Street Race: Ocean Drive

Tear through the neon-lit streets of Ocean Drive in an illegal midnight street race.

When the sun goes down and the neon comes up, Ocean Drive transforms from a tourist postcard into a quarter-mile of pure adrenaline. Rico, a fast-talking race organizer with a gold tooth and a garage full of turbo-charged imports, runs the most popular illegal street race circuit in Vice City. The Ocean Drive race is a high-speed blast through the art deco strip, weaving between traffic, jumping curbs, and threading needles that would make a stunt driver nervous. The competition is stiff — four other racers who know these streets by muscle memory and aren't above using a PIT maneuver to protect their position. The course winds through Ocean Drive's main strip, cuts through a beachside parking garage, shoots down a back alley, and loops back for a waterfront finish line. Traffic doesn't stop for you, cops will chase anyone they catch, and the road surface goes from asphalt to cobblestone to sand without warning. A $5,000 buy-in keeps the stakes real, and the winner takes the full pot plus bragging rights. Winning also earns you a discount on performance upgrades at local auto shops — because if you're going to race, you might as well race faster.