The 94th 24 Hours of Le Mans is almost here, with the Circuit de la Sarthe set to come alive on 13 and 14 June.
If you need something to scratch the racing itch before lights out, these three browser games on Poki are worth knowing about.
Grand Prix Hero
This is the most directly F1-flavoured option. Grand Prix Hero puts you in a single-seater and sends you around four real circuits: Monaco, Monza, Silverstone and Suzuka. The car accelerates automatically, so the only controls are steering left and right — which keeps the focus exactly where it should be: reading the track and picking the right line.
You weave through traffic, hit speed boosts and collect coins between the barriers. Those coins fund car upgrades between rounds, giving the game a structure that feels closer to a race weekend than a throwaway arcade run. Load up Monaco and you will immediately recognise the tight left-hander at Sainte-Dévote and the tunnel sequence. It is a small detail, but it lands.
Getting to the top of each grid takes several attempts and some upgrade strategy. That is exactly the point.
PolyTrack
Where Grand Prix Hero gives you the circuits, PolyTrack gives you the discipline. It is a time-trial racer built in the spirit of TrackMania, stripped back to a low-poly aesthetic that keeps the focus entirely on the driving. Thirteen official tracks, each one a puzzle of corners, jumps and technical sections where the difference between a good lap and a great one comes down to a few tenths.
The loop will feel familiar to anyone who follows F1 closely. You run the track, find where you lost time, fix it, run it again. The ghost car feature lets you race your own previous lap as a reference point — precisely how real drivers analyse data between sessions.
There is also a track editor and a community constantly sharing custom layouts online, which means the content never runs dry. It is genuinely hard to get bored once it gets its hooks in.
Super Star Car
The most fully featured of the three. Super Star Car is a 3D Formula 1 career game where you work through a championship structure, earn money from race finishes, and reinvest it into performance upgrades. Multiple camera angles including cockpit view, a proper circuit roster, and an upgrade system that forces you to think about where to put your budget.
It asks more of you than the other two in terms of commitment per session, but for anyone who wants something closer to a full race weekend experience in a browser, this is the one. A good way to get in the mood before Le Mans weekend.
