Thank you so much for playing and leaving this review! 👍
I'm happy that you like the overall style 😌
I'm trying to answer your questions now 😉
The "Wheel Shield'" power up protects you from the carpets' & puddles' effects.
The energy, shown by the blue energy bar at the bottom, is like your stamina that depletes when you move. It doesn't deplete fast on easy difficulty but has more influence on normal and hard difficulty modes! You get a slow down when it's down to 0 until you can refill it.
There will be more power ups soon which you then can activate through another button!
So, what's with getting off the chairs? I have added some intractable objects across the tracks, like the pool you can swim in, the fast food restaurant where you can order food or the couch where you can accompany a sad person... You can use them when getting off the chair and most will give you back energy. One of the upcoming power ups can throw you or your opponents respectively off the chair, too... I'll add more reasons to get off the chair in future updates.
I know that there are still some UI bugs with controllers and will target them with the next updates 👍
Thx again!