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[episteme]

TomaTito said:

episteme said:

I was fascinated by my lead when the blue shell hit me in the second lap ;)

BTW it's usually better to do no trick on orange boost pads.

You pulled out far ahead of us. But the camera was somewhat fixated on me.

And you mean all boost pads? Why? There's no extra boost with tricks? Or do you loose impulse by jumping more?

Tricks override the boosts from pads and you land earlier when you do no trick. That sometimes means that you can do an orange drift boost in the next curve instead of a blue one.