Quote Originally Posted by SaturnReturn View Post
Sometimes sl is so much about the BRs and boost location that lines lose out, particularly as you often have to concentrate on a good boost at the start of the lap as well as the normal boost location
Oh oh, no ! Maybe for a good rank but for a rank 1 to 5 on sl, you really need both (BRs, good boost/BR AND GOOD LINES) ! At least at phantom speed. The
margin still exist on several tracks. As an example, to reach top 5 on anulpha pass phantom sl (the most practiced track) you have to include your BRs on practically perfect lines. If you can only perform the BRs = rank 25+.
Rank 1 on TT are reachable with 2/3 mistakes (some BRs missed, wall's hits, lines missed). 99 speedlaps in a row helps to acquire automatism that will be very usefull on TT. Personnaly i feel a much bigger margin on TT than sl, my main problems are the concentration and my perfectionism, if i don't start a TT with a practically perfect lap (like my pb on sl) i restart the race, and doing those starts is very scarce, lol. IMHO, difficulty on TT isn't to have good lines, but to succeed 5 X hard BRs or boosts that are already hard to perform once on sl (i'm sure Pirahpac would agree with that.) So no, mate, your lines can't lose out for a rank 5 to 1 on sl (phantom)