As you can see, drags are very simillar to Underground 2.
You have to manually change gears (keybinds you can adjust in settings menu, by default it is plus and minus on numpad). To get the best performance, there're few phases when you can change your gear:

• Over Rev - too late, you are losing some power.
• Perfect Shift - the best moment to get much power.
• Good Shift - also good moment, but noy as good as Perfect Shift.
• Short Shift - too short, the worst moment, better wait for at least Good Shift.

But dont forget to change gear, otherwise you'll blown your engine


Very important thing is that in drag races you can't turn! Instead of this, you're changing lane and your car will turn automatically and stay on lane. You have to press turn button only once to change lane.

Because of weird nitro handling, if you have very fast car, we don't suggest to use nitro while changing lane.