Pit Stop

Quick Repairs no leaks 
At the track, between your races, you have to fix the car in anyway and disconnect everything. The fuel line is probably the most annoying one. Once you take the line off the Carbi it blows out fuel (which is wasted). Get a spare screw (not countersunk) so that it covers the tube and insert it in the tube. This will hold the fuel in and won’t waste or make a mess from the fuel.

Preparation Tips

Choosing Gear Ratios
First of all, for those who don't know what gear ratio is, a gear ratio is represented by X:Y where x is the # of rotations of the wheel and Y is the # of rotations of the motor or engine. For example, a gear ratio of 1:10 would mean in order to rotate the wheel once on the ground, the motor or engine must rotate 10 times (not going to go into the math of this here). Anyway, by decreasing the number of teeth on your pinion gear (gear attached to your motor or engine) you will achieve 2 effects. #1 Increase the overall acceleration of your vehicle #2 Decrease the top speed of your vehicle.

By increasing the number of teeth on your pinion gear, you get the opposite effect. Now for the good stuff. Before you put down your car to the track, study the design of the track. If the track is full of turns, go for a pinion gear that will give you more acceleration. The reason behind this is because by the time your car reaches top speed, the next turn would come up and your car must slow down again. On the other hand, tracks with many straight, long paths require a pinion gear that will give you more top speed while sacrificing acceleration. The reason behind this, a straight track will give you a longer period for your car to travel at top speed.

Driving Tips

Pile Up
Half of the time, in any sort of race, there will be a pile up of crashed cars in the first turn of the track. So just make sure you are not too aggressive in the first few turns; unless you are either a very good driver or you are starting #1 position.

The ART of Passing
On a one line track, the best passing zones are the entrances and exits of corners. When the car you're trying to pass gets a little wide you can drive under him. It's usually a real bad idea to try to pass on the outside of a corner. The only time you should even think about passing on the outside is if your opponent is significantly slower than your car. When I do go for a pass on the outside I try to find a spot where going wide in the corner will give me an advantage in the next corner or over the next obstacle. It's rare that you will be able to pull off a pass on the outside in one corner. When I try this, I'm usually just trying to come up even with them out of the corner in a place where it will put me on the inside at the next corner. (Key Point)

Learn to Avoid
This method is brutal on your car, but it will decrease your likely hood to crash by at lease 70%. At so many races, I've seen people fighting for a position lose the race because the guy in front slowed down while the guy in the back didn't brake and crashed straight into him. To practice this, I suggest having your friend run their car 1 feet in front of you then have him/her slow down to a dead stop. Your job is to either avoid or brake without touching the other car. Make no mistake, I am not making this up. I've seen a driver tailing a guy at top speed 1 foot behind then braking to prevent a crash. Hey, this could train your reaction time too!!

Pratice Cuting the Sharpest Corners! (without hurting your car)
Common sense, person who takes the inside lane on a track will go around the track faster, right? Wrong, not if you hit the CORNER! So here’s how I practice my corner cutting. I simply find a basketball court where there is a circle in the middle. Then I run my car on the outside of that circle and try my best not to cross to the inside of the circle. Sounds easy huh? It works! Next I started to decrease the distance from my car to the circle until I was running only 1 inch away from it! Now that's skill.