Quote Originally Posted by superpj1 View Post
... and you will explode in 5 minutes
Hopefully it never takes you 5 minutes to finish any of the 16 tracks !

I have had the same thought: Pick a ship with a better shield - survive a little bit longer. But it doesn´t seem to work out that way - for me at least. I´ll explode even faster because of wall-scraping and hitting bombs/mines, I would have avoided using a lighter and more manoeuvrable ship.
What I like to do is "warming up" using some less manoeuvrable ship like the Piranha.a. or Triakis, then going back to my beloved and now even more responsive Feisar.