Yep. ^ this. I call it the weapon slide.

About the mind games, there is nothing more intimidating than a pilot holding on to a turbo for me. If I'm 2 seconds ahead and I notice someone holding a turbo, I know they are just waiting for that shortcut. Even worse is when I have a turbo I'm holding and someone else does too. It puts the pressure on to land that shortcut or lose the race. Another fun thing to do is when a full lobby chooses the same ship or they all choose a Fury version, and then you change to the non Fury version or use a different ship. I had a race the other night where it was nothing but Fury Icaras. I swapped out to a Tigron, won the race, and then everyone else swapped to Tigron! Given this was not a lobby full of pros, but still I thought it was a little funny. It's like "what does this Tigron guy know that I don't? Guess I'll find out."