Theory: Drifting before entering a new stage
6 years ago
Skåne, Sweden

Hello fellow OutRunners!

After playing around for some time today I think I have come up with a potential time save. It's a small one, but I think it could result in breaking the 52 second barrier anytime soon on Palm Beach given you run the stage perfectly and cutting a few tenths of a second off each other stage.

This involves a bit of luck getting the right slipstream pattern on the escape of the stage but if you can somehow manage to get a slipstream up to ~325 km/h JUST BEFORE you enter the final corner before the checkpoint, doing a drift will conserve more speed (and for some reason, gain speed) than if you were to take the corner normally.

I did it today by accident and actually managed to get past the normal 330 km/h cap.

As I said, it's mostly a theory in the testing stage right now as I haven't had enough time to play around with it, but if it works (given we have perfect patterns), we can and WILL go faster.

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