Soon after you start the race there will be a fork in the road, go to the right and head straight, soon you will see an open mine shaft, go in it and hug the right wall, there will be a ramp that you can jump off and onto a higher mine shaft. When you are about halfway through the strip mine course, you will se a house with a dirt parking lot, stay to the right and you will go upon a narrow dirt road with a jump on it, go off the ramp and stay as far to the right as you can, you will be on a road that would have been blocked off if you didn't jump over it. by taking those short cuts, you can almost garuntee 1st or 2nd place.