Blackridge Spirit event

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See updates for ongoing event:
Blackridge Spirit starting
Blackridge spirit week 1 review and analysis
Blackridge Spirit week 2
Blackridge Spirit week 2 review and analysis
Blackridge Spirit week 3
Blackridge Spirit week 3 review and analysis
Blackridge Spirit final week
Blackridge Spirit end result

I've actually skipped the Christmas event, since I was quite busy, and the gold impact would have been severe. The prize was a Lamborghini Huracan, which is a seven-star super car. The event would only have given blueprints up to level 5, I think, leaving two levels to be maxed out. At a price of 400 gold for 5 blueprints, and a suspected need for 40+ blueprints for the last two levels, I'd have looked at paying 3000 plus gold to max that one out. Blueprints for event cars are usually only available in the  event market (during the event), or in "limited time" crates at some future point, at a huge cost and gamble. So if you really care for that car, you probably want to try and max it.

My top car currently is still the M4 F82 Razor, from the "Return of Razor" event. I didn't know about the blueprint rule then, so it's at six stars and stuck at a 768 PR, which has pissed me off somewhat. I'm building the Mercedes AMG to supersede the BMW, but that's still at the early 700s.

But I digress. So there's a new event coming up, apparently a "4 week run", which would be way longer than previous events. You can be sure they'll be making it as hard as possible to get through that without spending gold, but the prize is a 4-star LaFerrari hypercar.

Again, the event rule applies, so I'm expecting that to be even more expensive than the Lambo last time. We'll see. But the requirements are interesting, seems like we'll be racing our own cars, not the event car (and then win it at the end). Not clear at this point if these are the four cars for the four weeks, or only the first week, but listed so far are:
 

• Toyota 86
• Mazda RX-7
• Ford Mustang
• BMW M4

I've been working on the Toyota the past days, and I'm sure as hell hoping that my M4 Razor can stand in, since the regular one is still at 500-something. Then again, that's a couple of weeks away, that's a lot of time. But looks like I've got my farming schedule cut out for me, and will have to put the AMG levelling on the backburner again.

Anyway, if I make it through this one, I'll probably end up with the four star version - no farming for event car blueprints, so I'll leave that as is, unless they have a very reasonable gold price in the event market (fat chance for that to happen).