Drag racing is all about jazzy tuned-up cars, the 'bling' attitude and adrenaline filled races on abandoned highways. Pimp the interior and exterior of your ride and boost your engine to compete with other revamped high powered vehicles. To be someone in drag racing, your ride needs to pack power and show some style.

Drag Racer emulates the tuning spirit. Your objective is to customize and improve your car as much as you can and win your races against all types of vehicles, from a Honda Civic to the Lamborghini Murcielago. Choose your car among more than 20 different constructors and customize it completely from the steering wheel to the seats and exhaust pipes. You can add wings and decals and give it a paint job. Win performance points to improve your ride in different categories like suspension, turbo, engine or ignition.

My favourite games have always been racing games and I remember the days when racing against a friend involved being in the same room and even sometimes using the same keyboard. Nowadays, however, distance is no issue. You can race against buddies in any part of the globe as long as they've got a fairly decent internet connection. The only question is, which game do you choose? There are so many great racing games out there that's it's not easy to choose but these 5 must surely rank as a selection of the best ever made that can also be enjoyed against online opponents:

Need For Speed Carbon - Amazing graphics, blistering circuits and superb gameplay

KartRider - Fun cartoon style karting game that you can play against up to 8 players

Drag Racer - Pimp your car for a super-smashing ride

Drift City - Take to the streets of San Francisco in a world without oil

Street Challenge - Impressive free street racing game with lots of depth and levels

This Saturday sees the start of the new Formula 1 season in Melbourne, promising more high-octane thrills and spills than ever. This year’s competition looks like it might be pretty interesting thanks to a host of new drivers and cars, plus the departure of the win-aholic Michael Schumacher.

If you’re anything like us then once you start watching the race you’ll get the sudden urge to get into a car and drive it very quickly. The trouble is that, unless you want to wave goodbye to your driving licence, this isn’t really possible. However, you can get your fix of adrenaline using your PC by downloading one of the many racing games out there.

Things have come a long way since the days of Out Run on the Sega Master System, with titles such as Need For Speed delivering a realistic driving experience at trouser-wetting speeds. That’s not to say that simple motoring games aren’t still great, as proven by Softonic’s number one, Drag Racer. Here are the most popular games in our Driving Games section:

1. Drag Racer - Pimp your ride then race against other vehicles 2. Rig Racer 2 - Compete against super trucks 3. CrashDay - Drive, fight and compete in this intense racer 4. GTI Racing - Drive 10 generations of VW classics 5. Racer - Cross-platform 3D racing simulator 6. Need For Speed: Most Wanted – Become the most notorious driver 7. TrackMania - Design and race on impossible circuits 8. Championsheep Rally - Have fun with this cute sheep racer 9. Need For Speed Carbon - The most customisable Need For Speed yet 10. TrackMania Nations - Impressive free online racing sim

Here’s a round-up of the best mobile apps we tested on Softonic this week. Check them out now!

UEFA Euro 2012 official app

Europe’s biggest soccer tournament doesn’t kick off until June, but already the official app of the championships is available. The application brings you all the latest news in the build-up to Euro 2012, as well as team profiles, stats and schedule details. You’ll be able to follow matches live during the tournament itself. Note that the Euro 2012 app is only available in Europe at the moment.

iOS, Android, BlackBerry

Sleeping Dogs’ development history is pretty well known. Developed by United Front Games and scheduled for release through Activision, the game was cancelled and brought back to life by Square Enix.

Originally planned as another game in the True Crime series, but now known as Sleeping Dogs, I had a chance to play two levels. The first focused on hand-to-hand combat and the second was to preview of driving.

I admit right now – I want to play this game as soon as possible.

Windows: Take part in racing challenges all over the world with Race Driver: GRID, one of the most realistic driving games you've seen, featuring jaw-dropping graphics and a highly responsive gameplay. This demo includes three different racing events in three locations, and also lets you test the game's multiplayer option.

Mac: Looking from an intuitive download manager which stands out from the rest? Leech supports drag and drop, password protected downloads and lets you mark specific urls for downloading. Also, thanks to the Leech Browser Plug, it automatically manages downloads you come across in your browser.

Pocket PC: If you use mobile storage cards on a regular basis then you may want to give Flash Format a try. The application furnishes you with all manner of details and stats about your memory cards, including physical characteristics (FAT type, sectors, cluster, cylinders, etc.), as well as analysis of file allocations. It's also available for WM Smartphone.

Rev up your engines, the race in Kart n' Crazy is about to start! Download this amazing free online game and compete against players worldwide. Race as fast as you can in the Speed mode or try to kick your competitors off the track in the Arcade mode. Earn experience points and you'll be able to fully customize your kart and become the best kart pilot of all times.

Want to have a bit of fun with your pictures? How about playing around with morphing? Norkross MorphX is a good application to try out this effect. The program is really easy to use: just drag and drop your images, select similar points and let Norkross MorphX do its job. You can save the morph as a picture or even better, as a Quicktime movie.

If, like me, you get lost everytime you go more than six paces from your front door then make sure you install Mobile GMaps on your Blackberry. This free application displays Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps and MSN Virtual Earth maps ion your device. You can even display satellite imagery!