Summary
- GTA Online offers a variety of challenging races, including bike races, off-road races, air races, and sea races, to keep players engaged and entertained.
- Races like Troubled Waters, Mudslide, In The Wings, Perm-A-Wood, Cult Following, and Free Fall provide unique and exciting tracks, locations, and challenges for players to conquer.
- Players can choose different vehicles, such as motorcycles, bikes, off-road cars, and boats, to participate in the races and can use their skills, customization options, and strategic moves to aim for victory.
Grand Theft Auto: Online has earned a spot as a fan-favorite online platform for a decade. In GTA Online, players can compete in races, sign up for side missions, maintain several properties, and acquire thousands of millions of dollars in cash, credit, and other vices in the fictional Los Santos.
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GTA Online offers players the unique opportunity to craft their own deathmatches and vehicle races. Rockstar Games has cleverly installed a plethora of supremely challenging races throughout the online realm to keep players engaged and motivated to win big.
8 Troubled Waters
- Race Type: Bike Race
- Length: 2.22 miles
- Player(s): 1-8
In conjunction with the iconic Diamond Casino and Resort installment in GTA Online, Troubled Waters is a landrace open to all archetypes of criminals, murderers, vandals, and foes. The motorcycle race lets players soar through at least 8 different locations throughout Los Santos. This lap race includes an overwhelming 29 checkpoints starting in La Mesa at the Vespucci Boulevard Bridge, continuing across freeways and downtown corners of the city, making it a quick-witted challenge for players.
Troubled Waters is the perfect nighttime race that allows fans to show off customized motorcycles and bikes with dangerous updates. Vehicles like the Tron Legacy-inspired Shotaro allow for heavy armor updates and run at 99.11 mph at top speed are just one of the dozens of motorcycles one might experience on the road during this race.
7 Mudslide
- Race Type: Off-Road Land Race
- Length: 2.39 miles
- Player(s): 1-8
For late-night gamers looking for a race attuned to the tone of wayfaring strangers, the Mudslide race, starting in the dusty back ends of Vinewood Hills, fits the mold. This landrace pushes off-road vehicles to follow a disjointed winding path that presses deeper into the Baytree Canyon. Cars like the $340,000 Canis Kamcho make a huge asset to races such as Mudslide.
Steep terrain, dusty pathways, rocky ledges, and cliffs accompany this rowdy racing experience. Up to seven other players can join this adventure, providing intensive rough-housing with other off-road vehicle models, such as the Sasquatch Arena.
6 In The Wings
- Race Type: Air Lap Race
- Length: 7.45 miles
- Player(s): 1-30
GTA Online constantly gives new meaning to the imagination, as seen with the In the Wings race. The distinct air race is a madhouse of fun for well up to 30 players in one session. Showcasing a range of technical skills while fending off other frenzied and loony pilots online is central to the task in this race. Running almost 8 miles long, In The Wings, is an equal parts air show as much as it is a chaotic scene of planes, jets, choppers, and other uniquely armored aircraft fighting and racing through the airspace across Los Santos.
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In The Wings is an event only available on XboxOne and PS4 consoles. The key to mastery of this challenging air race is to skim through as many checkpoints as possible to cut down on time wasted at each point. Players can get innovative with spins, flips, and dives to achieve this goal.
5 Power Trip
- Race Type: Bike Race
- Length: 2.53 miles
- Player(s): 1-16
The Power Trip land race follows dirt paths from RON Alternates Wind Farms to the Land Act Dam. This motorcycle race allows up to 16 players and earns users a Rank 1. The quick point-to-point turns on marked, and off-road sections will be exhilarating for any dirt bike fan to playthrough. Surrounded by massive wind turbines near a bustling expressway adds pressure to a player's game during this race.
Located in the San Chianski Mountain Range and a hotspot for story mode events involving the crazed drug venture Trevor, the Power Trip dirt bike race takes place on a hub of craggy land surrounded by desert while allowing for more obscured trades and transactions to occur away from other inner city crews.
4 Truss Issues
- Race Type: Sea Lap Race
- Length: 0.95 miles
- Player(s): 1-8
Compared to the veracity and limitlessness of the ocean, the tight and narrow sea race Truss Issues takes place near the ironclad inner city harbor Banning. This sea race dares participants to go up against online Seasharks. There are a handful of water ramps that make for sharp escapes and crosses as the race ensues through Cypress Flats and Elysian Island.
Truss Issues put a target on players' backs, especially if the boat used during the race is low on speed and quality. In GTA Online, players often go below the belt with weaponry usage, making it tough to cross the finish line. However, in the Truss Issues race, stirring clear of the pack, swooping in pathways of open water to create diversions, and utilizing water ramps above and under railways work in players' favor.
3 Morning Perm-A-Wood
- Race Type: Land Race(Compact Motorcycle)
- Length: 1.10 miles
- Player(s): 1-8
In a movie-intensive flare, the Morning Perm- a- Wood landrace in GTA Online borders the Hollywood-inspired movie studios and posh community of Rockford Hills in Los Santos. Allowing up to 8 racers and unlocked at a rank 15, Morning Perm-a-Wood uses back alleyways and slender winding roads uphill and downhill to disorient racers while causing a riot in the uptight business neighborhood and accompanying downtown strip in its circuit.
Participants can use bikes, motorcycles, or compact cars to transverse the area, with motorcycles and bikes being the most optimal choice of vehicle. Racers can pick up boosts along the way and, depending on the top speed of a player's vehicle, can drastically advance or hinder success in championing the race.
2 Cult Following
- Race Type: Bike Race
- Length: 1.19 miles
- Player(s): 1-8
The eerie Altruist Camp lies at the heart of the Cult Following race. Although in story mode, this creepy rundown landscape has little to offer, in GTA Online, Cult Following plays to the unhinged dangers of cultists, as evident in the mission Pickup Sticks. Found deep in the Chiliad Mountain State Wilderness, participants must narrowly evade the brigade of Altruists and any other equally deranged players and whatever artillery they may pack.
At rank 25, with up to eight other players, Cult Following is one of GTA Online's most unsettling, arduous bike races. Expect to cruise through undefined tunnels, barely avoid unseen cliffs, and cascade into Ranton Canyon, through to the Alamo Sea. This race was made for hardcore racers who enjoy treacherous endeavors.
1 Free Fall
- Race Type: Bike Race
- Length: 2.50 miles
- Player(s): 1-8
Free Fall follows a 2.50-mile circuit through Vinewood Hills and Harmony in Los Santos. The land lap race unlocks at rank 18, with fans flowing through Blaine County on main and off-section roads, increasing the opportunity to be tailed by undercover cops in the area. Dirt bikes are preferred for this course to get through the sleepy desert town with ease and max speed.
It's optimal to use bikes and motorcycles with top speeds of 90+ and are lightweight. Stealth, wit, and split-second decision-making all come in clutch as players ride into ultra jumps across small valleys and between mountainsides.
Grand Theft Auto Online
- Released
- October 1, 2013
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- Rockstar North
- Platform(s)
- PS5, PS4, PS3, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC
- Genre(s)
- Open-World, Action
