I've been working on FB for the past few days and tried this out - it isn't worth it in my eyes. The few seconds I take doing that link ball can be the difference between another lap round at the end or not. Plus before you get the ideya you're wasting 100 points a second and once you're in the bonus time the link ball is worth twice as much~ So no, for me this doesn't seem to work nicely at all.
Yep, its better to get 16+ chips as Elliot, then dash through the first lot of chips and straight to the capture, leaving 115 for bonus time.
gsk