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Los Santos Stadium Missions  |
| 8-Track |
The 8-Track can be found at the stadium in East Beach, Los Santos. It's directly East of Grove Street.
The
8-Track is a relatively difficult race inside the stadium. Similar to the Hotring on Vice City you are battling it out with
12 other vehicles over a 12 lap race in a Hotring Racer. You need to come in first place to be rewarded, however the Hotring
Racer doesn't have very good handling. It will spin out of control with almost the slightest impact with another car.
The
most important thing is to get a good start. Immediately from the green light, or rather 'Go' message, speed forward, and
keep to the dirt to the left. Go around this corner, then if you have a chance, cross the road to the right and keep on the
outside of the track. You should be up into about 5th or 6th at this point already. Make your way through the first main left,
across the bridge type thing and then keep to the right and stay on the dirt. From here it's simple, just follow the road
around carefully and slowly, braking any time you feel you need to turn. If you see a car coming up behind you, or next to
you LET THEM PASS. You can easily over take them again, but if they touch you, and most likely spin you out, you could drop
to 30 seconds behind the leader. If at any time on the first few laps you crash out, I'd suggest getting out of your car and
blowing it up if you have any weapons. You might as well just start again rather than having to try and gain positions from
half way through the race.
The cars in front aren't stupid drivers, and they'll drive pretty slowly too, so just follow
them and keep up with them. As you approach the start/finish line, prepare to over take, as this is certainly the easiest
part on the track to gain positions. Once you're up to the relatively tight left turn again slow down and tail anyone still
in front of you. Follow them around the track until you reach the start finish line, then use the straight and relatively
easy corner to gain more positions. Try to keep this up for two or three laps, and you should then be in first place.
Once
you're in first place you can take it easy. You'll need to maintain your speed in order to stay ahead of the pack, but you
should be more careful braking for corners, and of course you won't have to worry about anyone in front of you. You may wish
to go a bit faster on the easier corners, but always remember to brake. I'd also advise only using Square to brake, not R1
to handbrake, otherwise you'll most likely spin out. Also let go of X and glide around the track when going around corners,
rather than speeding and then having to stop before you can go again in another direction. Staying in the lead for about 3
laps will usually result in any cars directly behind you disappearing, so you can be a lot more careful in order to not crash.
Stay
in first place and try not to crash, then just navigate your way around the track carefully. Unless you're on the last lap,
let anyone go past you who could be a danger. Always remember the area just before and just after the start/finish line is
the best place for over taking on the whole track.
Upon completion of the race in first place you will be awarded $10,000
and when placed outside you will see an American Flag Monster Truck and a Hotring Racer have been spawned in the stadium's
car park.
Reward: $10,000
The Monster Truck And Hotring Racer Have Been Unlocked Outside The Stadium. |
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| San Fierro Stadium Missions |
| Blood Ring |
The Blood Ring can be found at the stadium in Foster Valley, San Fierro. It's the most Southern
area in San Fierro with an icon on the radar.
The Blood Ring is a ridiculously hard checkpoint grabbing destruction
derby. This was in Vice City, and while frustrating, it was still possible. This time it literally requires luck in order
to pass the mission. You, and about 20 other vehicles with sub machine gun weilding idiots hanging out of the windows need
to battle around a bowl and collect large red checkpoints. Your time will count down, and every checkpoint you get will increase
your time by 15 seconds. You'll start on 30 seconds, and you need to beat a score of 60 on your first run. In theory, this
means you need to grab about three or four checkpoints in quick succession in order to raise your time above a minute. In
Vice City this wasn't a problem, although you needed to weave in and out of the vehicles in order to get to the checkpoints
as quickly as possible. In San Andreas the mission is completely unfair. You're in a crappy Bloodring Banger with probably
the worst handling and speed in the game, while racing about 20 other vehicles ranging from street racers to off road vehicles.
To make things worse, other vehicles can grab the checkpoints. So not only do you need to grab as many checkpoints as possible,
but you need to pray that none of the other cars get the one you're heading for. Of course when the odds are about 19 to 1
you don't really have much chance at all of getting the checkpoints first.
The main advice for this mission is to keep
playing it over and over until you are lucky enough to be able to actually get three or four checkpoints without some other
stupid vehicles getting there before you. Use handbrake turns to turn around quickly, and always go for the little tool icon
if you can see someone else is going to get a checkpoint before you as the little bastards can do a lot of damage to your
car with their drive-by's. Of course another ingenious idea for this mission from Rockstar was to make blown up cars respawn!
So no matter how many you take out, there'll still be about 20 others stealing your checkpoints. There's literally no proper
advice you can give for this, apart from telling you your objective. Drive through the cars and grab the checkpoints before
they do. Everything else is up to the game making the other cars way better drivers than you.
Luckily the mission is
only required once, and after that I wouldn't waste the time doing it again.
Upon completion of the battle with a total
time of over 60 seconds you will be awarded $10,000 and when placed outside you will see that an amazing Bloodring Banger
has been spawned in the stadium's car park.
Reward: $10,000
The Bloodring Banger Has Been Unlocked Outside The Stadium. |
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| Las Venturas Stadium Missions |
| Dirt Track |
The Dirt Track can be found at the stadium in Blackfield, Las Venturas on Mondays and Wednesdays.
It can be found to the West of the ring road around Las Venturas.
The Dirt Track is probably one of the easiest stadium
missions there is. You're on a Sanchez dirt bike and are racing it out with 12 other bikers. The good thing is that while
they are relatively well skilled at driving, they don't balance themselves out after going over a jump, and as a result, you
can almost always count on most of, if not all of them bailing after going over a hill a few corners from the start. This
gives you a great opportunity to catch up, or get even further in the lead.
From the start follow the dirt track in
the middle of the road perfectly. Just stay in the middle of the other vehicles and head over the small jump. Try to land
cleanly and go over the next jump where you should be able to gain about four or five places. Land that well then head around
the corner to the left. Follow that along and handbrake turn just after going over the top of the hill. Follow this path down
and over the small jump, then hit the big jump. This is where you win and lose the race. You'll most likely see that a lot
of the riders have fallen from their bikes here, and those who haven't will soon, don't worry. Balance out the bike in mid
air and land smoothly, while avoiding the other bikes. Head to the left and go onto the ramp. As you hit the end, turn slightly
to the right in mid air so that you land at an angle pointing the right way. Keep to the inside of the track, probably on
the yellow bit in the middle, and follow this tight circle all of the way around. After three quarters of a full circle you'll
see the track continues to the left, so make sure you don't miss the turn. Head along here and hand brake turn in order to
stay away from the barriers. Go to the end of this section then hand brake turn again. Follow the road a bit further, then
handbrake turn around the hairpin. Drive to the end of the next road and handbrake turn around this hairpin, then follow the
track back to the start finish line.
Every single rider WILL crash out on the hill, sooner or later, so just make sure
you put in good lap times, roughly around 55 to 57 seconds and try not to spin out or bail from the bike. If you land the
jump you're guaranteed to gain positions. Once you get in the lead it's not as easy as the 8-Track, however handbrake turning
makes corners much easier. Always be sure to keep off the barriers. They'll pretty much stop you dead and it would be quicker
to physically brake to a stop. Instead, release X and just let the bike glide along. Performing handbrake turns without holding
X will improve the turning time and make it a lot easier to get around corners at higher speeds. Just remember to keep driving
relatively fast and don't crash, then wait for the other racers to make mistakes and you should be able to get this in your
first few tries. The better Bike Skill you have the easier it will be though, as you'll have less chance of falling from your
bike, even with hard collisions.
Upon completion of the race in first place you will be awarded $25,000 and when placed
outside you will see that a BF Injection has been spawned in front of the stadium doors.
Reward: $25,000
A BF Injection
Has Been Unlocked Outside The Stadium On Monday And Wednesday. |
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| Kickstart |
Kickstart can be found at the stadium in Blackfield, Las Venturas on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
and Sunday. It can be found to the West of the ring road around Las Venturas.
Kickstart is exactly like the Dirt Ring
in Vice City. You're on a dirt bike, and you need to make your way up and over obstacles in order to increase your score while
your time counts down. You need to score more than 25 points to beat the challenge, however 45 or more is easily possible.
Grabbing a green corona will earn you 1 point, an amber one will get you 2 and a red one will add 3 to your total. Needless
to say the green ones are easy to get, the amber ones are medium difficulty, and the red ones are the hardest.
From
the start head immediately left and drive up the easy-ish wooden ramp thing to the top and grab the red corona. Drop down
from there and go straight ahead and over the two strange obstacles to pick up two orange coronas. Before dropping down at
the end of the second one, make a right and go up the next obstacle. Grab the amber one up here, then go down and grab a red
corona. Head up the ramp at the other side and drop the front wheel off the edge to grab the next red corona, then reverse
back on and turn around, dropping down the last ramp to pick up yet another red corona. Make your way to the top left corner
of the room where you'll find an easy few ramps leading through a green corona into a red one. You should now have 22 points
with only about a minute or so gone, and you can just pick a few easy green corona's to push it past 25 and you'll win the
mission when the time runs out. If you want to get as good a score as possible head over to the other side of the arena and
ramp onto the bus. Grab the amber corona and head carefully along the wood to the other bus and grab a red corona. Drop down
and drive into the single car aiming to bounce off it and grab the red corona at the top of the stacked cars. You can then
drive up the wooden ramp next to the cars and grab the amber corona. By now you will easily have the required 25 points, and
if not there's at least 5 more easy green ones to pick up, so I'll leave that to you.
Upon completion of the mission
with over 25 points, when outside you will see that a Dune has been spawned in front of the stadium doors.
Reward:
A
Dune Has Been Unlocked Outside The Stadium On Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday And Sunday. |
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