Sillage Racing

Five places close their roads for a morning: a harbour, a pine forest, a red canyon, a mountain pass and an old town after rain. The tyres leave gold paint behind, and the driver who reads their own line best on the second lap takes the cup.

Top-down drift racing: 15 tracks in 5 cups, five rivals, friends online. Every drift paints a gold ribbon you ride next lap for speed.

Your car accelerates on its own. Steer with the Left and Right arrows or A and D, and hold Space or Shift to drift; on a phone use the two arrow pads under your left thumb and the Drift pad under your right. Hold Drift while you steer into a corner: steering further into the slide tightens it, steering against it opens it wide. Let go of Drift to come out; a slide of more than half a second ends with a burst of speed, and the longer the slide, the bigger the burst. Every drift paints a gold ribbon on the road. Drive along your own ribbon, the way it was painted, and the car gains top speed and grip and holds the painted line. Drift again over a stretch you painted on an earlier lap and it goes up a level, up to three. Down or S brakes. Each cup is three races of three laps against five rivals, scored 10, 7, 5, 3, 2 and 1 points; a podium in the cup opens the next cup and a new car. The Fernwood cup adds gravel, Redrock crests you fly off (land straight for a burst) and soft sand, Glacier ice where your ribbon's grip is what holds the line, and Lantern wet cobbles with puddles that only your ribbon crosses without sliding. Your race score counts your drift chains, the metres you ride on your ribbon, the cars you pass and your finishing place.