^ ur not lagging pal , u are spiking and losing packets it seems, im not sure but when i used to play there were very few times when this used to happen , but most of the servers worked like feather , try other servers , if this is the case on all servers then ur isp must be playing foul i guess, yeh this game is all about practise and giving time ,basically this is a 'track' game , a noob who knows the track very well might beat a very good player who doesn't know it too well , so i guess u shuld stick with the servers u play on for a while so that u get well familiarized with the tracks and can own on them some day
, as for ranks in a race make sure u beat players above in the ladder or you wont get any points by beating players below you, i recommend u jamlan- the german server , it hosts all of tmn's native maps so the tracks aren't that bit difficult , afaicr 'c' used to pull down the console , and regarding the game make sure u keep on emptying the cache folder periodically as it'l store all the junk , avatars and crap of players u meet online , later
