How to Get Free Money in Top Drives

Top Drives, from Hutch Games, is a car-stat collecting and battling game where you build a garage of real vehicle cards and compete in races, trials, and events. The game runs on two currencies: Money, the standard currency you actually earn by playing, and Gold, the premium currency mainly meant for real-money purchases, though it does have a few limited free routes. Money buys card packs and stat upgrades for your cars, so it's the resource that determines how much your garage can grow without spending a cent. In this guide we cover the real methods for getting free Money in Top Drives: winning races and trials, progressing through prize boards, completing car collections, taking advantage of events, and selling cards you don't use. We also explain honestly what's going on with Gold, why it's much more limited, and what free routes exist to grab some anyway. No generators or third-party tricks — just what the game itself offers.

What's the fastest way to get Money in Top Drives?

We've gathered and verified every real method for getting free Money, ranked from most to least profitable based on the time they take and what you can actually earn from each. No tricks, no generators — just the game's own mechanics.

Variable (depends on the trial and your RQ) Daily

Win races and trials

The main source of Money in Top Drives is simply playing: every race you win in Trials (level-based challenges with specific cars and rules) hands out Money as a base reward. The further you get within a Trial, the bigger the rewards for the following rounds, and the game's own Help Center confirms that winning races, earning stars, and progressing through the prize board is the official way to accumulate Money. There's no fixed number because it depends on the active Trial, your Rating Quality (RQ), and the difficulty chosen, but playing consistently is by far what generates the most Money over the long run.

Observed examples: 5,000-7,500 Money at intermediate milestones Daily

Progress through each Trial's Prize Board

Every Trial has a Prize Board made up of Money, Gold, XP, and card pack tiles that unlock as you win races within that Trial. Usually, every so many wins (for example, every five races) an intermediate Money prize is released before you reach the final prize, which is typically an Ultra or Super Rare card. The most cost-effective strategy is to finish the Prize Boards of active Trials before they expire, since leaving them half-done means losing Money you'd already practically secured.

Variable depending on the collection Variable

Complete car collections

Collecting every card in a themed collection (for example, cars from a particular brand or era) grants extra Money rewards, plus XP and sometimes Gold or packs. Collections are visible from the garage/collection menu and show which cards you're missing and what reward you'll get for completing them. Not every collection is worth the same, so it's worth checking which one is closest to completion with cards you already own, rather than chasing collections that require a lot of rare cards.

One-off events with high rewards Every patch

Join special Money events

Hutch Games periodically runs themed events focused specifically on Money (such as the so-called 'Cash Extravaganza'), where players with a strong enough garage can claim very large amounts of accumulated Money over the course of the event. These events aren't always active, so keep an eye on in-game notices and patch notes. When they overlap with an active Trial, it's the best time to focus your play time and maximize the reward.

Variable depending on card rarity Variable

Sell cards you don't use

From the garage you can select any card you're not going to use and sell it for Money. It's a secondary but steady source, especially when you open packs and get duplicates or cars whose stats don't fit your garage. Keep in mind selling is final: once sold, the card is gone for good, so before selling check whether it's missing from an active collection, since completing it can be worth more than the Money you'd get from selling.

Indirect: unlocks Trials with higher rewards Variable

Level up and raise RQ to access better Trials

As your garage's Rating Quality (RQ) grows and your account levels up, more advanced Trials unlock whose Prize Boards hand out higher amounts of Money than the starter Trials. It's not a direct farming method, but a consequence of progressing: the stronger your garage, the more Money you can earn for the same play time. That's why investing Money in upgrading the stats of your best cards, rather than spreading it across many mediocre cars, speeds up access to these more lucrative Trials.

How much free Money can you get per month?

Source	Estimated amount	Frequency
Estimated total	Not quantifiable	—

Top Drives doesn't publish official tables of fixed rewards per race or event: the amount of Money depends on the active Trial, your RQ, whether special events are running, and your play pace, so any specific monthly figure would be made up. What is confirmed is that racing daily, completing Prize Boards, and taking advantage of Money events are the real sources, versus zero reliable routes outside the game itself.

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Frequently asked questions

Can you get free Gold in Top Drives, not just Money?

Yes, though in a much more limited way than Money. Gold is earned by winning stars in races, progressing through Prize Boards (which also include Gold tiles), and via the 'Earn Free Gold' button in the main menu, which grants Gold in exchange for watching ads. Beyond that, Gold is mainly a paid currency, so don't expect to accumulate it at the same rate as Money.

Is it better to spend Money on card packs or on upgrading the cards I already have?

It depends on your progress stage: early on it's worth opening packs to get a variety of cars and complete collections, while once you have a decent garage it usually pays off more to invest Money in raising the stats of your best cards, since that lets you win more advanced Trials with more generous Prize Boards.

Is selling cards a good way to get Money fast?

It's a useful but secondary source, not the main one. Before selling any card, check whether you need it to complete an active collection, since the reward for completing the collection is usually worth more than the Money you'd get from selling it, and selling is irreversible.

How to get free Money in Top Drives