Apex Grand Prix

Overview

Apex Grand Prix is a top-down racing season across eight procedurally generated circuits, each with its own rhythm of sweepers and tight corners. You race seven AI drivers, and every round opens with a solo qualifying lap that sets your grid slot, followed by a three-lane race where you must reach the podium to advance. The car cruises on its own; your job is throttle, brake and steering discipline. Cornering too fast overwhelms the lateral grip and slides the car wide, bleeding speed and cooking the tires. Worn tires grip noticeably worse, so the pit lane beside the start line — entered at a capped speed — becomes a real strategic lever over a three-lap race. Tuck into a rival's tow to charge the slipstream meter and spend it on a boost. Miss the podium three times in one round and the season ends; podium all eight rounds and you are champion.

How to Play

Click Start Season. Hold Up for full throttle, Down to brake, and steer with Left and Right. Brake before the red-and-white kerbed corners: if the car starts sliding, ease off and straighten the wheel rather than steering harder. Dive into the dashed yellow pit strip when tires run low — two and a half seconds inside restores them to full. Sit behind a rival at speed to fill the slip meter, then tap Space to boost past. Qualifying is one flying lap from a rolling start; keep it on the asphalt and it will still beat half the grid. P pauses, R restarts the season, and on touch devices an on-screen pad mirrors every control including BOOST.

Tips & Strategy

Slow in, fast out is the whole game: every slide costs twice — once in scrubbed speed, once in tire life — so brake earlier than feels necessary and straighten corners by using the full track width. Qualifying matters more than it looks; starting P2 instead of P6 means you spend the race in clean air instead of traffic, which also saves tires. Plan your pit stop for the lap-two start line so the speed cap costs you the main straight only, and never pit on the final lap unless the tires are genuinely gone. Save slipstream boosts for the straight that follows the tightest corner, because that is where AI speed differences are smallest and a pass sticks. In the last three rounds the AI pace rises sharply — beat them in qualifying, because hunting them down through dirty air burns the rubber you will need at the end.