Four games, one account

Pick a track, laps and a car

Choose 1, 3 or 5 laps, or Endless to keep going until you stop. Your laps run back to back: the line that ends one starts the next.

Race your ghost

A see-through ghost drives your best lap next to you. You can also pick Record to chase the fastest lap on the board, or click any driver on the leaderboard to race their ghost.

Checkpoints and splits

Each lap has checkpoints. At each one you see whether you're ahead (−) or behind (+) your best. Cut the track and it doesn't count.

The leaderboard

Every track has a leaderboard for each car class, because a Formula car and a Rally car aren't a fair fight (and for each gearbox: automatic and manual have their own). Logged-in drivers' best laps go on the board, and the game checks every lap for shortcuts and impossible speeds. As a guest you can still drive and see your times, but they aren't saved.

Changing a track's shape or a car class's stats resets that board, so times are always comparable.

The cars got new physics on 28 October 2026, and the boards started again from zero. The times from before are kept: switch the leaderboard to Old physics to see them and watch those laps.

⚙️ Manual gearbox

Settings → Game → Gearbox: Manual and you shift the 6 gears yourself. Each gear pulls hardest in its own part of the speed range: in too high a gear the car bogs down (a quarter of the pull from a standstill in 6th), and at the top of a gear it hits the rev limiter and stops pulling. The gear and a rev bar (yellow: time to shift, red: the limiter) sit next to the speedometer. Shifted well it's exactly as fast as automatic. Manual laps go on their own leaderboards: switch the board between Automatic and Manual. In a lobby the host picks the gearbox: drivers choose, automatic only or manual only (an M next to a name means manual).

🎮 Controllers and wheels

A controller works in every menu: the D-pad or stick moves the highlight, A presses, B goes back, LB / RB switch tabs, Start drives; left / right change a slider or a choice.

A steering wheel and pedals (Logitech, Thrustmaster, Fanatec, Moza…): Settings → Wheel → Set up a wheel. Turn the wheel each way, press each pedal, the paddles, and an H-shifter's gears if you have one; then set the rotation, how much of it is full lock, deadzones and pedal curves. With a clutch pedal you can make the gearbox need it. The setup is saved on your account. (Browsers can't do force feedback.)

Boost

Taking corners at the limit, so the tyres squeal, or sliding with the handbrake fills the boost meter. Press E to spend it on a straight. Boost on top of top speed is how the fastest laps are done.

Grip, slides and downforce

The tyres have a limit. Go past it and the car slides. The rear steps out when you yank the handbrake, lift off the throttle suddenly mid-corner, brake hard while turning, or (in a rear-wheel-drive car) floor it out of a slow corner. Catch it with opposite lock and ease the throttle. Each car drives differently: the Muscle car is tail-happy, the Rally and Hyper cars are four-wheel drive, the Fiat pushes wide when you accelerate. Fast cars with wings (Formula, F1, Le Mans, Hyper) have downforce: the faster they go, the more grip and braking they get, so fast corners take more nerve than skill.

Assists

Settings → Game has three: traction control (no wheelspin), ABS (without it the wheels lock under hard braking and the car won't turn), and steering assist (keeps the car from turning past the grip). Each is Auto (on with keyboard, phone and controller, off with a wheel), On or Off. Off is a little faster in the right hands; the leaderboard doesn't care which you use.

Crests and jumps

Over a crest the car goes light: less grip and less braking until it settles. Take a sharp crest fast enough and the car leaves the ground. A hard landing bounces the car. Hit a barrier at an angle at speed and the car spins.

Grass and kerbs

Kerbs count as road. Grass slows you right down (how much depends on the car: the Rally car hardly minds). Barriers line every track: a glancing hit keeps most of your speed, while a head-on one costs a lot.

Damage

Hard hits dent the car and parts fly off. A car past its toughness is wrecked: it stops, waits and goes back to the last checkpoint. The time you lose is the penalty. A damaged car is a little slower. In time trials you can choose instead to start the lap again (Settings → Game → After a wreck): the car goes 150 m before the line, the wrecked lap doesn't count, and you cross the line already moving.

Tyres

Pick soft (red: +8% grip, +2% top speed, but they last only about half as long), medium (yellow: the all-rounder) or hard (white: 7% less grip and a touch slower, but they last 75% longer) on the menu or in a lobby. In multiplayer races with pit stops on they wear (never in solo time trials): worn tyres grip up to a third less, and at 0% your top speed is halved. Stop in a pit box for fresh ones, and press 1, 2 or 3 during the stop to change compound. The leaderboard shows which tyres every lap was set on.

🚀 Jumps and the bypass

Some tracks have a jump: a gap where the bridge is gone. Signs and a warning on screen tell you the speed it takes (on Broken Bridge, a city freeway at night, 200 km/h over an 84 m gap). Hit the ramp fast enough and you fly across; go faster and you fly further, so the landing deck is long. Too slow and you drop onto the street below: the car takes damage and carries on along the bypass. Where the track itself passes under a jump (like on Double Drop) you can drop onto it on purpose and drive that part again; landing on a part of the lap that's still to come wrecks the car, so there are no shortcuts. Canyon Leaps has ten jumps in a row on a desert viaduct, from 116 to 216 km/h (the last one takes a boost in a Sport car); the road underneath is the bypass and catches anyone who falls short. Five Crossings winds through a tight infield (hairpins, a chicane, esses), then climbs onto a deck that crosses back over those roads five times, every crossing a broken bridge (121–170 km/h): fall short and you're back on the infield below to drive it again. If your car can't reach the speed (or you'd rather not risk it), take the bypass before the jump: it's longer and slower. In the track editor, the Jump gap and Bypass tools build your own.

Standing or flying start

The first lap starts from standstill behind the line. Every lap after that is a flying lap, so in 3, 5 or Endless your later laps are usually the quick ones.

Lobbies

1. Press Create lobby: you get a 5-letter code and an invite link.
2. Friends type the code (or open the link) and press Join. Up to 8 drivers.
3. The host picks the track, the laps and whether cars collide, then starts the race.
4. A countdown, a race, the results, and back to the lobby for the next one.

Good to know

• After the winner finishes, the others get 45 seconds to finish too.
• Tyres: everyone picks their own compound in the lobby; the standings show what each car is on, and a pit stop can change it.
• Pit stops (host setting, from 3 laps, on tracks with a pit lane: Spa, the Nordschleife, Gilles-Villeneuve, the Red Bull Ring): your tyres wear and grip less. Drive into the pit lane (80 km/h limiter) and stop in the yellow boxes: 5 s for repairs, fresh tyres and a full boost. "Mandatory" means at least one stop, or 30 s is added to your time.
• With collisions on, cars bump each other. Everyone only pushes their own car, so it's fair whatever the lag.
• Lap times from a lobby race go on the leaderboard as well.
• Your colour in a lobby is your car's paint.

💬 Lobby chat

Every lobby has its own chat: in the lobby, on the results screen, and over the race while you drive or watch (new lines show for a few seconds). Press Enter to type (or / for a command), Enter to send and Esc to go back to driving; on a phone, tap 💬. While you type, the car doesn't steer.

• Log in to chat; guests can read along.
• The same rules as in Box Arena: a word filter, slow mode, and mutes that count in both games.
• /report <name> <what happened> sends a report to the moderators.
• Moderators can mute, kick (out of that lobby for 10 minutes), clear the chat (/clear, or /clear 10 for the last 10 messages), switch the track, end or restart the race, and send announcements to every lobby.

🚩 Race control

The host chooses what race control may use (the 🚩 Race control box in the lobby), and race control calls it when cars crash or stop on the track. The host can also call it from the race menu (Esc).

• Yellow flag: an incident ahead. Slow down and don't overtake.
• Blue flag: a car a lap ahead is right behind you. Let it through.
• Virtual safety car: everyone drives at 60% pace.
• Safety car: a yellow car leads the field at about 86 km/h. Nobody passes it, and "safety car in this lap" means racing starts again soon.
• Red flag: the race stops where everyone is. It restarts behind the safety car (rolling) or on five red lights (standing), as the host chose.
• No overtaking under flags or the safety car: give the place back within 10 s, or get +5 s on your time.
• Causing a crash (driving into someone so they're wrecked): +10 s, the third time the black flag. With 💥 Wreck = out on, a wrecked car is out of the race.
• Worn-out tyres (0%): half top speed until you pit.

Every flag, what causes it and what it does, with simulators to try it out.

Or switch on 🚫 No rules in the lobby: then there are no flags, no safety cars, no black flags and no time penalties at all (a mandatory pit stop isn't forced either), so standing still and driving backwards are fine.

🏴 The black flag

Standing still on the track or driving the wrong way gets a warning with a few seconds to fix it. A second warning, and then the black flag: you're out of that race (DNF), and the server keeps it that way until the next race. It doesn't count at the start, in the pit lane, while loading, under a red flag or behind the safety car, or after you've finished. A warning is forgotten after a long spell of clean driving.

💥 Arcade combat

A lobby mode (Mode: Arcade combat) for a fight instead of a race. Every car has 100 HP, a gun (hold F: it hits the car ahead of you, 6 damage) and a shield (X: blocks everything for 3 s, then 15 s to recharge). Drive through the blue boxes on the track to pick up one item, used with G:

• 🚀 Homing missile: locks on to the car ahead, 28 damage. A shield stops it.
• 💣 Mines: three behind you, 18 damage each. Drive round them.
• ⚡ EMP: 10 damage to everyone within 40 m, and no weapons or boost for 3.5 s.
• 🛢️ Oil slick: whoever drives through it slides.
• 🔧 Repair kit: +30 HP. A pit stop repairs 50.
• 🔥 Nitro: a full boost and 3 s of extra push.

The leaders mostly get things to defend with, the ones at the back things to catch up with. At 0 HP you're out of that race. Weapons are off in the pit lane, under the safety car and the VSC, and in the first 3 s. They never exist in a normal race.

🏆 Tournaments

Pick 2 to 8 races at Tournament in the lobby. Each race is on a different random track (never the same one twice), with the lobby's number of laps. Points per race are 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4; a DNF scores nothing. Ties go to the driver with more wins, then the better finishes. The table shows after every race, and the next one starts by itself after a minute (or when the host starts it). Works in combat mode too.

There are also ready-made tournaments in the same list: a fixed series of tracks with their own laps, set up by the admins, that also decide the car, gearbox, pit stops, mode and rules (and sometimes their own points) for the whole series.

🚗 Same car for everyone

The host can set Car in the lobby to one class: everyone races that car (with their own paint and tyres), so it's down to the driving. Back in the lobby you have your own car again. Party mode rolls its own random class instead.

🔒 Logged-in drivers only

A logged-in host can switch on Logged-in drivers only in the lobby: guests can't join or watch it any more (the ones already in can stay). Handy for a private race with people from the leaderboard.