>>545862347
You are correct, it triggers too early. You're gambling on your Late/End moving into 5th place in the Final Corner during the Final Leg so you can carry over the acceleration into the Last Spurt.
The difference is now, we have a plethora of better skills to pick up that the points you dump into Red Shift could be better used on more reliable skills that don't require some positional jank luck to activate. The fact that sloptubers are still recommending it showcases they only know how to copypaste knowledge and aren't considering any of the Nov11 patch changes.