Drift Racing Free online game

What is it?

Drift Racing is a top-down race around a track against three AI cars. The view turns to follow your car from behind, so you can drive just by pressing the left and right sides of the screen.

Drifting is the heart of this game. There's a real thrill in sliding through a corner and shooting forward with the power you built up, and the better you drift, the faster your times get.

Your record is how fast you finish the set number of laps, and from Easy to Hard the road gets narrower and the corners get tighter.

To race against friends, join an online room where two to four players can drive together. The host picks one of seven tracks and AI cars fill any empty spots. Playing solo, you can also take free runs on the City Nights, Desert Canyon, Snowfield and Beach tracks, and switching the view to first person puts you in the driver's seat.

How to play

1. Press the left or right side of the screen to steer · you accelerate automatically · press both sides to brake (PC: ← → · ↓)
2. At speed, hold one side to drift · let go to boost (the longer the slide, the stronger the boost)
3. 3 laps as fast as you can · grass slows you down and yellow arrow pads give a boost

Playing on PC (keyboard · mouse)

On phones you tap the screen; on PC you can also use the mouse and the keys below.

Difficulty and rankings

There's a weekly ranking and an all-time ranking; the weekly one resets every Monday at midnight (Korea time). For details, see the Help.

Good to know on Hanpanmadang

• The race ends after 3 laps. You start when the lights turn from red to green, and your finishing time is your record. Any finishing position still counts as a record.
• At speed, holding one side for more than 0.28s starts a drift. If the gauge at the bottom reaches yellow, letting go gives a 0.55s boost; if it reaches red, a 0.95s boost.
• Driving over a yellow arrow pad gives a 0.7s boost. On grass your top speed drops to 50%, and beyond the grass is a tire wall.
• On a phone, press the left or right side of the screen to steer and press both sides to brake. On PC, steer with ← → or A · D and brake with ↓ or S.
• Each level has its own track: Park Loop on Easy, Harbor Circuit on Normal and Ridge Course on Hard, with separate records and rankings for each.
• If you don't finish within 4 minutes, the race ends without a record.

Common mistakes

Just steering through corners.

If you only steer, the car drifts wide onto the grass. At speed, hold to drift through the turn, then let go as you exit the corner to get a boost.

Ending drifts too early.

Let go before the sparks appear and it's no different from a normal turn. Hold on a little longer and the car will shoot forward.

Driving the wrong way after a crash.

If the screen says Wrong way, turn the car around. Distance driven backwards is taken off your lap count.

Tips

• Start turning a little before the corner and keep the drift going. The longer you slide, the more the sparks change from yellow to red and the longer the boost.
• On grass your top speed is cut in half. In a tight corner, tapping both sides to brake briefly is faster than running onto the grass.
• Arrow pads sit in fixed spots on each track. Learn where they are on the first lap and you can line up for them from the next lap on.
• Bumping into AI cars pushes both of you away. Rather than tailgating, slip past on the inside of a corner.