Just curiousat the replies. I'm not sure what happened, but sometime between Friday and Saturday night all of a sudden a different level of comfort in-game came upon me. By "locked in" I mean when you finally started breaking through the beginner stage and started being a real nuisance ad a threat to your online opponents. I'm sure most of you may not even remember or were never really the rookie on the track, but try. All the varying responses should be interesting. Me personally, earlier today when I started racing, something just felt, well, different. I was losing by 5-6 seconds to 4-5 guys that were way higher ranked than me, but it was just me falling off or getting knocked off the track in screwed up ways. But then, i had a race where I made no major mistakes, made the podium. Then another with no major mistakes and its the last lap sebenco climo. I notice that me and 1st have broke away and I'm breathing down his back. I make a pickup and its a quake. I notice him do a rollbetween the second and third turns and again betweeen the 3rd and 4th. I knew that his energy had to be somewhat depleted so i use the quake just before i go over another pickup. next pickup was rockets. Fawk yeh! The quake smacked him before he could get airborne over the hump b4 the speed pads and the tunnel. I barrel roll land, fire and destroy him as i cruise to a 4 sec victory... Man, after all the speed laps and practice to try and get better, it was so satisfying! Sorry, for the rant, but the Grey Goose is actually speaking in clairvoyance through me at this point.