User blog comment:Guy Bukzi Montag/How to Live with the 2018 Spring Update Bugs: Lamborghini Aventador SV Multiplayer Cup/@comment-35924644-20180619075840/@comment-35924644-20180626093726

There are various tricks in asphalt 8 that Pros have been using for quite sometime, like – gap-trick, air-speed-trick etc.– to shorten their lap times. Gap-trick involves driving OVER a small gap to increase the speed of a car. It's tough to explain, but can best be observed in the videos of Sector 8 just before the dreaded final turn. Air-speed-trick is slightly easier (but lengthier) to explain. Air-speed means speed of a car in the air. Depending upon situations it can either be HIGHER or lower than the (Max) speed of a car on the ground with perfect or triple nitro. Higher air-speed can best be observed in Tenerife while falling down from 'that' cliff. Similarly, air-speed becomes higher whenever we fall down from a cliff regardless of its depth (e.g., the bridge in Barcelona). Air-speed becomes lower than the ground-speed whenever we go up in the air from a ramp or a barell or a 'bump' (slightly irregular elevations on road. e.g., in Alps after the first shortcut) on the ground. And sometimes, we are forced to use these regardless of our desire because they are part of the path we are taking (e.g., in Alps, dragon tree etc.). However, these bumps (unavoidable) and ramps (sometimes unavoidable) decrease the speed of our car, increase the air-time, thereby increasing the lap time. This is where air-speed tricks come to our rescue. [I will explain the air-speed-tricks in next reply. PS: it's such a pain commenting on this Wikia using a smartphone.]