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How to go fast in quick race mode

By June Flower

A bunch of tips and tricks to go fast and get some good times on the leaderboards!

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Category: Gameplay Basics, Secrets, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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24 May, 2018 @ 12:58pm

10 Aug, 2018 @ 4:15am

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Guide Index

Overview

The start

Do the race thing idk

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The start

Before starting

-Play on hard! AI cars being faster means that it will be easier to Slipstream off them.
-Play with the Lynx. It might start slow, but all of the highest times are made with the Lynx, as it can peak to very high speeds if uninterupted.

The start of the race

-Accelerate during the countdown. It will make you accelerate slightly faster. I don't think there's any drawbacks for overdoing it. I'm also pretty sure it's capped, so no need to press on the first frame or anything.
-Get other cars to bump into your back, as it will give you a significant boost. They try to avoid you, so it's kinda hard sometimes though. It also means that if you are if the back of the starting grid, you're kinda screwed. If you're going for a top of leaderboard kind of time, being too far back means you'll have to reset... (doesn't work anymore since last update.)
-Slipstream off anyone in front of you, as much as possible.

Do the race thing idk

Driftin'

-As the tutorial says, it's best to press brake for as little time as possible. do a quick tap. And start accelerating again immediatly, obviously.
-Drift in every corners, Even if you are going very slow: if you steer for too long in the same direction without drifting you start to lose speed.
-You don't lose speed when drifting. Don't be afraid to drift through the whole corner.

Slipstreamin'

-Slipstream as much as possible, and try to chain them whenever you can. Yeah, I know, thanks Captain Obvious.
-Try to Slipstream in corners by going on the same lane as the car in front of you. Think of it as if the game considered the road to always be straight, even when it isn't.

Other stuff

-You don't have to position yourself in any kind of way before corners. As long as you don't touch the grass or scenery it will not matter where you are on the road.
-Kinda useless, but it might be good to know: the edges of the road slightly push you towards the center. It makes some corners more forgiving, but you might want to take that into account when trying to go past another car from the side.
-AIs can't Slipstream.
-Listen to eurobeat, it gives your car at least 40 extra horsepower.

Hope it was helpful for anyone out here! If you have any other tip or wanna point out a mistake, feel free to comment. Have fun!

9 Comments

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SOM_TINKS_WONG 30 Dec, 2021 @ 7:43pm

tuxdelux jupp, you never will make it, no matter how hard you break, you have to crash because the DEV never tested the 1.2 patch and threw shit at its customers to deal with it. its a broken ass game with a giant patch telling you lies ;) deal with it, its to late to refund

tuxdelux 13 Feb, 2021 @ 12:21pm

Learning this drifting mechanic, and I have trouble around S-Turns.
While I can drift around the first turn, I cannot get the second drift to start before I crash into the wall. What am I doing wrong?

Dummy-Thick-Rodriguez 30 Oct, 2020 @ 11:32pm

Juggle one racer infront of your car for the whole race for a permanent slipstream.

Vjus 6 Jul, 2020 @ 7:28am

Although eurobeat may not give more horsepower, in my experience I have noticed that I corner at a higher velocity.

Real 12 Oct, 2018 @ 8:50am

Thanks for this guide.

"-Get other cars to bump into your back"
> It seems that the devs made a rollback on this (I read that in one thread). I use this when starting championship races, and it helps to reach high speed directly - But if you get a bump during the race it generally slows you down, it seems to be correlated to your car speed.

"Driftin'"
> I would add a point that explains that it's important to learn when to release the acceleration trigger at some times when drifting in corners to change the drift angle to avoid incoming cars. (Not sure if this belongs to this guide "how to go fast", but it helps to avoid bumps and thus to make better times).

June Flower [author] 18 Jun, 2018 @ 2:01am

Hell yeah!

Winner 17 Jun, 2018 @ 11:51pm

Thanks lain.
time to go fast get rich

June Flower [author] 6 Jun, 2018 @ 4:16am

Maybe it changed since last time, I'll update it.

Seiko Hirai 5 Jun, 2018 @ 12:32pm

"-Get other cars to bump into your back"

From my experience, all this does is spin my car out and cut my speed in half.
Might need to update your guide for the last update.

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