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• - Accelerates/speeds up the kart.
• - Brakes/slows down the kart.
• + - Drive backward.
• - Turns kart.
• - Stops the item box/uses the current item.
• - Hop/brake the kart harder.
• & - Access the Extra Tracks/switch back to the Super Circuit tracks.
• - Pause a race.
• - Honks the horn.