Vancouver 2010

Bit of luck required here and plenty of perserverence! Lane 1 is the best for obvious reasons. Get a high start 90+ if you can get the timing down,Roughly 7secs from ready, and keep the tightest line possible around the course getting Green steps each time on the straights,When turning get your skates as close to the black markers as possible,your hands can cross over without any penalty in speed. I lapped the computer on the last corner of last lap,Its a close one but definately possible.Hope this helps

This is by far the hardest achievement in the game. First of all you have to get a good jump, which means guessing. There's really no warning as to when the gun will go off, you just have to take a shot. There's no penalty for going early, you just have to start over. Also if you're not on the inside, don't even bother, I don't think it can be done.

So get off the line with a 90 plus, and mash the a button super fast. You have to play the first turn really well, so ideally you only hold down the trigger once, and let go once, (that means starting your turn a little later than you think, which also lets you mash the a button a little longer). Once turn one is done you should be significantly ahead of the pack. I hold left on the left stick the entire race, which, if this achievement takes you as long as it took me, will be exhausting. This way if your turn is too wide, you steer back to the inside on the straight away and cut down distance. It also helps on cornering.

From there you just have to hit basically all green footsteps. When I got it, I think I got one red and one yellow, but they were late in the event. Sometimes it's tough to tell if the first step will count out of a corner, but just try to hit them all even when they don't count to be safe. Some straight-aways give you 4 steps, others you can squeeze in a 5th. It's rare that you have to take 5 steps, but the 5th helps make up for a red or yellow step. If your meter is already full, I don't think it adds speed. Corners must be sharp, but if you cut it too close and cross the line, you'll be penalized with a slowdown, and it's over.

The race counts backwards from 15 laps, but you only have until the end of lap 5 to lap the last place skater. As soon as you pull ahead, the event ends.

In addition to the solutions above here`s a video showing you how its done. All credit goes to: 3Z3K13L08 for this video.
Hope this helps good luck.

TL;DR
1. Use a stopwatch (5secs from cutscene skip) to judge when to start.
2. Use a turbo for the start. (Unturbo as soon as you turn the first corner)
3. Switch to first person to make hitting greens easier.
4. Feather the turns, and stay as close to the inside of the ring as possible without touching it.




Here's how I did it... You're gonna need a turbo controller.

First things first as soon as you load up the challenge start it up and tap the "B" button until you get into first person mode. Once their it'll automatically switch their for every attempt. So restart once you get into first person mode.

Secondly, get a stopwatch app. I used an app called "timer" for the Windows Phone. I'm sure any will work.

Keep restarting the race until your racer is on the very left. This is necessary.

Once you get your guy on the left, you need to turbo the "A" button twice so it is turbo'd without you having to press it.

Start the stopwatch once you skip the cutscene and you see the screen fading in. I usually started it mid-fade. Not too early, and not towards the end of the fade.

After 5 seconds on the stopwatch app let go. That seems to be the exact number. This saves you from guessing as you know when you have to let go.

You should have your turbo controller already pressing the "A" button. As soon as you get around the corner using "LT" turn off the turbo by pressing the turbo button and "A" once. Make sure your not holding LT still as you might turbo that.

At this point, as you've switched to first person mode, the game turns into a quasi-guitarhero game. Tap the "A" buttons as soon as they hit the "Fret board". You need to get mostly greens, and you can get the occasional orange. Id say 5 oranges and your screwed, but honestly, it's really easy to get green so it shouldn't be a worry.

It can be disorienting to get used to first-person turning around the corners. The general gist of it is this, you have to turn as close to the "Dots" on the ground as possible. If you go past the dots your skater will slow to a halt. If you're too far from the dots you won't be gaining speed on the skater you're trying to catch. Feather the turn (let go of LT for a brief moment to get further from the dots) if you have too, you don't want to hit the dots! You want to come out of the turn facing straight, as if you don't your skater will have to realign herself wasting time. Don't over do the straight, as you might accidentally hit the inside of the ring slowing you to a halt.

When it comes to actually overtaking the skater, try to do it from the left side, not the right. I've done this on the PC and Xbox, and the skater seems to know you're coming and moves out of the way to let you pass.

Hopefully this stopwatch, turbo, and first-person combo tip helped!