I have been playing this awesome racer for a while now and it gets more addictive everyday. All this gameplay experience means I naturally have lots of tips and tricks for those who wants to master the game double quick. 1) Save your Gold. Do not use it on speeding up the servicing or updating of your cars. Be patient and let time do that and NOT your gold. Use your gold only for gold-only upgrades for your cars or gold-only car purchases. 2) Do not go off-road to cut corners, and avoid getting thrown outside the track as much as possible. This will cause considerable damage to your vehicle and require more frequent servicing. Which means more waiting and less racing for you. So always use the breaks on those corners- more on this later. 3) Set as much driving assists as possible to OFF (steering, traction, brakes etc). AT the beginning turning Brake assists completely off will seems daunting and arduous. So do it gradually. Setting high brake assist will mean you will almost never go off-track by accident. But this also causes the game to brake at the slightest turn and obstacle, which means winning in the later racers will become impossible however high your cars’ PR (performance rating) is. So set it one notch lower to Low setting. This is the best combination of assisted braking and player control there is. Low setting will make the game brake only for the tightest corners while letting you brake for light turns and letting you enjoy the game. For some races though you will need to turn brake assists off completely to win, such as for Speed Snap races using a under-performing vehicle. 4) Learn the tracks. You will need to run through each track multiple times before you get used to the corners and route before you can completely master it and win. Remember practice makes perfect. 5) Brake before you come to the corner and then let off the brake as you turn and then hit the gas at the end of the turn for best results. Always try and keep as close to the corner as possible while turning for best results. This will also vary vastly depending on the PR rating of each vehicle. 6) Within a Series try and do the easy races first (such as Autocross, Drag Race, Elimination, head to head, time-trial etc) as they usually are pretty short and damage the car less and thus you can do a lot of them before you need a another service break. This’ll mean you can hit the percentage bonuses (25%, 50% 75% etc) for each Series faster when you do these quick races. Keep the big Cup Races to the last if possible. 7) When overtaking opponents, beware, some cars will block you or try and smash you off the track. This is especially true for the Indianapolis Speedway track. Some opponents will try to put you into the outer railing, which will cause massive damage and slow you down considerably. Also when someone tries to overtake make sure to return the favor and smash em to the ground. 8) If you need more money to upgrade or buy new cars, try replaying past races. This a quick and easy method to pile up the Racing Dollars. 9) Upgrading cars costs lots of money and gold that can put towards buying newer cars and unlocking new Series’. So only upgrade just enough to win the next race or hit the minimum PR rating, and not just for the sake of upgrading and spending your hard earned cash. http://unhappysoul.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/real-racing-3-top-tips-and-tricks/