Just a very brief intro for my first post on this forum - I have nostalgic memories of the '95 original and fairly recently bought a PSP pretty much just to play WipEout Pure and Pulse, as HD was obviously still "on hold" back then.
Now that WipEout HD is finally here - and I've been hooked for well over five hours today so far - I would very much like to increase my extremely modest skills.

Practice, practice and even more practice is of course the main road towards that - and I'm certainly going to need it, as in grid three and four I'm already getting my behind kicked by the AI on novice on some tracks (most notably Chenghou Project and Sebenco Climb) - but I have a practical question as well.

I've just done the grid 4 zone race on Chenghou Project, and even on the very first lap I simply can't make the sharp left turn before the first jump without banging into the wall, no matter how hard or how early I hit that airbrake.
In non-zone modes this is obviously where I would briefly let go of the throttle, but surely all you WipEout veterans out there don't have corners on any tracks in any modes where you're actually forced to hit the wall?
Is there a technique for taking these very sharp turns without getting off the throttle (which obviously isn't an option in zone mode), or is millisecond timing the only option?