Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-19100401-20171007165047/@comment-26388545-20171007213348

Hey Jay the Canadian... or should I say eh?? Welcome to the forum.

There are some tricks when it comes to drag racing. These work almost all the time, I'll get you the exceptions later.

The lights go red, red, red, pause then green. They follow an exact timing sequence so you just have to start counting with the reds and keep your timing; NOTE: if you lose a race in this process it will stop working. You need to end the race, exit it and then go in and start over.
 * 1st race 1 (red), 2 (red), 3 (red), 4 (green, GO!).
 * 2nd race 1 (red), 2 (red), 3 (red), 4 (still red), 5 (green, GO!).
 * 3rd race race 1 (red), 2 (red), 3 (red), 4 (still red), 5 (still red), 6 (green, GO!).

Now add to this the "pause resume" trick. Let's take the first race for example. You count off 1, 2, 3, then at about 3½ press pause. Now get one finger where the pause button is and one finger where resume is. Press resume and then press pause immediately after. Keep doing this until you see a flash of green lights. Leave it paused and get one finger ready where the launch button is. Resume and hit launch immediately. Now you just need to shift.

You can use the pause resume method without doing the counting but you're going to sit there pressing the buttons are good 50 times before you see a flash of green. That's because you're moving ehead by just tenths or even hundredths of a second. You'll notice this will give you a big jump on the competition once you get it down.

EXCEPTIONS: There is the odd drag race that has no timing regularity at all. I don't know why but there's just some of them that work that way. You can try using the pause resume method if you're really stuck.

Another way of doing this is called bot management or bot slowing. It's covered in an article in the following link that is on this forum. [] scroll down to Taking advantage of the TSM algorithm.