Dash Panel

Boost Pads (also called Dash Panels) are special zones that appear in the Mario Kart Series. The appearance of these items have changed through out the games history from flashing rainbow Panels to green panels to just plain Yellow and red pads. Boost Pads are used to increase speed of the Karts, specially essential to use in great obstacles as big jumps and slopes.

Mario Kart 64
Boost pads appear in almost every level and appear as yellow and red pads.

Mario Kart Super Circuit
Boost Pads make another come back as yellow and red pads that like always speed the gang up. They appear in most of the levels.

Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Boost Pads appear as flashing rainbow pads in this game but only on a few courses.

Mario Kart DS
They appear as flashing Rainbow Pads again in a few courses.

The Future
Boost Pads are supposed to appear it he the upcoming Mario Kart Wii game.

Other Appearances

 * Dash Panels appear in other racing video-games like Diddy Kong Racing. They are also known as Zippers.