There doesn't seem to be a lot of love for Detonator mode out there. Maybe its because its quite different from traditional Wipeout? Its become my favourite mode anyway.

There's a great guide to detonator on page 10 of this thread by Darkdrium777 - well worth a read.

One of the reasons I like it is that there's quite a few different strategies to playing it. On the leaderboards, I've always destroyed between 10 and 20% fewer mines than those on the same score as me. There's usually someone on the same score who's destroyed 30% more mines than me. I've obviously got a different strategy to them - not sure if I'm missing a tactic. I'm certainly missing something compared to people like Itosiki on the Wipeout Rankings site. He's got some incredible scores.