GTA3 ... help me get the noodle man

[John1]

Hi BountyWarrior,

You find it easy?
Well i am still finding it too difficult.
I have tried letting them struggle around the first corner,
but it doesn't seem to help me none.
What seems to help a bit is coming up fast from behind and
crashing between two cars on the starting line, that seems
to scatter them a bit, and i can generally stay in the lead
to almost the third checkpoint, but they seem to spin me
off one way or another by then.

I have tried a Diablo Stallion, and a Mafia Sentinel, i also
took one of the race cars to the garage and re-constituted
it, but i don't like it.

I think i am just not very good at the race.
i will keep trying,

John