User:YoYo/Athens Dash

Athens Dash is a race course in Mario Kart Tour. It is set in Athens, and first appeared in the Spring Tour, making it the first city course to debut in a tour that is not named after the city featured in the course. The course visits various landmarks of the city it is based upon, specifically atop the, and the various ruins atop it, such as the Parthenon and the.

There are currently two routes for this course. At least one route for the course, however, will take racers off of the Acropolis. So far, it is the only city course in Mario Kart Tour to debut in 2023. The time between the debuts of this course and the previous city course (Bangkok Rush) was over twenty tours; the longest period of time between the debut of two Mario Kart Tour city courses.

Athens Dash
This route also appears as Athens Dash R (reversed), Athens Dash T (with ramps), and Athens Dash R/T (reversed with ramps).

Athens Dash 2
This route also appears as Athens Dash 2R (reversed), Athens Dash 2T (with ramps), and Athens Dash 2R/T (reversed with ramps).

Profiles

 * Mario Kart Tour Twitter: Here's a sneak peek of what's to come in #MarioKartTour! Toad and Yoshi went ahead to check out the new tour location and sent a picture back. It looks like some races are about to heat up in a historic city with towering temples.
 * Mario Kart Tour Twitter: The Yoshi Tour is wrapping up in #MarioKartTour. Next up is the Spring Tour featuring the course Athens Dash course [sic], along with other European city courses!

Trivia

 * Prior to its official reveal, references to assets for this course such as pillars and doorways were left within the game's internal data, all of which were appended with a suffix related to the course (mobat).