In higher level runs, you'll see the usage of the "eraser", and the "TST" (double eraser). In this guide, you'll learn how to do the techniques I just mentioned. But first, you need to know a few things about the game.

1. The game has a wall penalty system. When colliding with a wall (even a light tap), your acceleration is compromised, but it will return to normal after some time (depending on how hard you hit the wall).

2. Follow the racing line. The racing line consists of entering the corner from the outside (entry), turning in, getting as close as you can to the inside (commonly referred to as the apex) in the middle of the corner (mid-corner), and exiting while trying to get as close as you can to the wall on the outside (exit), again.

3. Each car has different gear shift points, for example, the AE86 Trueno has different shift points from the Levin. The link below has the shift points for all cars in-game. (https://www.speedrun.com/initial_d_street_stage/thread/weibf)

With this information, you are good to go, but if you want to go even faster, you will need to make use of the techniques that were previously mentioned.

Eraser:

Eraser is a pretty simple technique and you can do it amost everywere. To do it, you have to downshift, and upshift quickly, trying to lose as little speed as possible, while turning into the corner. It works by making your car be capable of turning even more in the direction you are doing the eraser to, but you will sacrifice the ability to turn to the other side, for as long as the eraser's effect lasts

TST (Double Eraser):

After learning eraser, you can learn "TST". To do it, you do an eraser a little bit before, and toward the corner, then counter-steer while maintaining the first eraser's effect, then do another eraser toward the corner again, then turn-in. This technique can be pretty tricky to pull of, I recommend training TST on usui (because it is easiest that that uses TST and has a large road) to get the idea of how it works and master it.

Now you know how the game works and you can now play Time Attack (and by extension, you'll be better at Legend of The Streets and Bunta Challenge too!) And my last tip is: Play this game, a lot, you will get progressively better at this game, the more you play it That's it, good luck for you in your Street stage journey.

Extra: You can check all cars performace in IDRankings (it's for D3, but the car balance is the same) https://idrankings.com/initiald/v3/rankings#V-----

For any questions, just ask on SpeedStars Discord Server, we are pretty friendily with new players.

(thx Hiihro for the help in making this guide, my english isn't the best and you helped me on making this guide more friendly.) Long Ver. https://pastebin.com/evKVW6LT