THROTTLE: Slot Car Racing

Lights out, five laps, checkered flag. Race seven rivals and real drivers, beat your own ghost, then watch it back with a TV commentary booth. Every track free.

YOUR FIRST LAP IS WAITING. SQUEEZE.

THROTTLE is real slot car racing on your phone. Your thumb works the throttle. Feel the limit. Squeeze to go. Lift to live.

REMEMBER THE TRIGGER IN YOUR HAND? If you ever knelt beside a slot car table with a controller in your hand, you remember what racing feels like: one trigger, a car that wants to fly off the track, and the half-second where you lift just in time. Now it's in your pocket.

YOU FIND THE LIMIT The slot guides the car, exactly like a real set. You get the throttle, and it reads every movement of your thumb. Carry a hair too much speed into a bend and the car leaves the slot and tumbles off the table. Lift a heartbeat early and you give away a tenth. Find the moment in between, and the lap is yours.

LIGHTS OUT. FIVE LAPS. CHECKERED FLAG. Line up on the grid, watch the lights, and race up to seven rivals over 3, 5 or 10 laps. You lap the backmarkers, the standings update every corner, and the FINAL LAP call comes up fast. Take the flag and see the full classification. Come off and the marshal puts you back in the slot. Or run a time trial against your own ghost, or free practice to learn a new table.

RACE REAL DRIVERS Turn on SHARE MY LAPS and your best lap, your name and your car join other players' races, marked REAL DRIVER. Theirs join yours. Off until you switch it on; switch it off any time.

YOUR FASTEST SELF IS ALREADY ON THE GRID Every best lap you drive becomes a ghost, and it drives exactly the way you did: every squeeze, every lift. Beat it and the ghost gets faster, because now it's you.

A RACE ENGINEER IN YOUR CORNER New to the trigger? Race Engineer Assist paints the track ahead in your own lane: green for full power, pink to ease off, red to brake, and the exact spot to get back on it. It never touches the car; it just shows you where the time is. Switch it off when you're ready, because the records belong to pure racing.

WATCH IT BACK ON TV After the race, watch the replay the way television shows it: chase cams, long lenses from the corners, a low bumper shot and the helicopter view, with a two-person commentary booth calling your race in English, German, Spanish, French or Italian. A different pair every time. They know every corner by name, they notice your car and your paint, and they'll tell you exactly where you braked too late. Then share the clip.

RACE IT LIKE A REAL SET Tap CHANGE LANE and you swap slots at the next crossover. Tracks with a pit lane give you a PIT button, and the car finds its own way in.

SEVEN TABLES, FOURTEEN LAYOUTS A banked speedway oval. An industrial foundry. Riverside esses. A desert mesa with a figure-eight crossover. An iron bridge over the village. A helix dropping into an alpine canyon. A corkscrew above a fjord. Every track runs in reverse too, and every one of them is free.

RACE IN SECONDS Open THROTTLE and you're on the grid. No sign-up, no account, no email. Every track is yours from the first lap. Races are short. Stopping at one is the hard part.

THE ONLY UPGRADE IS YOU Every car runs on the same physics. Your lap time is limited by one thing: your skill. When someone beats you, they drove better. When you beat them, you did.

MAKE IT YOURS Twelve cars, from '60s muscle to a Le Mans-style prototype, a wedge supercar, a Japanese tuner, a vintage open-wheeler, a desert raider, an electric hypercar and a die-cast toy grown up and angry. Paint any of them any color, live, and watch the light run across every panel. Choose the livery. Match the wheels. Put your number on the door.

OPEN THE WHOLE GARAGE The Fullbore '68, every track, every mode and every commentator are free, forever. One purchase, Unlock Everything, opens the whole garage: all twelve cars, every livery, every color, every wheel, every skin. Once. That's it. It's all looks; the only thing that makes you faster is another lap.

Play in English, Deutsch, Español, Français or Italiano. Feel the limit. Your first lap is waiting.