I have some tips for three of these tracks that might help if someone's stuck on them. And a tip at the end for you to try, Lewis. Cortex Castle: There's a way to get a bit more reserves to work with. The boost pad that gives you blue flames actually extends further than it appears to; the wooden ramp is actually part of it too. Since boost pads add to your reserves each time you hit them, hitting the same one twice will double the reserves it gives you. This is one of the few tracks that this is actually useful for. as soon as you hit the pad and get blue flames, jump and you'll hit the wooden ramp and get an extra boost. Admittedly, this isn't much, but it helped me hold onto blue flames longer than I had before. Deep Sea Driving: The turns and the blades are the killers in this track. I was able to get rid of one of these concerns by switching to Acceleration (I usually play Speed). At first I did do worse on the track, because I wasn't used to the sharper turning. But once I got the hang of it, I no longer got flung all over that darn pipe at the end. The blades are still difficult to get around, but the turning helps. ALSO: the last two blades. I found the easiest way to handle those was to jump and U-turn right before them, so that I was going through them head on, instead of at an awkward curve. Out of Time: This is another case of a different class leading to an easier time. I don't know why, but Drift class made it easier to maintain blue fire when hopping over that fence. This could just be a personal thing, but I've seen other people saying the switching to Drift helped on this track. If nothing else, it's worth trying. This, in my opinion, is the most technically demanding track in the time trials (though that title will probably go to Drive-Thru Danger when the Beenox times come out). Hot Air Skyway: This one's just a tip that might help Lewis. Try drifting up the ramp towards the barrier and jump (as you do in the video), but don't start your U-turn until you've cleared the barrier. It may take a few attempts to get a feel for how far to turn, since you'll have less time to do it. But I've found this to be the easiest way to take that shortcut consistently.

2:50 "I never actually hit the spider" clip shows him hitting the spider.

Velo: “As ruler of this galaxy, I’ll own this Grand Prix!” *Falls off track on Drive-Thru Danger*

WumpaLewis: the velo races were hard. Beenox trials: allow us to introduce ourselves

They removed the worms from Out of Time as the developers felt that it was too similar to Papu’s Pyramid with the plants that eat you. Especially since the anti-grav section with the clock was removed

3:44 I love how Velo looks like he's looking at your cam screen saying to himself "bro you good?" lol

2:50 “I never actually hit the spider.” Hits the spider next clip lol I love you dude ❤️

When you can’t even beat some oxide trials yet

The only one that really broke me was Gingerbread Joyride. I spent an hour trying to beat that stupid ghost, and it always felt like bullshit that was outside of my control when I failed or had to restart

I cracked a code with Deep Sea Driving.... If you hold blue flame etc. so you're pretty much with neck and neck with velo, or slightly better, the gap in the blades are always at the bottom by the time you get there. Secondary point, I had an epiphany realising that once you're in the tubes you can just hold acceleration and multi hop to each of the turbo pads (which keeps your blue flame reserve) and basically coast through to the turbo pad at the end there General tip for you Lewis too is... sometimes it's better to drift boost off of turbo pad jumps without jumping at all, especially evident in Hyper Spaceway, to keep the blue flame in again in the laser tubes or through the portals you simply start a powerslide before the ramp and let gravity get you across while 3x boosting mid-air, often I'd hop into the hyper laser tube (especially online) and lose my blue flame (Now I tell myself "idiot" whenever I hop) Also, I reckon all the Dev Times will be equal or worse than Out of Time, I find it incredible you beat nearly all in

I Just began to play this game，awesome！Love your content.

Lewis mad respect for you for going through all of this, best of luck for the faster times next month man.

Imagine Velo is real and you have to beat his time trials. We're doomed...

Hey, just some advice for sewer speedway: - If you can be somewhat consistent, learn to look at your time when you pass the barrels. They are always in the same place at the same time so you can predict where they will be each round. -Hit the shortcut the straight on every time. Your jump will get boosted and you'll make it 99.99% of the time. Hug the walls in the last "sewer" section ( after the second barrel) you save like almost a second per lap.

2:29 the cortex castle song went perfect with wumpalewis explaining why it can be difficult

Out of time attempt 76 Such a new classic om this channel

Crazy part is, It's because of the Velo Time Trials that I started watching your content. I even called it when Velo stole that victory right from under you. Honestly, We feel your pain, but "it's only funny when it happens to someone else". -Richard Watterson (Amazing World Of Gumball -love that show.)

I used to play the original CTR as a kid. Recently I started watching your videos about the game and it made me pick up a nintendo switch with the remaster and Im loving every second of it all thank to you

I’m so bad at this game I can’t even beat some of N TROPY’s ghosts yet, so I’m super impressed by the players racing Oxide and Velo ghosts

I was debating getting this game this weekend and your videos have made that debate end. I gotta play this lol. Was always one of the best racers ever for me

I found hard: - Gingerbread Joyride - Deepsea Driving - And maybe Cortex Castle

Yeah, glad i'm not the only one who feels that Hot Air Skyway's fence hop shortcut has some dodgy air physics, that track took me over an hour to beat Velo on, longer than I spent on Cortex Castle, Spyro Circuit, Deep Sea Driving and Out of time *combined*.

I have a lot to learn. From the time relics and those damn boxes to shortcuts. Great video.

I admit I couldn't stop watching your OoT attempts. 😂 What tracks were the hardest for me? NONE

I loved the velo ghost videos can’t wait for the benox ones.

i really struggled with dragon mines, i needed a whole hour.

On Deep Sea Driving, I found out a way how you can stop hitting those damn forsaken fans in the tunnel and its quite simple, once you enter the tunnel, drift around the first corner and when your drifting around the corner, half way through, jump/hop and continue drifting. I don't know it does it but that small jump allows you pass the fans without hitting a single one even the double ones at the end, you still need to control your kart but trust me its easier. By doing this method I beat Emperor Velo's time by 10 seconds and yes, doing this method works on all laps.

I really like your content. Keep it up!

I’m actually kind surprised that you didn’t put Out of time in number 1

Only got 3 Velo Ghost times to beat and they're all a pain in the arse 😤 Dragon Mines, Cortex Castle and Out Of Time. My God Out Of Time is an absolute bastard when it comes to the Velo Ghost, mainly when you try and keep blue flame going for a whole lap.

My reaction to Developer times approaching: Let's blast through with Sonic speed!

Posted it on your part 4 but here it is again. My top 5 hardest Velo ghosts: 5. Clockwork Wumpa 4. Dingo Canyon 3. Deep Sea Driving 2. Cortex Castle 1. Out of Time I didnt find any of the bonus ones particularly challenging. Just, for Drive-Thru Danger, better perfect that u-turning.

If you're having issues doing Deep Sea Driving: Use the handling engine. You can thank me later.

I’ve rewatched your velo trials series 3 times before this lol

6:26 Lewis: I can’t hold blue flame around the spiral in papu’s pyramid. Papu’s pyramid: I don’t have blue flame, oh sacred flame you mean, ok -_- lol

After 3 months we still waiting the top 5 hardest dev time video

Great job Lewis! Your big fan from Slovakia Jakub (9 yrs old), I have beated Developer in 3 tracks so far, I ak watching your videos every day, very inspiring

I find interesting how most people struggle with Out of Time, Deep Sea Driving and Cortex Castle when those weren't that hard for me, but instead I had wayyyy too much difficulty with Spyro Circuit, Nina's Nightmare and Gingerbread Joyride and I dont see that many people struggling with those lol

Papu’s Pyramid is a ridiculously hard and unfair track, so I don’t blame you for having trouble with it. Both it and Papu Papu spamming potions is what made his boss fight so agonizing...

Out of time in kind of troll because at the end of lap 3 Velo bumps into something or even falls into the pit, I don't remember which was it. The worst part is that most people restart as soon as Velo gets ahead of them a reasonable distance, when in reality it might not even be necessary, cause like i said, at the end Velo fucks up giving you extra time to catch up.

My top 5 hardest Velo Ghosts 1- Out Of Time 2- Out Of Time 3- Out Of Time 4- Out Of Time 5- Out Of Time Honourable Mentions: Out Of Time, Out Of Time, Out Of Time, Out Of Time, And Out Of Time. Did I also forget to mention Out Of Time?

Looking forward to your beenox attempts. Man thats going be mad

Only track I had issues on was Dragon Mines because I can't do that shortcut. I guess Blizzard Bluff too but only because I just suddenly stopped being able to do the first shortcut for whatever reason and I just kept landing just short of not being out of bounds for a while but then when I finally beat him I magically could do the fence hop three times in a row when I always struggled with that.

The developers better not be any good on Deep Sea Driving, that track is absolutely egregious in its design.

You make this game look like a tool assisted speedrun. King!

On Hot Air SkyWay to do the last shortcut u need to do ir more on the right side or u will loose the blueflame or fall off That help me A LOT nice video btw

Deep Sea Driving was absolute hell. It took me about 20-30 tries to get it down. Throughout the trial, I started to memorize and also time correctly on the blades cycle. Eventually I managed to clutch it in the end, which was so satisfying.

Bro just finished the *Velo time trials* an GOD!!!! THANK GOD ITS FINALLY OVER! *Developer Time Trials:* Allow us to introduce ourselfs.

I totally empathise with your feelings after the Out of Time incident... 😂 for me, my worst were Out of Time, Sypro Circuit, Gingerbread Joyride, Deep Sea Driving and Cortex Castle. Those dev times can do one! Ha ha.

Nice list overall, I like the fact that there was a bit of variety compared to Oxide's Time Trials. As for me, here's my personal list from my experience with beating Velo's Time Trials: 1. Dragon Mines 2. Out of Time 3. Deep Sea Driving 4. Drive Thru Danger 5. Nina's Nightmare (Although Drive Thru Danger is mostly hard cause I still haven't learned that map properly yet) As for honourable mentions I do in fact have a few of them. And they are: Papu's Pyramid, Turbo Track, and Sewer Speedway.

I just now beat all of Velo’s time trials and I have never felt such a sense of accomplishment! The hardest ones for me were Hot Air Skyway, Cortex Castle and Out Of Time.

what's up polar just wanted to let you know I'm a big fan of yours!

I think the reason the worms from out of time were removed was because of the plants in papu’s pyramid and would’ve just been too similar. That’s what I’ve heard.

TheViperian actually has a few tutorials on beating the Emperor Velo Ghosts for those still struggling on them. Really helpful especially for Deep Sea Driving.

With the hot air skyway shortcut, you’re air breaking not U-Turning in the hair which is why you stop in place, you’ll be able to do it with ease if you hold reverse in the hair too so you’ll be able to move forward over the barrier

Not sure about top 5 but my top 3 are definitely cortex castle, deep sea driving and out of time which I'm still working on now... spyro circuit would be my honorable mention though

first good channel of CTR that i actually like love you'r vids #nohomo

These are insanely hard and I don’t understand how you can beat them. World class

These were my 5 hardest: #5 - Spyro Circuit #4 - Deep Sea Driving #3 - Cortex Castle #2 - Hot Air Skyway #1 - Out of Time

I love your accent NO HOMO

I'm hooked on your channel! Your commentary and effort to beat some of the time trials are very relatable and funny. Your 76th attempt on Out of Time was legendary. Its crazy to see how much better we've gotten on the tracks since beating Oxides Time Trials. The Hardest Velo Times for me were: 1. Out of Time 2. Deep Sea Driving 3. Oxide Station 4. Dragon Mines 5. Nina's Nightmare 6. Cortex Castle Also, question for you, what do you think will be the hardest tracks to beat Beenox on? For me personally I wasn't able to hold blue flames for an entire lap on either of these tracks and think these will be the hardest Beenox times for me. 1. Oxide Station 2. Cortex Castle 3. Thunder Struck 4. Turbo Track 5. Electron Avenue 6. Clockwork Wumpa Keep up the good videos man!

The only Velo ghosts I struggled with were Deep Sea Driving, Nina's Nightmare and Out Of Time.

Honestly, I feel like you should rework your Oxide Ghost Times Top 5, for many reasons. Some tracks got fixed (Notably Sewer Speedway) and you got better at the game, so that would probably give you a new perspective on things.

Idk why but jungle boogie gave me the most rage... just finished the last one today (OOT) wasn’t as bad as I thought still took an hour though. Dragon mines took the longest cause I wanted to learn its shortcut

All I can think about is how crazy it would be to see someone do a Velo speedrun all tracks no restarts...

1:20 And to this day he never made a hardest dev times list.

Now that I think about it, I think that Turbo Track has the potential for being one of the hardest Beenox times, both Oxide and Velo aren't doing too good of a job at that triple hairpin section, but an actual good time on this might prove to be VERY difficult :p

I finished Velo times like a week ago and my top 5 is exactly the same as yours, just changing the order

Deepsea & Out of time: We are the hardest yeah Turbo Track: Let me introduce myself

Good job 👌

Hot air skyway was one of the first I tried and nailed it in a few attempts. So far only really through CTR tracks, except for cortex castle which I've actively avoided

I've said my piece on Blizzard Bluff, but Spyro Circuit comes close. I only just crossed the line milliseconds before Velo. I seem to struggle with the simpler tracks where blue flame isn't available. On tracks like Cortex Castle, Polar Pass, Drive-Thru Danger, Out of Time, Oxide Station, Hot Air Skyway and Twilight Tour, Velo makes mistakes that are sometimes your key to victory. But tracks like Crash Cove, Sewer Speedway, Coco Park, Spyro Circuit and Nina's Nightmare, he's practically perfect and even the slightest mistake will greet you with a one-way ticket back to the start line.

A good video idea if you need ideas... Do All Oxide times on OG CTR and Velo times on CNK :D

Great video, you should do a video rating all 8 gp (bonus) tracks from worst to best, rating them from music, track design, online performance, etc. Just an idea.

For the shortcut at the end of hot air skyway I think the issue is with the way you're u-turning, at least by looking at these clips. When your kart rotates mid-air like that without actually changing trajectory it usually means that you're pressing left or right on the d-pad but not down at the same time.

6:25 Maybe you can't hold blue fire because the track hasn't blue fire😂 Ps: I feel with you, I hate deep sea driving

I read a post on reddit that hitting the blue fire pad on cortex castle (so driving over it and then jumping to hit it again) actually gives you a lot of reserves, I tried it and it actually seemed to help, but that might be a placebo idk. But it wouldnt hurt to give it a shot to see if it helps

My top 5 is: - Deepsea Driving - Crash Cove - Sewer Speedway - Out of Time - Gingerbread Joyride I finished beating them all yesterday and it was a good challenge, it definitely pushed me to improve on some tracks and figure out some new strategies, I'm both looking forward to and dreading the dev times coming out next month, it'll be interesting to see if I even got close to some of them because on some tracks I beat Velo by a fairly large gap (like around 20 seconds or so) Also for that last turn on Hot Air Skyway what I do is move a bit towards the right and when I make the jump I hold the U-Turn all the way until I'm on the ground, sometimes I jump a bit too much from the left and what I have to do is jump again when I land and for a split second I'm actually off the track on the right edge and then land back on the track while I'm still U-turning, I know it sounds confusing but it's what I figured to have a high success rate at clearing that section because most of my losses at first were because of that.

So you’re Polarsaurus Rex...always enjoy seeing Xbox content creators on this game

My top 3 worst were (#3) Cortex Castle (like you said, maintaining blue fire on those turns is a nightmare at times), (#2) Koala Carnival (I had to stay on the inside the whole time, those jumps by the fire traps can kill my speed, and I only beat him by about 15 milliseconds) and (#1) Out of Time (it took me 45-50 minutes to beat). Deep Sea Driving did take me a few tries but I was calm about those as opposed to the 3 I mentioned.

Love your content. Still trying to get used to u turning. Hard keeping blue flame

I did the majority of the tracks with drift class. Even though I always used speed since I started playing. But I've read drift class is really good on alot of tracks... well that was the best advice for beating these velo times. It was so much easier as trying to beat them all with speed class.

Papu's pyramid was the one I lost my mind on. BUT, sewer speedway barrels have patterns. I don't remember them out of memory, but if you go from one of the sides and succeed, it'll be the same on that lap always. Just do the same trick if you have to repeat.

So glad that he had the same middle finger in the thumbnail.

I'm just about to defeat all of Emperor Velo's ghosts as well, only Electron Avenue and Hyper Spaceway remaining, and I've been beating them all as my dude Megamix. It's really funny, I used to have an absolutely frustrating experience just beating all of Dr. N Tropy's ghosts at the time I just began playing the game (which is merely two months ago), which made me actively avoid Nitros Oxide's times for a while... until after some time I decided to try them out and was surprised at how suddenly easy they mostly felt to me, and right now even with Velo's I was able to get through them with mostly little issue as well. It became clear that I've been getting better at this game and I haven't even noticed, to the point where there were tracks that I long dreaded doing these times the most on initially but overcame surprisingly quickly in the end (like Assembly Lane or Blizzard Bluff). That being said, as for my own 5 choices as to which tracks were the hardest to beat his times on: 5. Deep Sea Driving - Same reason as you... and pretty much everyone else. Seriously, unpredictable obstacle movement is a major annoyance no matter what. 4. Spyro Circuit - I find the track in terms of structure to be annoying in general and Oxide's time there tested my patience quite a lot, but Velo's time here really came across as a perfect run I was asked to do, though it weirdly didn't take me half as long to overcome than Oxide's time. 3. Out of Time - I should have expected something tasking when Velo's ghost is 33 goddamn seconds faster than Oxide's, and with how much I was tasked with keeping the blue flame under these circumstances I got annoyed relatively quickly. Though shockingly I do feel like I took way less attempts than you... I don't know, just a gut feeling, I don't really count losses, I just accept them. 2. Nina's Nightmare/Gingerbread Joyride - I put them in a tie because I had essentially the same annoyance with them, what with the absolutely demanding blue flame speeds and lengths that were expected of me in these corner-laden tracks. And because Oxide's times alone on them were so frustrating to me, these two tracks especially were the main reason I chose to go after Velo's times in the Bonus tracks FIRST before going after CTR's and CNK's, just to get this shit done with. 1. Dragon Mines - Only my Number 1 because this was the first time where I felt like I've hit an actual roadblock in overcoming Velo's times (Again, I finished the Bonus tracks before this) due to my absolutely horrendous turning with that dumbass spiral. A close call was truly the best I could have gotten out of it, and it's really telling that a close call is the only expected thing when the developer time afterwards is mere MILLISECONDS faster. I definitely won't bother with the developer times. I suck way too much for them.

Currently stuck on Out of Time. I somehow managed to completely fluke Deep Sea Driving on the 3rd attempt by avoiding the blades each time, but I doubt I’ll be as lucky next month lol. Pro tip for speed mains: switch to drift. It’s so much easier to build your reserves and the extra turn really helps.

I’m amongst those who are also glad those worms on out of time are gone :p haven’t tried Sewer speedway yet but dreading it. I struggled with the same tracks as you. I still can’t master the shortcut on blizzard buff. Dreading Oxide station etc. Also, you’re an author? What can I buy of yours?

I can’t tell u how many invisible walls I’ve hit through my journey of these velo time trials, I got two more maps lefts.

I have a pretty much identical list! Deep Sea Driving, Cortex Castle and Out Of Time in the top 3. Gingerbread Joyride and Dragon Mines took the other two spots though

Now you've beaten the devs you should do all the velo times from start to finish again and see how good you've gotten

you say you know u turning and air breaking yey youre doing the wrong one on the last shortcut in hit air m9 :P oh btw top tip for anyone struggling with deep sea: use the closer camera angle, lets you see the blades better, wr holder does it as well

I beat Out of Time & surprisingly Deep Sea Driving in a couple tries. I remember Deep Sea Driving giving me so much crap during the Oxide times. The hardest for me so far(since I haven't completed the all the Velo times) was Crash Cove when playing my primary class(balanced) and I barely beat him with Drift.

This dudes commentary is gold lol

I've only recently beaten all the ntropy times and have only beaten a few oxide times. But the two tracks that I had the most fits over were blizzard bluff and oxide station. Never successfully hopped that damn fence.

3:42 I’m sorry man I just never get tired of that 😂

Lewis: I just cant keep my blue flame on papus pyramid Me: yes very big brain moment

Plot twist: Beenox hires 250crash250 to set the dev times.

Funny how it's different to everyone ! I had only issues on dragon mines and deep sea. I guess it's because I played a lot of TT ^^ can't wait to try the dev times ! Would be nice to have a TT reset. Because of people who used all glitchs, you can't know your classment... Like in Dingo Canyon. I was in the top 100 in past, and then more than 3000 because of these glitchs...

You really inspire me to beat these time trials but I am fucking stuck at crash cove!

Oxides TT were not that hard, but some tracks this guy is a pain in the ass.