Mental Drifts, a beginner's nightmare

No sooner after i had finished the review for Battle Scars, the TMX team decided to replace it with a new track with the intriguing name "Mental Drifts". Built by CheZz, who is a relative newcomer to the track building community.
With the first couple of tries, this track had me literally tearing my hair out as i attempted to find the best line to do the drop near the start with as much as speed possible to get to the next corner successfully.
Certainly not a track for the newer players as it will be probably almost impossible for them to do that part i mentioned successfully not to mention you will get a rather slow lap time if you are not competent at drifting and getting the correct driving lines.

Here's a little screenshot of that bit which i have been talking about for the past few sentences, you have to get as much speed as possible approaching from the left road into the little bend ahead otherwise you will end up crashing into the edge of the road.
It is very important that you are patient with these kind of tracks as i have found that you tend to start to love the track more and more as you start practicing it more. It is a shame that some people does not have the patience to do so and never manage to complete the track to judge it fairly, that is why there are so many underrated tracks on the TMX website screaming out for awards but not getting any because people does not have the patience to finish these kind of tracks properly and award it.

Fair kudos to the TMX team for coming across this little gem of a track fairly quickly and putting it in its rightful place, the Showcase.

Personally, my favourite part of the whole track is the next 2 corners after the drop. You get an incredible amount of adrenaline flowing through your blood as you go so close to the kerb of the corner with a lot of speed then you come up to a little cute corner where you need to drift to avoid crashing into the wall.
After going through the checkpoint, you come up to a little downwards corner where you need to drift gently to maximise your speed landing on the grass.
It is crucial and determinable to how good a lap time you are going to get if you do the section mentioned in the above paragraph with as much speed as possible, as i found out due to the high variations of time i got going through the check point. It varied from as low as 18.3 to as high as 19.5 seconds.

Against all odds, the track builder still manages to keep the amazing flow of the track throughout and this section doesn't disappoint you either.
It can take a few attempts to time your racing line correctly on this party but it rewards you well when you do it right. After going on the road from the grass, you need to hug the corner as close to the wall as possible while gently drifting to avoid crashing into the wall head on then you need to do a good drift as you approach the downwards corner to the full speed corners to complete the jump without any problems.

After you've done the hair raising jump which gives you the illusion that you could crash into the wall. But thankfully you always land just before doing so and you need to drift to the right which takes you to a lovely little drop downwards to a road leading to the last section shown on the picture here.
This section is a tough cookie yet it still flows well as most of it is virtually full speed apart from the first and last corner of this section.
Possibly the only fault with this entire track which lies in this last section is the very sharp slalom drift corner leading to the finish line as it is slightly out of line with the rest of the track's brilliant flow. Nonetheless it is still a good corner to separate the great players from the rest as it could save you half a second if you take that corner well.

If i could sum up the track in one word, it would be "Breath-taking". Oh dear, is that two words?
Amazing how the track builder managed to keep the brilliant flow going throughout the track despite the few hard corners and that drop it has.

I have absolutely no qualms about awarding this track a great 9/10 and CheZz can be proud to receive an award from me. Congratulations!

Here is a video of my best attempt on the track, even though i was well off the pace it should give you an idea of how to drive this track well.