Since when run has to start at car selection screen and why? There's already runs done by me(all my runs) and larathen that doesn't start there.

I set race like this, I put 12 stages in custom and then start it and choose car setup and quit main menu. Then I resume it and car setup is on so I save time.

And exactly what is considered a car selection menu? Is it the menu with all the car classes or can I be inside specific car class and start timer right before I click on the car I'm about to drive?

Updated: This latest update will change run (Dec 5th 2017 update).

Not sure if there's enough time to do everything with Monday start unless u use save glitch which will prevent weekday to change, and that glitch might disappear in some future update too so then u can't even use it anymore (save game+weekday doesn't change-glitch explained: if u save before midnight the time will advance 2h in game to past 1am, but weekday doesn't change, not sure if it works everytime).

Current fastest route what I've been planning requires 3 junk cars and 4 sewages because now u have to spend more money to get the rims and tires.

Nov 19th: new pb 4h 15min 57s run with 3 junk cars +3 wells, can still get at least 3minutes or more off

These seem to vary alot.

Comparing Finland all stages RTA 2010s

karik134

• from Resume to Menu takes 15s
• then between 1st and 2nd stage 17s
• after 2nd stage to service menu 17s

(In Wales 1960s same loading times were for me 10s/11s/12s)

Larathen

• from Resume to Menu 35s
• then between 1st and 2nd stage 35s
• after 2nd stage to service menu 35s

It means that u Larathen lose 3min 38s (20s+11x18s=218s) on 12stage RTA in Finland compared to my loading times. And even I lose around 31s to Quirkitized's loading times in Finland (3s+6x3s+5x2s=31s).

(as a comparison other players in Finland) Quirkitized

• between two stages 14s (in Greece 10s between 1st and 2nd stage)
• after a stage to service menu 15s Idk if Quirk has game on a ssd or are loading times few seconds shorter because he's using separate streaming pc.

random player in twitch starting an event in Finland

• load to Menu 13s
• between 1st and 2nd stage 20s

PS4 Pro player in Wales: load to Menu 24s in Finland: load to Menu 28s

My PC specs: game is on a sata3 HDD (WD Caviar Black 1TB), 16gb ddr4 ram, cpu: i7 6700, gpu has 3gb of memory.

If I remember correctly in custom event you don't have yuor career engineers available, but in Career or Custom Championship you do and with them cars can be repaired more. Custom Championship is more practical playmode to do it because you can retire events without level drop which happens in Career when u place 14-16th in total points at the end of the season.

All though in those playmodes time of day and weather conditions can't be chosen(it's randomized) but the ability to fix the car more can result in quicker time (specially in Finland where cars tend to get more damage). Weather conditions doesn't affect times in Greece because there's no rain, in Finland it's like couple seconds on a long stage and Wales stages are always wet, not much difference if at all in cloudy/overcast or rain conditions. Night stages shouldn't affect times that much when u know stages.

So is it allowed to do 12 stage RTA through the Career or Custom Championship?

There's like 60 seconds (12 x 5s) to save just by taking jumpstarts instead of waiting countdown out. Is that allowed because isn't RTA just doing 12 stages in fastest way possible?