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You see this right here? You can drive your kart up and explode the cart to get up onto this ledge:
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then corner jump onto the building, onto the invisible red bricks, and down to the finish in under a minute.
You can also explode your kart to easily get up the cliff to the finish on greenhills.
Thanks for bringing these thoughts to light, I'll try to fix these as best I can when I can get to it.