. ------------------- Race 14: One on One ------------------- Tier 5 City: Barcelona Track: Barri Gotic Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: You can get a big edge in this race if you don't mind being cheap. When the other car slows down for the first turn, you can run into it and make it slam into the wall. If you do this, you can get into first very easily and keep the other car a little ways behind you for awhile, even on hard. The other car will still probably catch up to you eventually, so you still will have to deal with it later in the race. -------------------- Race 15: Street Race -------------------- Tier 6 City: Yokohama Track: Yokohama Bay Tour Laps: 3 Weather: Sunny Advice: The other cars will really get in your way in this race. On the first turn, you will have to find a way to get past them without hitting many of them and slowing down. If you can do that, you should be in around third place after the turn. You can pass the other cars on the short straightaway after the turn and on the next turn. If you didn't get through the first turn cleanly, you probably wont be able to catch up to the car that is in first. -------------------- Race 16: Street Race -------------------- Tier 6 City: Yokohama Track: Seaside Loop Laps: 3 Weather: Rain Advice: Like in the last race, the first turn is the most difficult part of the race. The other cars will pretty much block it, making it very hard to get through it without losing a lot of speed. Doing that is critical, if you don't get through it alright, the first three cars will get very far ahead of you. If you can get through the turn alright, you have to deal with those other three cars. You can pass some of them on the straightaway following the first turn, and then you can pass the last one in the next turn. Once in first, it isn't easy to hold it. If you make the slightest mistake, you will probably get passed. -------------------- Race 17: Street Race -------------------- Tier 6 City: Yokohama Track: Minato Mirai Laps: 3 Weather: Rain Advice: The other cars aren't as much of a problem in this race as they were in the last two races. They still do get in the way, especially on the first turn, but not as much. After that first turn, you wont be all that close to the car in first. When you get to the long straightaway between the second and third turns, you can do a bit of catching up to it. When you get to the third turn, you should be able to take first place. ************************************** 2.14 - Ultimate Series ************************************** Cities: Nurburgring, Florence, Stockholm, Moscow, Hong Kong, Yokohama, Sydney, Washington D.C., Barcelona, Edinburgh Tiers: 13 Races: 19 (14x Street Race, 4x Cone Challenge, 1x Speed Camera) Given that this is the last series, some of the races are surprisingly easy. At the end of this series, you will finally get to race on the whole Nurburgring track. Once you finish the race on it (Which is the very last race), you will have unlocked the whole track to play on. ------------------- Race 1: Street Race ------------------- Tier 1 City: Nurburgring Track: Nordschleife 7 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: This race starts the series off easy. On hard, you can get in front of all of the other cars right away and once you are past them, they wont get near you again. On expert, it takes longer to get into first. Right away, you can get into third. It can take a very long time to pass the other two cars. The one in second place can probably be passed somewhere around the checkpoint on the track, and it might not be until the end of the track when you can pass the other one. The stretch of the Nurburgring track this track takes place on isn't very hard. There are only a few turns that you have to slow down for. The first one is a sharp right turn that is right at the beginning of the track. The others are closer to the end of the track. If you look at the track map, you will see that to the right of the checkpoint, there is a part where you can see that the track goes right, left and then right again and looks like a dip in a straight line on the track map. That left turn in that 'dip' is a sharp turn that you have to slow down for. A right turn after that is also kind of sharp, and you may need to slow down for it. At the every end of the track, there is a sharp right turn. It might not look like you have to take it by looking at the track map, but you do. You also have to slow down for it. All of the other turns on the track are gentle ones that you should be able to take at full speed. ------------------- Race 2: Street Race ------------------- Tier 1 City: Nurburgring Track: Nordschleife 8 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: The track that this race takes place on has a few more turns that you have to slow down for than the last one, but the overall race is easier. It starts on the stretch of road that comes before the last turn on that track. On hard, you can get into first place before that turn and keep it for the rest of the race. After that turn, there are a few gentle turns and then a sharp left turn that is banked and has the special tarmac that gives you better traction. You can get into first place on this turn on expert fairly easily, since the other cars take it a little slowly. After that, there are a series of three gentle right turns and then two gentle left turns. You only have to slow down for the last one, the second left. Right after that is a right turn, you might have to slow down for it, depending on how fast you went through the last turn. The next turn is a right turn, and you will have to slow down for it. After that, there are only about three more turns. You have to slow down for the last one, which is a left turn that comes right before the finish line. ------------------- Race 3: Street Race ------------------- Tier 1 City: Nurburgring Track: Nordschleife 9 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: This race is a little bit harder than the last one. Right off the bat, there is a right turn. You can pass most of the other cars here. Not too long after that, there is a sharp left turn that you have to slow down for. On hard, you should be able to get into first place here. On expert, you can get into second or third here. You will then have to use the rest of the race to catch up to and pass the other cars. After that, there is a gentle left turn as you start to go down a hill. Now you will be in an area where the area of the track between the barriers on each side of the road is straight, but the actual paved part of the road is not. There will be a few gentle turns in this area and then a right turn at the end that you have to slow down for. There will be a lot of gentle turns in it for awhile and then once you are past a checkpoint, the road will start to go uphill. At the top, there is a left turn. You will have to slow down a lot to make this turn. Not too far after that, there is a banked left turn that has the special tarmac to give you better traction. You obviously have to slow down for it. After that, there is another right that you have to slow down for and then gentle turns that lead up to the finish line. ------------------- Race 4: Street Race ------------------- Tier 2 City: Nurburgring Track: Nordschleife 11 Laps: 1 Weather: Sunny Advice: This part of the Nurburgring track is very long, in fact, you probably race on around half of the full track. In order to win, you wont be able to screw up very much. Most (If not all) of where you race here is on parts of the track that you have already been on. Hopefully you still remember where some of the sharper turns are and where you have to brake to take turns. It will take awhile to pass most of the other cars on this track. You start on the very long straightaway, and you can pass most of the cars by the end of it. Once you are at the end, you should be in first if you are playing this on hard or second if you are on expert. If you are doing it on expert, it will probably take a very long time to catch up the the other car. ---------------------- Race 5: Cone Challenge ---------------------- Tier 3 City: Florence Track: Uffizi Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This cone challenge is surprisingly easy. There are no tight spaces where it is easy to hit a wall or a cone, and there are no very long stretches between cone gates. That makes it easy to get a combo through the whole race and beat it on expert. ------------------- Race 6: Street Race ------------------- Tier 3 City: Florence Track: Battistero 1 Laps: 4 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: There are a lot of sharp turns on the track that this race takes place on, and it is easy to not brake enough for them. That causes this race to be a bit difficult. The car in first place will be very fast, too, making it even more difficult. Just past the starting line are the two gentle left turns in a row. You can use them to get ahead of some of the other cars, but you have to also beware the other cars. It's easy to run into them in these turns. On the straightaway that follows the turns, you can pass most of the other cars and get into second place. On both hard and expert, the first place car will be far ahead at this point. The only way to catch up to it is to drive perfectly. Once you do manage to catch up to it and pass it, you wont be able to afford to make any mistakes. ---------------------- Race 7: Cone Challenge ---------------------- Tier 4 City: Stockholm Track: Northern 3 Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: Like the last cone challenge, this one is also surprisingly easy, especially for one in Stockholm. There are no narrow streets or very sharp turns on the track that this takes place on. The only thing that might be the least bit problematic are cone gates that are spaced far apart. On the street that the first checkpoint is on and the street after that, all of the gates are far apart. You will have to go fast to get between them with a combo going, but they aren't so far apart that you have to be going as fast as possible to make it. Overall, it's very easy to keep a combo going for the whole race. ------------------- Race 8: Street Race ------------------- Tier 4 City: Stockholm Track: Speed Freak Laps: 4 Weather: Sunny Advice: On both hard and expert, you can get into first place fairly quickly. You should be able to move up to around third place on the long street that the race starts on. At the end of it, there is a very sharp right turn. You can use this turn to pass the other cars, since they take it very slowly. Keeping first place will be much harder. The race is long and this track has a lot of turns on it. The other cars will never be very far behind you. ------------------- Race 9: Street Race ------------------- Tier 5 City: Moscow Track: St. Basil's Circle Laps: 5 Weather: Sunny Advice: Unlike in the last street race, once you are in first place in this one, you can get a very big lead on the other cars. You can't get into first as fast in that last one, but you still can do it rather quickly. Right at the beginning of the race, there is a long and wide left turn. The other cars take this very slowly and you can use it to get up to third place. After that comes a long straightaway. Draft the cars in front of you to get close to them and pass them if you can. The turns after it are where you can get into first. Once in first, drive without making any big mistakes and you can probably get a lead of a few seconds on the next car. ------------------- Race 10: Street Race ------------------- Tier 6 City: Hong Kong Track: Cotton Tree Drive Laps: 5 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: There are a lot of difficult turns on the track that this race takes place on, and the race itself is rather long. However, you can get into first place right away. There is a sharp right turn on a freeway that is very close to the starting line. You can pass many of the cars before you get to that turn, and then pass the rest on the turn itself. Once you are in first, keeping it will be much harder. It will be difficult because all of the turns on the track. It is easy to screw up on many of them, and if you screw up a lot, you will end up in second or third place and then even further back. If you can get through the race without making many mistakes, you can get very far ahead of the other cars and the race will be a bit easy. -------------------- Race 11: Street Race -------------------- Tier 7 City: Yokohama Track: Yokohama Challenge Laps: 4 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This is one of those races where the other cars will get in your way a lot. It is most evident on the first turn. On the way to the turn, you can pass the two cars closest to you. In the turn, you will have to deal with the other five of them. Avoid hitting them at all costs, it will slow you down too much if you hit any of them. By the turn after that, you should be able to get up to third place. Getting into first or second after that wont be easy. You can't afford to screw up at all and it will take a long time to catch up to the other cars. It might not be until somewhere around the first checkpoint when you can catch up to the second place car, and will be even longer to catch up to the one in first. ----------------------- Race 12: Cone Challenge ----------------------- Tier 8 City: Sydney Track: The Wharf Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race follows the trend of easy cone challenges in this series. It's very easy to keep a combo going for the whole thing. The only trouble spot is right at the beginning. There is a right turn, and then two cone gates. You might have to start a small slide in between those two gates to keep a combo going between them. Also, right around when you pass the first checkpoint, you go onto the street that is divided in the middle. You can go on either side of it, and both sides have the same number of cone gates. At the end of that street, there is a long stretch where there is only the second checkpoint and no gates until the end. You have to go fast here, but not as fast as you might think at first. -------------------- Race 13: Street Race -------------------- Tier 8 City: Sydney Track: The Rocks Route Laps: 3 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race is actually very easy, especially compared to the last street race you did. On expert, you can even get into first place on the first turn with a little luck. That probably wont happen, but the turn that comes after that is just as good to get into first place on. Even if you aren't in first then, you have plenty of time to catch up. There are a lot of turns on this track and it is very long, but this is one of the tracks where the others cars don't take the turns very well and it is easy to pass them on those turns. ----------------------- Race 14: Cone Challenge ----------------------- Tier 9 City: Chicago Track: East Kinzie Crossover Laps: 2 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This is the last cone challenge in the series, so it's also the last one in Kudos World Series. Like the other ones in the series, it's actually pretty easy. There is only one spot on it that is difficult, although that is a big portion of the track. It is the area from the first checkpoint to the second checkpoint. Right before the first checkpoint, there is a long gap between a cone gate and the checkpoint. You have to be going fast to keep a combo going between the two. You cross a bridge after that and then are on a wide street. There are only two cone gates on this wide street, and they are very far apart. You should probably make yourself slide after going through the first one so that you can keep a combo going. After that, there is the bridge with the divider in the middle. There are two cone gates on each side of the divider, so it doesn't matter which side you take. There is a large gap between that second gate and the second checkpoint. You have to be going fast to keep a combo going between the two. -------------------- Race 15: Street Race -------------------- Tier 9 City: Chicago Track: East On Wacker Laps: 5 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: The other cars do get in your way a bit at the beginning of this race, but it still isn't a very hard race. Not as easy as the last street race, but still not all that hard. As usual, the key to getting in first place is on the first two or three turns, especially the first two (Which are right next to each other). The hardest part of this race is getting through those turns without the other cars hitting you. If you can, you should be able to get into first place on hard after them and somewhere around second on expert. Then you can use the straightaway that follows and the turn after it to get into first. Once you are in first, the other cars wont be very far behind you. That isn't a big deal, since there aren't that many turns on this track and then ones that are aren't very easy to screw up on. --------------------- Race 16: Speed Camera --------------------- Tier 10 City: Washington D.C. Track: Speed Camera Track 2 Laps: N/A Weather: Sunny Advice: The turns on this speed camera track are a pain. Both of them are the turns where you have to go around a statue in the middle of an intersection. On the first one, you only have to go around it to the right. On the second one, you have to go around it on the right and then make a left turn. It isn't easy to get a good speed on this track because of that second one. You will have to practice getting through it with a high speed to beat this race on expert. -------------------- Race 17: Street Race -------------------- Tier 11 City: Barcelona Track: Catalan Challenge Laps: 5 Weather: Sunny Advice: This race is much harder than the last few street races. There really is no good place to pass the other cars at the beginning of the race. You can pass a few of them on the first turn, but the turns after that are no good. You will end up having to try to catch up to any cars in front of you and then pass them. Of course, that isn't easy to do, since you wont be able to make any mistakes if you want to catch up to them. -------------------- Race 18: Street Race -------------------- Tier 12 City: Edinburgh Track: Grassmarket West Laps: 6 Weather: Clear (Night) Advice: This race is much harder than the last few street races. Getting into first place isn't that hard, but keeping it is. On hard, you will be able to get into first place on the third turn. On expert, you should be able to get into second in that turn. After that, you can pass the other car on one of the next turns. Once in first, you wont be able to make any mistakes at all. If you do, you will be passed by a few of the other cars, and you might not be able to catch up to them again. -------------------- Race 19: Street Race -------------------- Tier 13 City: Nurburgring Track: Nordschleife 1 Laps: 2 Weather: Sunny Advice: This is it, the last race of Kudos World Series. You will finally get to race on the whole Nurburgring track in this race. The track is very long and it is easy to screw up somewhere along one of the two laps you have to do on it. Because of that, I recommend you try this race on medium the first time. It is very easy to win on medium, because the other cars will be very slow. They are so slow, I was more than a full minute ahead of them when I beat the race for the first time, on medium. Doing it on medium the first time lets you get a feel for the whole track without having to worry about losing the race if you just make a small mistake, such as ending up in the dirt after taking a turn with too much speed. On hard and expert, it takes a long time to get into first or second place. Don't expect to right off the bat. You will have to speed a lot of time catching up to the cars in front. =============================================================================== 3. Car List =============================================================================== This is a listing of all of the cars in the games, with their stats as they are in the game (From 1-10) as well as their cost in Kudos Tokens. For cars that say N/A next to cost, no Kudos Tokens are needed to use them, they are open by default. There are also five other cars with N/A next to the cost. You get these by beating Kudos World Series with certain medals. For those, I include what medals you have to have to get those cars. ************************************** 3.1 - Compact Sports Class ************************************** ------------- MINI Cooper S ------------- Top Speed: 3 Acceleration: 2 Power Sliding: 2 Handling: 6 Cost: N/A ----------------- Seat Leon Cupra R ----------------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 3 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 2 Cost: N/A ------------------------- Volkswagen New Beetle RSi ------------------------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 2 Power Sliding: 1 Handling: 1 Cost: N/A ------------- Ford Focus RS ------------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 4 Power Sliding: 4 Handling: 5 Cost: 3 Kudos Tokens ---------------------- Honda Civic Type-R (J) ---------------------- Top Speed: 3 Acceleration: 2 Power Sliding: 2 Handling: 5 Cost: 1 Kudos Token --------------- Renault Clio V6 --------------- Top Speed: 3 Acceleration: 5 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 3 Cost: 1 Kudos Token -------------- Volkswagen R32 -------------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 4 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 2 Cost: 2 Kudos Tokens -------------------------- Lancia Delta Integrale Evo -------------------------- Top Speed: 2 Acceleration: 3 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 5 Cost: 3 Kudos Tokens ************************************** 3.2 - Sports Convertible Class ************************************** ---------------- Audi TT Roadster ---------------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 2 Power Sliding: 2 Handling: 5 Cost: 2 Kudos Tokens ---------------- Mazda Miata MX-5 ---------------- Top Speed: 1 Acceleration: 1 Power Sliding: 1 Handling: 2 Cost: N/A ----------------- Toyota MR2 Spyder ----------------- Top Speed: 2 Acceleration: 1 Power Sliding: 1 Handling: 4 Cost: N/A ----------------- Porsche Boxster S ----------------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 2 Handling: 6 Cost: 4 Kudos Tokens ----------- Honda S2000 ----------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 6 Cost: 3 Kudos Tokens ----------- BMW Z4 3.0i ----------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 4 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 5 Cost: 4 Kudos Tokens ************************************** 3.3 - Coupe Class ************************************** ------------- Audi TT Coupe ------------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 2 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 5 Cost: 3 Kudos Tokens ---------- Mazda RX-8 ---------- Top Speed: 3 Acceleration: 5 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 4 Cost: N/A ------------------------ Honda Integra Type-R (J) ------------------------ Top Speed: 3 Acceleration: 4 Power Sliding: 1 Handling: 4 Cost: N/A ----------- Nissan 350Z ----------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 6 Cost: 4 Kudos Tokens ------- Audi S4 ------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 4 Cost: 5 Kudos Tokens ------ BMW M3 ------ Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 1 Handling: 6 Cost: 5 Kudos Tokens --------------- Audi TT Quattro --------------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 5 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 5 Cost: 3 Kudos Tokens ************************************** 3.4 - Sport Utility Class ************************************** ---------- Volvo XC90 ---------- Top Speed: 2 Acceleration: 1 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 1 Cost: N/A ------------- Chevrolet SSR ------------- Top Speed: 2 Acceleration: 3 Power Sliding: 2 Handling: 1 Cost: N/A ----------------- Mercedes ML55 AMG ----------------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 5 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 4 Cost: 5 Kudos Tokens --------------------- Porsche Cayenne Turbo --------------------- Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 4 Handling: 4 Cost: 6 Kudos Tokens ------------ BMW X5 4.6is ------------ Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 5 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 3 Cost: 6 Kudos Tokens ------------------ Ford SVT Lightning ------------------ Top Speed: 3 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 4 Handling: 2 Cost: 4 Kudos Tokens ************************************** 3.5 - Pacific Muscle Class ************************************** ---------------------- Mitsubishi 3000 GT VR4 ---------------------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 3 Cost: N/A ------------------------------- Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII ------------------------------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 9 Handling: 5 Cost: 6 Kudos Tokens ---------- Mazda RX-7 ---------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 4 Handling: 6 Cost: 5 Kudos Tokens ----------------------- Toyota Supra Twin-Turbo ----------------------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 4 Handling: 3 Cost: N/A ---------------------- Subaru Impreza WRX STi ---------------------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 8 Handling: 5 Cost: 6 Kudos Tokens ----------------------------- Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) Nür ----------------------------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 10 Handling: 6 Cost: 7 Kudos Tokens ************************************** 3.6 - Roadster Class ************************************** ------------- Vauxhal VX220 ------------- Top Speed: 1 Acceleration: 3 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 5 Cost: N/A ----------- Lotus Elise ----------- Top Speed: 1 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 6 Cost: 6 Kudos Tokens ---------- Lotus 340R ---------- Top Speed: 3 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 2 Handling: 5 Cost: 7 Kudos Tokens ------------------ Caterham 7 Classic ------------------ Top Speed: 1 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 2 Handling: 10 Cost: 8 Kudos Tokens -------------- Renault Spider -------------- Top Speed: 2 Acceleration: 3 Power Sliding: 1 Handling: 7 Cost: N/A ------------ AC 427 MKIII ------------ Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 9 Power Sliding: 9 Handling: 4 Cost: 8 Kudos Tokens ************************************** 3.7 - Classics Class ************************************** ------------- Toyota 2000GT ------------- Top Speed: 2 Acceleration: 1 Power Sliding: 2 Handling: 3 Cost: N/A ----------- Nissan 240Z ----------- Top Speed: 2 Acceleration: 2 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 4 Cost: 7 Kudos Tokens ------------------ Porsche 550 Spyder ------------------ Top Speed: 2 Acceleration: 3 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 3 Cost: N/A ------------- Jaguar E-Type ------------- Top Speed: 3 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 7 Handling: 3 Cost: 8 Kudos Tokens ----------------------- Mercedes 300SL Gullwing ----------------------- Top Speed: 3 Acceleration: 5 Power Sliding: 6 Handling: 3 Cost: 7 Kudos Tokens ------------------ Porsche 911 RS 2.7 ------------------ Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 7 Cost: 8 Kudos Tokens --------------- Ferrari 275 GTB --------------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 6 Handling: 4 Cost: 9 Kudos Tokens ------------------- Ferrari Dino 245 GT ------------------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 4 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 6 Cost: 8 Kudos Tokens -------------- Lancia Stratos -------------- Top Speed: 3 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 6 Handling: 5 Cost: 9 Kudos Tokens -------------- Ferrari 250 GT -------------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 4 Cost: N/A - Unlocked by beating Kudos World Series with all bronze medals or above ************************************** 3.8 - Sports Couple Class ************************************** ------------ Lexus SC 430 ------------ Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 5 Power Sliding: 2 Handling: 4 Cost: N/A ---------- Jaguar XKR ---------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 5 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 4 Cost: 8 Kudos Tokens -------- Audi RS6 -------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 2 Handling: 4 Cost: 8 Kudos Tokens ---------- TVR Tamora ---------- Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 7 Cost: 10 Kudos Tokens ------------ Cadillac XLR ------------ Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 5 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 4 Cost: N/A ------------- Morgan Aero 8 ------------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 9 Handling: 7 Cost: 10 Kudos Tokens ------------------------------- Porsche 911 Carrera Coupe (996) ------------------------------- Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 6 Cost: 9 Kudos Tokens ----- Iceni ----- Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 6 Handling: 6 Cost: 9 Kudos Tokens ************************************** 3.9 - American Muscle Class ************************************** ----------- Pontiac GTO ----------- Top Speed: 2 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 1 Cost: N/A ------------------ Corvette Sting Ray ------------------ Top Speed: 4 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 10 Handling: 3 Cost: 11 Kudos Tokens ------------------- Chevrolet Camaro SS ------------------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 8 Handling: 4 Cost: 10 Kudos Tokens ------------------------- Ford Mustang Fastback 2+2 ------------------------- Top Speed: 2 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 7 Handling: 2 Cost: 9 Kudos Tokens ---------------------- Ford SVT Mustang Cobra ---------------------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 4 Cost: 11 Kudos Tokens -------------------- Chevrolet Camaro Z28 -------------------- Top Speed: 2 Acceleration: 5 Power Sliding: 7 Handling: 2 Cost: N/A ---------------- Pontiac Trans Am ---------------- Top Speed: 2 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 8 Handling: 3 Cost: 9 Kudos Tokens ************************************** 3.10 - Super Car Class ************************************** -------------- Ferrari 355 F1 -------------- Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 7 Cost: N/A ----------------------- Porsche 911 Turbo (996) ----------------------- Top Speed: 7 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 6 Handling: 7 Cost: 12 Kudos Tokens ---------------------- Chevrolet Corvette Z06 ---------------------- Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 6 Handling: 7 Cost: 12 Kudos Tokens --------------- Dodge Viper GTS --------------- Top Speed: 7 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 6 Cost: 12 Kudos Tokens ------------------ Ferrari 360 Modena ------------------ Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 8 Handling: 8 Cost: 12 Kudos Tokens ------------------ Ferrari 360 Spider ------------------ Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 7 Handling: 7 Cost: N/A ------------------ TVR Tuscan Speed 6 ------------------ Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 6 Handling: 8 Cost: 12 Kudos Tokens -------------- Delfino Feroce -------------- Top Speed: 5 Acceleration: 9 Power Sliding: 4 Handling: 7 Cost: N/A - Unlocked by beating Kudos World Series ************************************** 3.11 - Grand Touring Class ************************************** ---------------------- Bentley Continental GT ---------------------- Top Speed: 8 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 10 Handling: 4 Cost: 14 Kudos Tokens ------------------ Ferrari Testarossa ------------------ Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 8 Handling: 5 Cost: 12 Kudos Tokens --------------------- Ferrari 550 Barchetta --------------------- Top Speed: 7 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 4 Handling: 7 Cost: 13 Kudos Tokens ----------------- Mercedes SL55 AMG ----------------- Top Speed: 7 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 4 Handling: 8 Cost: 13 Kudos Tokens ---------------------- Ferrari 575M Maranello ---------------------- Top Speed: 8 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 7 Handling: 8 Cost: 14 Kudos Tokens --------------------- Aston Martin Vanquish --------------------- Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 1 Handling: 7 Cost: N/A --------------- Lotus Esprit V8 --------------- Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 4 Handling: 6 Cost: N/A ************************************** 3.12 - Track Specials Class ************************************** ----------- Lotus Exige ----------- Top Speed: 2 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 1 Handling: 9 Cost: N/A -------------------- Vauxhall VX220 Turbo -------------------- Top Speed: 3 Acceleration: 6 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 7 Cost: N/A ------------------ Dodge Viper SRT-10 ------------------ Top Speed: 7 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 7 Handling: 7 Cost: 14 Kudos Tokens -------------------- Honda NSX Type-R (J) -------------------- Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 7 Power Sliding: 1 Handling: 8 Cost: 13 Kudos Tokens -------------- Noble M12 GTO3 -------------- Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 9 Power Sliding: 6 Handling: 9 Cost: 15 Kudos Tokens --------------------- Porsche 911 GT3 (996) --------------------- Top Speed: 7 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 6 Handling: 9 Cost: 15 Kudos Tokens -------------------------- Ferrari Challenge Stradale -------------------------- Top Speed: 6 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 6 Handling: 9 Cost: 14 Kudos Tokens ************************************** 3.13 - Extreme Class ************************************** --------- Ford GT40 --------- Top Speed: 9 Acceleration: 8 Power Sliding: 8 Handling: 7 Cost: N/A ----------- Porsche 959 ----------- Top Speed: 7 Acceleration: 9 Power Sliding: 4 Handling: 8 Cost: 17 Kudos Tokens ----------- Ferrari F40 ----------- Top Speed: 8 Acceleration: 9 Power Sliding: 6 Handling: 9 Cost: 17 Kudos Tokens ----------- Ferrari F50 ----------- Top Speed: 8 Acceleration: 9 Power Sliding: 4 Handling: 9 Cost: 19 Kudos Tokens --------------------- Porsche 911 GT2 (993) --------------------- Top Speed: 7 Acceleration: 9 Power Sliding: 7 Handling: 9 Cost: N/A ------------ Jaguar XJ220 ------------ Top Speed: 9 Acceleration: 9 Power Sliding: 2 Handling: 7 Cost: 19 Kudos Tokens ---------- Ascari KZ1 ---------- Top Speed: 8 Acceleration: 9 Power Sliding: 8 Handling: 8 Cost: 17 Kudos Tokens ************************************** 3.14 - Ultimate Class ************************************** --------- Saleen S7 --------- Top Speed: 9 Acceleration: 9 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 8 Cost: N/A ------- Ford GT ------- Top Speed: 8 Acceleration: 9 Power Sliding: 4 Handling: 9 Cost: N/A ------------------ Porsche Carrera GT ------------------ Top Speed: 9 Acceleration: 9 Power Sliding: 6 Handling: 10 Cost: 22 Kudos Tokens ----------------- Koenigsegg CC V8S ----------------- Top Speed: 9 Acceleration: 10 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 8 Cost: 22 Kudos Tokens ------------ Enzo Ferrari ------------ Top Speed: 10 Acceleration: 10 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 10 Cost: 22 Kudos Tokens -------------- Pagani Zonda S -------------- Top Speed: 9 Acceleration: 9 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 8 Cost: 22 Kudos Tokens ---------------- Mercedes CLK-GTR ---------------- Top Speed: 7 Acceleration: 10 Power Sliding: 3 Handling: 9 Cost: N/A - Unlocked by beating Kudos World Series with all gold medals or above --------------- Porsche 911 GT1 --------------- Top Speed: 9 Acceleration: 10 Power Sliding: 5 Handling: 10 Cost: N/A - Unlocked by beating Kudos World Series with all silver medals or above -------------------- TVR Cerbera Speed 12 -------------------- Top Speed: 10 Acceleration: 10 Power Sliding: 6 Handling: 10 Cost: N/A - Unlocked by beating Kudos World Series with all platinum medals or above =============================================================================== 4. Contact Information =============================================================================== If you have any questions, comments, have a correction or an addition for me to add (You will get credit for it, of course) e-mail me at: [email protected] Note, before you e-mail me a question, be 100% sure that the question isn't answered in the FAQ. =============================================================================== 5. Legal Stuff =============================================================================== This FAQ is copyright 2003 Pierre "Masamune2" Maris. This FAQ was created by me ONLY for use on the following sites: www.cheatcc.com www.gamefaqs.com www.ign.com www.neoseeker.com Don't bother to ask to put this FAQ on your site, I will only allow the above three sites to host it. Using this FAQ on a site without my permission violates international copyright laws and if you do use it on your site without my permission, I WILL make sure that it is removed.