Driving Techniques/Impact Points

Alright kids, time for a basic physics lesson. I never took physics in school, because I didn't like the teacher, so I probably don't have all the angles of incidence=2 the angle of reflection, or something like that, but the ideas are the same. I couldn't find any other pages that explained some impact points, and stuff like that. Maybe it's because they are all so obvious, they don't need explaining, or maybe I just missed them. If I copied anyones page, I am sorry. I don't promote racing like this all the time, because you will hardly ever win, and you will get alot of people pissed off at you. It is pretty fun, though, and some of these hits come in handy at times. If anyone wants to share their hits, or techniques, email me explaining how to do it, and I'll post it. With the credit to you, of course. The last two tips on the list at the bottom are on Q-Balls too. I swear I was going to put them down earlier, but couldn't find the time. Guess this proves we are playing the same game :)

If you were to ram another car from the back, while both cars were going straight, all it does is give the car in the lead a boost. A crappy deal if you are the car behind. However, if you are leading, and can swerve in front of the other car, he'll give you a boost, while swearing at you. :)

If you hit a car on the back corner while he's turning, then he will spin out as shown by the blue arrow. Make sure you're on the inside of the corner when you hit him. The arrow coming off the target shows where you should go if you hit it right. If you hit him here while he's going straight, little will happen to him, and you will probably go spinning out of control. If anything, it will only give him a boost, thus defeating the purpose of the hit in the first place.

Other tips that I don't have graphics for (yet):

• If you are stopped, and someone flies into you from behind, you will pick up his speed, and he will stop.
• Its fairly easy to shave someone off on a wall- once they are beside you, and behind a bit, odds are that they will not slow down because they think that they have you, but in reality, you have them. All you need to do is slowly steer towards the wall that puts him between you and it...? that didn't really make a whole lot of sense, but you'll catch the drift, and he'll catch the wall.
• More speed = better hits, and better spinouts.
• When a car is going straight, there is little to do to spin him out without you doing the same.
• The best way to win is to just drive.
• To drive straight, focus on a point on the horizon, or far ahead of you . (this one works when you're really driving, too)
• This one has nothing to do with driving, but after you start the game, you can take the POD CD out, and slap in an audio disc, and it will play the music from that disc instead of that funky POD music.
• When taking corners, turn from the outside of the curve to the inside (this one may be at the IcePit, I wasn't sure. If it is, there's a diagram)
• You can turn a little when you are in the air, which isn't right.......
• To find the shortcuts on a new track, set the computers to hard, and watch where they go (or go to Q-Balls).

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