HOT WHEELS: LET’S RACE Season 3

Here's the good news up front: this is a kids' show worth pressing play on. Season 3 of HOT WHEELS: LET'S RACE follows Coop and his friends as they train, race, and try to beat a villain named Cruise — and the whole thing runs on values a Christian family can cheer for. Hard work. Encouraging one another. Being a good sport even when you lose. Playing fair even when the other side won't.

The animation is bright and detailed, the action is fast, and the lessons never feel like a lecture. When Coop tells his teammates, "Be a good sport, no trash talk," the show means it.

The only note of caution is for your littlest ones: there's light cartoon violence — cars crashing and tumbling, though no one gets hurt — and the villains take open pride in being evil. Nothing scarring, just worth a parent's eye.

So if you've got kids who love cars, this one's an easy yes. For the very youngest, watch the first episode alongside them and gauge how they do.

The Hot Wheels team is back on the track, and they've got a problem named Cruise — a rude girl who doesn't play fair, backed by her scheming dad, Professor Rearview.

Cruise races with "track blasters" that build shortcuts in front of her, and the team has to figure out how to compete honestly against an opponent who won't. So they train harder, welcome a monster-truck mentor named Mega Rex, and lean on each other. The finish line — and who crosses it first — is the fun of finding out.

Three stars, and they're well earned. This is high-quality, artistic animation packed with detail — vivid colors, fast racing, and the kind of energetic action that keeps young viewers leaning forward.

What lifts it above simple eye-candy is that the fun and the values move together. The team's teamwork drives the plot, not just the message. Episodes give kids real set pieces — a giant T-Rex truck, an air sprayer that sends everyone floating, a mentor's training sessions — while keeping the emotional stakes about sportsmanship and perseverance.

It's not aiming to be more than a bright, well-made children's series, and it succeeds cleanly at what it sets out to do. Solid, satisfying, and worth a family's time.

This show quietly gets a lot right. Its heart is a biblical, moral outlook: the Hot Wheels team are hard workers who encourage one another, insist on good sportsmanship, and choose to play fair even when winning would be easier the other way. Coop's instinct to congratulate a rival — even one who won by cheating — models the kind of grace we hope our kids grow into.

The story draws its line clearly. Cruise bullies the others and cheats to get ahead, and Professor Rearview delights openly in his "evil plan." The show never celebrates that; it names it as the wrong way, and lets honest effort be the thing worth admiring. For young viewers, that's a healthy picture of right and wrong.

The values here echo Scripture's own call to work with integrity and to run our race honestly. As Paul writes, "An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules" (2 Timothy 2:5) — a fitting word for a show about racing well and racing fair.

This is the rare kids' show where the fast fun and the good lessons pull in the same direction — teamwork, hard work, and playing fair, all wrapped in bright, detailed animation. A little discretion for the very youngest, and then let them roll. Our verdict: worth watching.