Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 9)/@comment-208.167.241.249-20161024150212/@comment-26388545-20161024153533

If you can't get a big lead, there's another trick. Turn off steering assists and TC. Steering assists stop you from completely turning around. In fact, you can not even turn perpendicular to the track with steering on high. The only way to drive backwards is to reverse past the perpendicular point. So with steering and TC off, you can slilde your way accross the finish line for a cool and dramatic effect! Just take a wide arc as you near the line, steer hard one direction and lock up the brakes. Your car doesn't have to be perfectly backwards, just a little more than perpendicular will do.

You might say "I can't drive without TC and steering on high", no problem. Race as you normally do. As you near the finish line, pause the game and then turn off assists. I sometimes change assists several times in one race depending on the requirements. EX. for the "sskid for 1 continous second" races, I turn off TC and brakes & go to Tilt B when I want to do my slide. Then I turn some assists back on to finish.