Dash Panel

Boost Pads (also called Dash Panels, Zippers, Rainbow Boosts, Rainbow Ramps or Turbo Tiles) are special zones that appear in the Mario Kart Series. The appearance of these panels have changed throughout the game's history. Boost Pads are used to increase speed of the player's Kart, especially to be used to achieve maximum speed on big jumps and slopes. If the player uses a Mushroom on any of these pads, nothing will happen, however, the player will go faster if the player slipstreams on it.

''Super Mario Kart
Boost Pads appear as yellow arrow on a few courses.

''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.

''Mario Kart Wii
Boost Pads look like multicolored conveyor belts as Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Mario Kart DS 's did. All returning tracks have their first game's design (i.e, In N64 DK's Jungle Parkway the big Boost Pad looks like it did in Mario Kart 64.)

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