The Boonta Training Course

The Boonta Training Course is the first track in the Amateur Circuit, and the first track in the game. As the game's introductory course, it is widely considered one of the most straightforward tracks.

## Features

The track's layout consists of a fairly simple winding path through canyons, opening up into a wide final straight. The defining features of the track are its dangerously narrow exit to the enclosed canyon, and the final straight itself, which features a field of destructible boulders with the power to slow the player and interrupt boosts.

The track is also marked by the presence of a lap skip, which can be executed by scaling one of the canyon walls near the start of the track, launching over a void and landing behind the track's start line. If successfully executed, this jump removes over 50% of the track's distance.

The Boonta Training Course has one of the less steep learning curves among tracks in Racer. At the highest level, however, the track nevertheless presents significant challenges and a number of technical optimizations that make the pursuit of world-record times highly challenging.

## Full Track Strategy

#### Wallride

Optimal BTC full track strategy revolves around the use of relatively low traction to skip the first half of the final boulder straight by wallriding to launch off of the hill to the left of the final canyon exit. As always, care must be taken to avoid the offroad on either side of the enclosed canyon. Proper heat management into the lap 3 canyon is imperative in order to properly catch fire just before the finish line.

TFPS: 24/600

#### High traction

Alternatively, players can opt for a strategy that utilizes higher traction to maintain an extended boost through the canyon exit and the boulder straight, achieving a longer boost and no offroad, at the cost of a slightly inferior line. While dominant for many years in BTC full track, high traction strategies are now generally recognized as being slightly slower than newer wallride strategies.

TFPS: 60/600

## Skips Strategy

The basic BTC skips route revolves around scaling the wall at the end of the left side of the first open area of the course, gaining enough height to fly above the collision and land behind the start line, cutting out the majority of the track.

Fully upgraded, the skip can be performed with any pod. With no upgrades, the skip can be performed with several pods, including Ark "Bumpy" Roose, Wan Sandage, and Ebe Endecott (the latter used in the 100% skips route because of his availability early).

Tactics for optimizing BTC skip include latching onto the wall quickly with the correct combination of angle and speed, as well as knowing exactly how much height is necessary to make it over the collision mesh. With Mars Guo, considered the optimal pod for upgraded BTC skips, the player can execute more advanced tactics such as bouncing onto the climbable wall using the rock pillar in the earlier section, and even boosting over the collision wall itself.

Fast lap route. TFPS: 24/20

No upgrades route. TFPS: 60/20

## Trivia

### WR History

3 Lap Full Track WRs

* 1:38.258 - April, 2002 - Myles Bukrim
* 1:37.904 - August 3, 2004 - Myles Bukrim
* 1:36.975 - January 11, 2009 - MikeyBurger
* 1:36.839 - December 10, 2009 - MikeyBurger
* 1:36.295 - February 8, 2010 - MikeyBurger
* 1:36.203 - April 2, 2010 - MikeyBurger
* 1:36.158 - April 6, 2010 - MikeyBurger
* 1:36.140 - November 14, 2011 - MikeyBurger
* 1:36.133 - January 24, 2014 - DaveyRacer
* 1:36.109 - January 24, 2014 - DaveyRacer
* 1:36.098 - April 16, 2014 - DaveyRacer
* 1:36.043 - July 1, 2014 - DaveyRacer
* 1:36.019 - May 27, 2017 - Cobalt
* 1:35.995 - May 27, 2017 - Cobalt
* 1:35.990 - December 10, 2017 - DaveyRacer
* 1:35.894 - December 13, 2017 - Cobalt
* 1:35.843 - January 28, 2018 - DaveyRacer
* 1:35.787 - December 19, 2018 - MikeyBurger
* 1:35.783 - January 11, 2019 - DaveyRacer
* 1:35.771 - January 13, 2019 - DaveyRacer
* 1:35.761 - January 17, 2019 - Cobalt
* 1:35.652 - January 22, 2019 - Cobalt
* 1:35.648 - November 18, 2019 - Cobalt
* 1:35.627 - November 23, 2019 - Cobalt
* 1:35.585 - November 24, 2019 - Cobalt
* 1:35.488 - December 13, 2019 - Cobalt
* 1:35.485 - January 16, 2020 - Methodical
* 1:35.414 - December 5, 2020 - Ace
* 1:35.390 - July 4, 2021 - Ace
* 1:35.278 - October 16, 2021 - Domirae
* 1:35.166 - October 16, 2021 - Ace
* 1:35.165 - October 28, 2021 - Domirae
* 1:34.997 - October 28, 2021 - Domirae