what I did:
- Beat the game
- Unlock all vehicles, drive with them. This means a 3 star time on all stages in time trials
- Watch route videos (may happen during step 2)
- Try out those routes, this will likely involve playing the courses backwards
- Mess around for a few hours
- watch the any% and IL WRs
- Mess around for a few hours
- do some runs
To get good, You have to practise with the cars before running, We tend to use 3-4 cars not including banana car
for any% you would most likely be using tofu machine or TZ9 for RCO% you would be using V47 or T54 for no skips it would most likely be T54, but if you can get really godly at V47, use V47 on that map (FF NS% does this)
Tips for the cars: T54 is great for no skips for its stability on the road, you can take turns a lot harder/closer as it doesn't drift as often as other cars. you don't have to be as careful with this car, so getting used to this quickly can help you, but don't get used to it so much as it can ruin your skill with other cars
V47 is a moderate car for the each category, its stability is not too bad and has more speed than the T54, which makes it better in some cases. To use this car, make sure you take wider turns than the T54 to avoid drifting as it loses major speed.
Tofu machine is a speedy car, It is VERY UNSTABLE ON THE ROAD, make sure you practise this car A LOT if you wanna run any% as the top runners hardly slow down.
I won't go into TZ9 that much as it's not used in any category but basically its just faster than Tofu machine and it's more unstable I guess? (which also makes it a car nobody uses)
If you are having trouble drifting/ turning a corner, try turning slower, or maybe even let go of W for a bit.
If anything is wrong here, let me know