Its a tether car, not an RC car. Basically the car has a tether wire attached to it that you hook to the poll. This forces the car to go around in circles. Just slightly less painful to watch than watching grass grow while getting a root canal on a tar roof in July. Basically, there's no control, no throttle, nothing. You just pray that the car is geared so tall that it accelerates slow enough for you to jump out of the way of that steel tether whipping around you