Luke's site;
http://www.thisisbracketracing.com/
My tactic's, try for the best light I can, dial close and run it out. If I'm taking too much stripe I tap the brakes on the first line.
Then..I say over and over, "gimme the white ticket, give him the yellow, gimme the white, give him the yellow" as I'm heading for my time slip. LOL!