Polytrack: Build Tracks & Race Time Trials Online

Draft the perfect line before the lights go out

Polytrack is a precision time-trial playground built for players who love shaving milliseconds. Instead of waiting for the ideal circuit, you create it. A clean, modular editor lets you snap together loops, banks, jumps, and chicanes in minutes. Then the stopwatch starts, and Polytrack reveals its core loop: test, reset, refine, repeat. The magic is how quickly you go from an idea in the editor to a lap time worth chasing. Because Polytrack loads instantly and restarts without friction, you spend your time on what matters—finding flow.

A builder that fuels experimentation

Polytrack gives you drag-and-drop building blocks that feel like digital track toys. You can rough in a layout, drive it, notice where speed bleeds, and jump right back to nudge a banking angle or move a checkpoint. That immediacy invites playful iteration. A slightly tighter radius here, a longer exit ramp there—Polytrack rewards these micro-tweaks with measurable gains, and you’ll feel them as the ghost car fades behind.

Because Polytrack’s pieces snap cleanly and preview in place, you never fight your tools. You’re free to design a high-speed oval with forgiving cambers or a technical, low-grip labyrinth full of switchbacks. The editor stays out of the way so your ideas can turn into asphalt fast.

Driving that’s simple to learn and deep to master

Polytrack keeps controls approachable—WASD, arrows, or gamepad—yet it bakes in nuance where it counts. The car communicates weight transfer, so you’ll feel when to brake in a straight line, trail off as you turn, and roll back onto throttle. Polytrack rewards carrying momentum and placing the car early; many laps are decided before the apex because your entry speed sets the entire corner’s rhythm. When you nail it, the lap clicks like a metronome.

The sensation isn’t sim-heavy, but Polytrack offers enough fidelity to make technique matter. You’ll learn to square slow corners for clean exits, float over crests without unsettling the rear, and treat banked sections as slingshots. The result is that every adjustment you make—both in the editor and behind the wheel—produces tangible time saved.

Ghosts that teach by racing beside you

Polytrack’s ghost system is a built-in coach. Load your personal best and study where you’re losing tenths: an early brake marker, a hesitant turn-in, a throttle lift you didn’t need. Or pull in a leaderboard ghost and watch how a faster racer strings sections together. Polytrack turns these comparisons into a friendly duel; you’re never alone on track, and the lesson unfolds at full speed.

Because the ghost is always visible, you can anchor your rhythm to it—brake when it brakes, aim for its line, then try to edge ahead by releasing a fraction earlier or opening the wheel a touch sooner. Polytrack is at its best when you beat the ghost by inches at the line and immediately hit restart to see if you can stretch that lead.

Instant restarts keep you in the zone

Hot-lapping lives and dies on flow, and Polytrack protects flow with instant resets. A single keypress snaps you to the last checkpoint or the start, so a bobble never becomes a momentum killer. Polytrack respects your time; if a lap won’t be a PB, reset and try again. That fast feedback loop is addictive in the healthiest way because every attempt teaches something small and useful.

Share tracks and spark friendly rivalries

Creation only gets better when it’s social. Publish a course, send it to friends, and watch how different driving styles solve your puzzle. Polytrack makes it easy to iterate on community tracks, too—tune a troublesome jump, smooth a nasty camber change, or add a mid-lap checkpoint to reduce restart pain. In turn, you’ll discover builders whose designs fit your strengths, and Polytrack becomes a curated playlist of challenges that keep skills sharp.

Practical tips for faster laps

Build with intent. In Polytrack, start with a strong first corner that sets lap tone, then give the driver places to breathe before complex sequences. On the driving side, commit to reference points: a billboard, a tree, a seam in the tarmac. Polytrack rewards consistency, so fix your markers and adjust by tiny increments. When chasing a ghost, don’t mirror mistakes—if it slides mid-corner, change your line instead of repeating the drama. Polytrack’s banking can hide speed; lean on it to extend throttle time, and keep steering inputs smooth to avoid scrubbing.

If you’re struggling to link a section, hop back into the editor and ask what the layout wants from the car. Polytrack treats design and driving as one craft. Maybe the exit needs another meter of runoff, or the approach wants a wider setup. Those micro changes often unlock seconds.

Why this time-trial loop feels special

Plenty of racers offer time trials, but Polytrack blends creation, coaching, and iteration so elegantly that the grind never feels like a grind. Every lap is a conversation between your last attempt and your next idea. Polytrack’s clarity—fast loads, clean UI, readable ghosts—means no friction sits between you and improvement. Five spare minutes can become a meaningful practice session, and an evening can evaporate in the pursuit of a perfect sequence of inputs.

Quick start checklist

1) Open the editor and lay down a simple out-and-back to feel speed. 2) Add a banked sweeper into a tight hairpin to practice brake release. 3) Place checkpoints before tricky combos so Polytrack’s reset keeps you focused. 4) Run five laps, save your best, then load the ghost. 5) Tweak one corner in the editor and chase the new delta. In Polytrack, small cycles compound; progress is steady because each loop is short and informative.

Accessible, elegant, and endlessly replayable

Because it runs in the browser, Polytrack is stress-free to launch and easy to share. It’s approachable for newcomers—the first layout and lap take minutes—yet it holds the attention of veterans who crave tight feedback. Polytrack encourages craftsmanship. Builders craft better flow; drivers craft cleaner lines. Over time, your catalog of tracks becomes a record of your taste, and your PBs become a record of your growth. Few racers make improvement feel this tangible.

When you’re ready to test a new idea, Polytrack is ready in a click. Sketch a section, drive it, learn, refine, repeat. The stopwatch never lies, the ghost never judges, and the restart is always instant. That’s why Polytrack sticks: it turns practice into play and design into speed, all in one clean loop.