Hold the gas and steer. Corners push you to the outside, harder the faster you go: lean into them early. Bumping cars costs a little speed (and sends them flying); the verge and the rails cost a lot.

Drive through the nitro rows across the road. Tap SPACE to burn one nitro charge; you can hold three. Nitro in a tight bend will throw you wide.

CIRCUIT: any district, three laps, twenty-four cars strung out along the road, and you are at the back, passing a few at a time. THE RUN: forty-eight cars across the whole city. At each knockout gate everyone below the cut-off is out. Your clock is what counts: finish fast. Every eighth car you pass, and time spent on the wrong side at the road works, gives a nitro charge.

Gamepad works (RT gas, LT brake, B nitro). On a phone the gas is automatic: steer with the two buttons on the left, hold BRAKE and tap NITRO on the right.