DLC #125 - Grid Autosport - Drag Pack

This package introduces Drag racing to the Grid Autosport experience, adding 3 new drag cars, 3 new drag strips and a series of 9 new drag events to complete, along with 3 additional trophies to unlock.

Out of the 9 new drag events included as part of this DLC, 7 of them are individual events, and 2 of them are new Championships, including the Hotrod World Championship and the Funny Car World Championship, both of which will award 2 of the 3 trophies upon completion.

Unlike within the main game, where you had to progress towards the upper tier Championships, all 9 of these new events are instantly available from the off, and the 7 individual events do not act as prerequisites to the 2 Championships, so you can completely bypass these preliminaries and jump straight into the main event.

Each of the 2 Championships consist of 3 events, composed of 4 rounds each, following the exact same format of drift events. There is a qualifying round, in order to narrow down the field from 16 to 8, followed by 3 subsequent knockout rounds, where you compete on a head to head basis against another driver through a Quarter, Semi and Final. Points are awarded for higher placement, and you'll win the Championship, unlocking the relevant trophy in the process, for earning the most amount of points across the 3 events.

Even if you're not familiar with the concept of Drag racing, it doesn't take too long to understand how it works, and more importantly, how to get the hang of it and start posting some good finishing times. You literally just have to drive in a straight line from point to point as fast as possible, and whilst there are more dynamic game mechanics to it than that, such as gear shifting and timing the jump start, it is really as simple of a principle as it sounds.

The Funny Car Championship is slightly more challenging than that Hotrod Championship, which is noted by the fact the former will award a Gold trophy compared to the latter's Silver, but I still managed to obtain full completion of this package within the space of 2 hours. I even left the difficulty setting as Hard, carrying on from where I left off from with the main game. The final trophy just merely requires you to beat an opponent who had a better "pass" time, with a better "reaction" time, which you'll get along the way towards winning both of the new Championships.