I've been racing about 3 years now and have won several "B" mains but my best is coming in 2nd in the "A" on consecutive weekends.
Two things that helped me get better was calming the hell down and having a motor that was so tired i couldn't go fast, so i ran a really smooth race. I've had power before and it doesn't help me at all.
Slow is fast.
I've seen some local pro's that go fast and they tend to mess up when they push the car too much.
At the 1st PNB the winner of Truggy was the only one rolling the jumps while everyone else got big air and crashed on landing.
Slow is fast