Sydney Sprint
- This article is about the race course from Mario Kart Tour. For it's musical theme, see Tour Sydney Sprint (theme).
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| Appears in | Mario Kart Tour (2021 (1, 2), 2022 (3)) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Booster Course Pass, Wave 2) (2022) | ||||||||||
| Cup | Propeller Cup | ||||||||||
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| Based on | Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||
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Sydney Sprint is a race course featured in Mario Kart Tour. It is set in Sydney, Australia, and made its debut in the April–May 2021 Sydney Tour, the city's namesake tour. Like a majority of the other city courses, there are three routes for this course, which are named Sydney Sprint, Sydney Sprint 2, and Sydney Sprint 3. The second route debuted in the September 2021 Sydney Tour, and the third route debuted in the 2022 Anniversary Tour. The first two routes made their final appearance in the Sunshine Tour while the third route made its final appearance in the 2023 Anniversary Tour. The course visits various landmarks of Sydney, with the first route taking racers through the Sydney Opera House and Luna Park, the second route featuring the Mary Booth Lookout Reserve, and the third route focusing on Barangaroo Reserve. The first and second routes also feature the Sydney Harbor Bridge, where passengers in a nearby Tangara train throw items onto the road. Additionally, the second route starts in the opposite direction compared to the other two. Unlike most other city courses (with the exception of Singapore Speedway and Athens Dash), which generally condense landmarks down, every landmark featured in the varying routes of Sydney Sprint (except for Uluru) is from the general area of the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbor Bridge; unlike Singapore Speedway, though, no routes closely approximate roads or paths featured in the actual city.
Sydney Sprint returns as the first course of the Propeller Cup in the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass.
Mario Kart Tour[edit]
Sydney Sprint[edit]
In the standard layout, the course begins within an area at Circular Quay. After a reverse curve to the right, the player enters the Sydney Opera House and makes a slight left amidst a cheering crowd to a Glide Ramp across the water. After passing under the Bradfield Highway, the player will make a 270° loop clockwise amidst some Luna Park fairgrounds on the left to join the highway and cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge; while on the bridge, passengers from the Tangara train operating on the North Shore Line will throw random Mushrooms, Bananas and Bob-ombs onto the central span. The player then takes a long winding left through downtown Sydney before reaching the finish line.
At the start of the course, there is a fountain at the side of the course. If the player uses a Mushroom to hit the fountain, they will be able to perform several Jump Boosts.
The course also appears as Sydney Sprint R (reversed), Sydney Sprint T (with ramps), and Sydney Sprint R/T (reversed with ramps). In the T variant, several stationary vehicles appear on the Sydney Harbor Bridge, including a car, a truck, and a dash panel ramp truck.
Appearances[edit]
For this course's tour appearances, see List of Sydney Sprint tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour § Sydney Sprint.
Top-tier and middle-tier items[edit]
Select "show" to reveal the drivers, karts, and gliders for which Sydney Sprint and its variants are always favored or favorite courses. For instances in which additional drivers, karts, and gliders temporarily had this course and its variants as favored or favorite courses, see List of Sydney Sprint tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour.
