Talk:Renault Alpine Celebration (Research & Development)/@comment-1.23.148.125-20170205063533/@comment-30074072-20170206204757

23 keys later (!), I finally beat it. My heart is still pumping. Thanks for your advice. my 2 cents more:

-- Tripple Nitro: Captain Abhi is definitely right -- beginning, end, after dropping off the ledge and before the big drop, all triple nitro.

-- Perfect Nitro: after the big drop, from middle of U turn to the cave, by boulder to the flat spin, and of course after the flat spin. I did not beat it until I got on perfect nitro in the middle of the U turn and picked up that nitro bottle after the U turn. I was running out of nitro after the boulder, always got passed by the AI, and could never catch up.

-- the cave, oh, the pesky cave. I finally tried doing a couple quick drifts and triple-nitros while in the cave to keep on the shortest line between the two nitro barrels in there. once I did this, it only took me a couple keys to beat it.

-- Elite HectorX starts the entrance to the cave half way up the left wall, then jumps to the right wall nitro barrel. He's the only one I've seen take the cave that way. I tried this but couldn't get it right -- too high on the left wall entrance and you crash. I messed up at the beginning of a race not noticing I wasn't starting with full nitro boost, so I got to follow the AI through the cave -- it takes a low central middle route. The cave was my hangup, I was trying to keep a line and erratic. Once I stayed low and did two quick drifts, I was ok.