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All music can be overridden in game by holding one of the VR buttons during the "Gentlemen start your engines" screen. VR1 plays "The King of Speed", VR2 plays "Lets Go Away", VR3 plays "Sky High" and VR4 plays the secret bonus track, "Pounding Pavement". The latter can be accessed in the Saturn game by holding on this screen.

While the game will initially yell at you for doing so, it is fully possible to drive around tracks in reverse. A reverse lap is treated legitimately, and you'll still get time extensions. You can even finish the race while driving in reverse, though you will always be placed in last position.

If you are off-road and stopped, pressing  START  will return you to the track.

Time attack mode can be enabled by holding  START  in the transmission select screen.

By holding VR2, VR3 and VR4 at once, a secret fifth birds eye view is enabled.

Three-Seven Speedway contains strange slot machine banners, which can be manipulated by pressing the  START  button. Getting three 7s will give you seven seconds of extra time, with three BARs giving you an extra five. Three cherries will give you a random amount of extra time. The game only allows you to do this once during a race, though with multiplayer games every user can trigger it.

In Dinosaur Canyon, take the first left from the starting position and persue the road backwards. The road bends to the right and leads to a dead end, where the player will be greeted with a sign that reads "CONGRATULATIONS You Just Lost Your Sponsors!".

Jeffry Mcwild from Virtua Fighter appears as a statue in Sea-Side Street Galaxy. Travel in the wrong direction for more than two laps, and he'll appear upside-down.

If the player comes to a stop nearby and repeatedly presses  START  ( in the Saturn version), Jeffry will breakdance (or at least, spin on the spot and flip upside-down).

High score jingles

Like some of Sega's other games, giving specific initials in the results screen will trigger jingle tracks from previous Sega titles:

NAG	Virtua Racing	MAS	???	GOS	???	MIT	???
ARI	???	YAS	Virtua Racing	DEK	???	OSA	???
GOM	???	D.K	???	MAC	???	KAG	???
MIY	???	KEN	???	H.O	Hang-On	S.H	Space Harrier
O.R	OutRun	A.B	After Burner	P.D	Power Drift	V.R	Virtua Racing
V.F	Virtua Fighter	SHO	Super Hang-On	SMG	Super Monaco GP	G.F	Galaxy Force
R.M	Rad Mobile	S.C	Stadium Cross	EXN	F1 Exhaust Note	S.F	Strike Fighter
GLC	G-Loc: Air Battle	TOR	Turbo OutRun	ORS	OutRunners	GPR	GP Rider
F.Z	Fantasy Zone	E.R	Enduro Racer	SDI	SDI	QTT	Quartet
VMO	Vermillion	T.B	Thunder Blade

Saturn-exclusive cheats

When using a normal number of laps, holding and selecting a track using enables "karaoke mode", with the lyrics of the music being shown in-game.

Entering the code makes the opponent cars far more faster and aggressive. The mode is depicted by a small "M" in the top-left hand corner of the screen.

The Japanese/PAL versions of the game use kph as a measurement of speed while the US version uses mph. This can be reversed by holding on the second control pad and pressing  START  on the first.

While the horse is unlocked by landing in first place on every track, holding and on the title screen, then pressing  START  will save you the bother. The "automatic" horse is brown, while the "manual" horse is grey and both can travel as fast on grass as they can on tarmac. They also cannot take damage and so can use the pit lanes like normal roads.

While in Saturn mode, holding  START  and selecting a track with allows players to officially race tracks in reverse.