Slipstream: a free pixel racing manager game
Slipstream is a free pixel-art racing manager game for your browser, with no download. Sign in to save careers online. Pick one of the eleven teams on the 2026 grid, manage both drivers and make the calls that win races from the pit wall. The public beta includes race weekends, cloud saves and game statistics. Commentary voices are optional and still being improved.
Every race is a live strategy puzzle. Choose soft, medium or hard tyres, watch the wear cliff, decide when to box for the undercut or stay out for the overcut, react to rain, safety cars, virtual safety cars and red flags, and manage fuel, battery deployment and driving modes lap by lap.
Between rounds you run the team: spend the development budget on engine, aerodynamics and reliability upgrades, handle driver contracts and chase the drivers’ and constructors’ championships across a full 24-round season with sprint weekends, qualifying and penalties.
If you loved Motorsport Manager or want a lighter, faster alternative to big racing management games, Slipstream is built for quick seasons and big decisions. It is an independent, unofficial fan game with fictional ratings.
Features
- Full race weekends: practice, qualifying, sprints and the grand prix
- Tyre strategy with three dry compounds, intermediates, wets, warm-up, graining and blistering
- Pit stop calls, the undercut and overcut, team orders and an AI race engineer
- Dynamic weather, drying lines, safety cars, VSCs and red flags
- Car development, budgets and contracts in career mode
- Hand-drawn pixel art cars, helmets and 24 circuit maps
- Free, ad-free and playable in any modern browser
Explore the 2026 grid
- All 22 drivers: numbers, teams and biographies
- All 11 teams: line-ups, cars, engines and history
- The 2026 calendar: 24 circuits with track maps and lap records
- Live F1 standings: the real championship tables
- F1 in five minutes: a beginner’s guide to race weekends
- Racing glossary: undercut, DRS, dirty air and more
- Strategy guide: tyres, pit stops and race craft