Normal strats are safe but boring. Go fast. Kill your runs. Do boost strats. Here's how:

CC is mostly about knowing how to maneuver the buggy so that you maintain your momentum when landing without spinning out. In general, you need the front tires to hit first, and you want them angled down. If you're hitting a slope, you also want to tilt the buggy so that you're kinda meeting it, kinda like this

It may be beneficial to release "A" for a sec after landing, but once you get confident in fast buggy movement that becomes less important Anyway, your goal is to basically boost off cool down, so the path looks like this: Boost here while going very slightly right

(Make sure you hold the A button after a boost btw) It'll come off cool down around here. Boost again and start tapping the control stick (up) left. Your goal is to drive over the left corner of the ramp

There are a few launch angles you can get. The better ones send you straight down to that dip, but as long as you actually go left it should be manageable. Here I want to angle my tires down and the buggy right

I land here after that. There's a chance I wipe out, so I want to try and ease myself down and right so that I'm lined up to just go forward

You'll probably come down off the slope, so you'll technically be in the air. Just angle the buggy down a bit so that the front tires hit and you'll be fine

Boost when you've comfortably landed and just go forward. If you don't boost a car will probably land on you and kill the buggy. You can potentially boost twice here, but the second boost doesn't really do much afaik (it's like right before the boost pad, and sometimes it'll cause you to whiff it entirely lol)

It doesn't particularly matter if you have a really sus angle there. As long as you can clip the boost pad with literally any part of the buggy it'll autocorrect your position You can either land with the front or back tires here. Both will prevent a bounce and can retain your momentum if done correctly, but I prefer going with the front. Back tires can put you in a wheelie which sometimes causes you to crash into the bit in front of you, though they'll keep your momentum more often. Front tires sometimes stop your momentum (though you can just boost to pick it back up somewhat), but if you sweetspot it you'll keep your momentum while wheelie'ing with the front tires

Unlike the back tires, you have full control of the buggy as long as the front tires are on the ground, so you can boost while going right You can do a boost here, though I typically don't. If you do, just keep landing mechanics in mind (tire angling)

When you get to this part, tap X a few times to break (it slows you down MUCH faster than "B")

Your angle should look like this. Go for a boost

Tap left to straighten yourself out and avoid this geyser, though. If you hit it, just angle the front tires down

You can do a second boost here if you want, but you'll need to slow down a lot with X. I typically avoid it if I have an angle like this. Sometimes you'll have a good line up to double boost, though, which would make this spot a triple boost.

Instead, I hold "A" all the way through. You'll kinda launch

Start angling the buggy down left, might wanna release "A" for a sec when you land

(You want to gently land tho. I slacked after releasing pause and crashed because I had too harsh of an angle) You should land something like this. Pray that your buggy has enough health because you're going to take 2 unavoidable phantom hits to the health bar through here. If you did the previous sections correctly you'll be fine, otherwise your buggy will probably die right as you exit the halfpipe.

Anyway, boost. You should be able to do 3 with the last one happening just as you exit the halfpipe Angle is important. You want to be on the right side, of course, but how high up matters. If you're higher up the buggy will be airborne longer, but if you go a bit lower you can angle the buggy to land and preserve momentum which can be a bit faster I believe

This one was pretty slow overall, but ggs. You landed

(Last screenie got through with a 51.7) If everything goes correctly you should consistently get through with ~50s 48s are possible on incredibly good runs, mid 49s are doable. Iirc, you're on very good pace if you hit the second rail around 38 seconds It can take a fair bit of practice, but it's super worth.