to be honest it isn't about your rep level. its about not wasting any of your tickets. although Im currently at level 81, the events difficulty has nothing to do with your rep level. i could have been level 35 and still win the race. you can get the gold tier by spending less than 300 gold but it will be a bit intense because when the ticket refills to 5, from that minute onward you're wasting time and basically having less tickets in average to the time you have. you get one ticket per hour. once you have the max amount of tickets you stop getting any more until you spend at least one. five hours without new tickets means five tickets lost. Its simple. I admit the Spirit Festival event was hard but it is possible. To be honest i just barely made through the gold tier with one race skip on the last race of day 2, 2 refills, and some gold spent on insufficient credits.
Also although this is EA, I kinda get why this event is so hard. I mean this car is even faster than the Porsche 918, and the Devils run wasn't easy either. Aside from the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon which has OP acceleration, the difficult mostly matches up with the cars performance and i think while the obstacle races were nerve wrecking (not as much as all the cops in devil run though) the rest was fine, also except one or two of the mashups.
god, airtime, drifting and nitro strips aren't easy but its definitly doable in one try
