Forza Horizon 6 Speed Traps & Speed Zones: How to 3-Star Them

Two Challenges That Sound the Same

Speed Traps and Speed Zones both reward going fast, but they measure it completely differently, and confusing the two is why people fail them.

A Speed Trap is a single camera on the road. It records your speed at the exact instant you pass it. Nothing before or after matters. You could crawl up to it and floor it for the last hundred meters. The only number that counts is your speed crossing that one line.

A Speed Zone measures your average speed across a marked stretch of road. Now the whole section matters. One blazing straight and one slow corner average out to a mediocre score. Consistency beats peak speed here.

Both have three-tier scoring:

★ One star — easy, almost any quick car clears it
★★ Two stars — needs a genuinely fast car and a clean run
★★★ Three stars — the demanding threshold, often requiring a top-tier car and a good line

Get the distinction right and the technique for each falls into place.

How to 3-Star Speed Traps

Speed Traps are the simplest stunt in the game once you understand them. Pure top speed at one point. That’s it.

Find the longest run-up. Look at the road feeding into the camera and start your approach as far back as possible. Expressways and the Ito Airfield runway are gifts here: long, straight, and perfect for building speed.
Bring your fastest car. This is the one stunt where raw top speed wins outright. The Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut is the answer for any trap with enough approach distance. Its long gearing keeps accelerating well past where other cars hit the limiter.
Don’t brake before the camera. If there’s a corner after the trap, that’s a problem for after the trap. Hit the line flat-out and sort out the corner later.
Draft traffic. AI cars give a slipstream. If one’s heading toward the trap ahead of you, tuck in close for a few extra mph.
Use downhill. If the trap sits on a slope, approach from the downhill side and let gravity add to your top speed.

For traps with a short approach where the Jesko can’t fully spin up, a car with brutal acceleration like the Rimac Nevera reaches a higher speed in the distance available.

How to 3-Star Speed Zones

Speed Zones are the thinking version. Average speed means you can’t just bury the throttle and hope. You have to be fast through the whole section, including the corners.

Scout the section first. Drive it once slowly to learn where the turns are. The killer is a blind corner that forces a panic brake in the middle of the zone.
Pick a balanced car, not just a fast one. Top speed alone doesn’t help if you’re braking for every corner. You want strong acceleration and braking so you can carry speed through technical sections and recover quickly. A Porsche 911 GT3 RS or similar handling car often beats a pure straight-line hypercar in a twisty zone.
Brake before the zone, not inside it. Scrub any extra speed before the entry marker. Braking inside the zone tanks your average.
Cut corners. Two wheels on dirt or grass won’t penalize you. The scoring only cares about speed and staying inside the zone boundaries.
Try both directions. Some zones are noticeably easier one way thanks to a downhill run or friendlier corner angles. If you’re stuck, run it the other direction.

The mental shift for Speed Zones: you’re not chasing one big number, you’re protecting an average. A single hard brake hurts more than a slow top end.

Car Choices at a Glance

Speed Traps: Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut for long approaches, Rimac Nevera for short ones. Pure speed.
Speed Zones: a balanced car that brakes and accelerates hard — Porsche 911 GT3 RS, Koenigsegg Agera RS, or anything with high handling stats for twisty zones. A flat, open zone can still use the Jesko.

For a deeper breakdown of the best top-speed and average-speed cars, see our best Speed Trap cars guide.

Finding the Stunts

Speed Traps and Speed Zones are scattered across all nine regions, and some sit behind Wristband progress, so they won’t all appear at the start. They show on your map once you’ve revealed their area by driving nearby.

I’m not listing exact coordinates and per-stunt thresholds here, because the numbers differ at every trap and zone and a wrong figure points you at the wrong stretch of road. Use the in-game map to see the stunts you’ve revealed, and a verified interactive map for the exact 3-star targets and approach lines on the hard ones.

Clearing Them Efficiently

Hit them as you drive. You’ll trigger plenty of traps and zones between events. Grab 1-2 stars for free, which feeds Discover Japan progress.
Return with the right car. Come back to the 3-star holdouts once you own a Jesko for traps and a handling car for zones.
Do region sweeps. Clear all the stunts in one region before moving on, so you’re not backtracking across the map.

Speed Traps and Speed Zones are two of the five PR Stunt types. For Drift Zones, Danger Signs, and Trailblazers, see the PR Stunts guide and the dedicated Danger Signs guide. All of them push your Wristband and Discover Japan tracks, and the progression guide ties it together.