Super Stock 500:Full Grid

Thirty seconds on the clock and forty cars in front of you: draft the pack, dive to the inside and reach the next checkpoint before time runs out.

Super Stock 500 is an original arcade stock-car racer with a 90s arcade heart and a modern physics engine. The cars sit on real springs and dampers, tyres lose grip as weight shifts across them, and you can draft the car ahead for a slingshot pass. The damage is real: bodywork crumples where it is hit, the hood folds over the windscreen before the wind rips it off, tyres get cut, toe links bend and wrecked engines catch fire.

FREE TO PLAY, AND THE FREE GAME IS COMPLETE
Three tracks: Sunshine Speedway, a banked tri-oval with forty cars; Red Canyon Raceway, a road course through desert mesas and a rock tunnel; and Harbor Lights, a dusk street circuit with a bridge and a pier-side chicane. Race by day, at dusk or under the lights, in the dry or in the rain, from five camera views including a full cockpit. Five cars to unlock by earning XP. Quick Race puts you on the grid in one click, Arcade is a race against the clock, and Championship is three full-distance rounds. A garage lets you pick a preset livery for every car, a short tip screen helps your first race, and your results show how much you improved. Progress saves in your browser.

THE FULL GRID PACK (one purchase, $3.99)
3 new tracks: Lantern Hill Bullring, a tight banked short track under the floodlights; Silverplain Superspeedway, a 4.3 km tri-oval built for pack drafting; and Ember Pass, an autumn mountain road course with two switchback hairpins.
3 new cars: Riptide #36, Kestrel #64 and Monarch #19, each with four liveries, its own paint pattern and its own wing, splitter and wheels. They add variety, not power: none of them beats the free cars at everything.

• Season: eight rounds across all six tracks with standings, your own car and livery, and a bonus when you finish.
• Time Trial: race alone against a ghost of your best lap, with a live gap on the screen.
  You can try everything else first. Nothing in the free game is taken away or locked behind the pack, and the pack is never offered during a race.

CONTROLS
Keyboard: Arrows or WASD to drive, Space for the handbrake, C (or 1 to 5) to change camera, Q/E to shift with the manual box, R for the wipers, Esc to pause, M for music. Gamepad supported. Phone or tablet: tilt to steer or use the slide pad, in landscape.

REQUIREMENTS
A desktop or laptop browser with WebGL 2 (current Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari) is best. Phones and tablets work in landscape. No account is needed to play the free game; the pack is bought through Wavedash.

Made by Kayode Fashola (kfmedia) with the help of AI.