After spending the gold to just skip the final race in the event and spending some time digging through the NFSNL subreddit, it became very clear that this was not just myself that experienced this issue. I am far from the best player of this game in the world, but far from the worst as well. I have been able to complete most events without feeling the need to spend gold on them unless I wanted to accelerate moving the car to a higher stage over the course of the event, rather than waiting for blueprints to come available in replayable races later. This event has been a massive exception, and primarily focused around one area: the final race.
If you get the exact right combination of layouts for nitro zones in conjunction with the static ramps, it is theoretically possible to win this event, as can be seen in the linked YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tSbDXjpZBE), however the nitro zones are completely randomly generated on the track, and it is more likely than not that you will not have the right combination of zones near the beginning of the course to allow you to overtake the AI vehicles.
The real problem here is that the AI vehicles' behavior does not line up with their listed car PR values. You can see that they accelerate away from the player at the beginning of the race at a rate that far exceeds what they should be capable of doing, even with a perfect launch and immediately activating a nitro boost. Granted you are dealing with acceleration heavy cars like the Ferrari 458 and Lamborghini Murcielago, but even taking that into account, they are clearly operating at an abnormally boosted rate, even worse than the 458 boss race which is also a notably difficult acceleration race.
This event was not tuned well, and the final race behavior is exceptionally out of line with where it should have been. Hopefully this is not a sign of things to come for the future of this game, because I greatly enjoy this game overall, but this event made me want to throw my phone out the window in frustration, and that is not a thing that tends to happen for me. I would suggest taking a look at the NFSNL subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/nfsnolimits/) to get input from the rest of the player community as well, because I am clearly just one voice here, but this event was poorly executed, and insulting to your player base.
Among the Russians, too, many are dissatisfied with this event, and this season.
But especially for the Jaguar XE.
Perhaps no one will pay attention to the claim from Russia, but many are dissatisfied.
