Mario Kart Stadium

Mario Kart Stadium is the first race track in the Mushroom Cup of Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. It is a basic circuit taking place in an autodrome stadium full with advertisements and banners of the players with fireworks in the background. The course also has a big city in the background. This is the first course to be named after the Mario Kart series itself. This course also makes Mario Kart 8 the only game in the series (excluding the arcade games and Mario Kart 64) where the first course in the game is not named a "Circuit", despite the overall design is still a circuit-type track.

Course layout
The course begins with a short straightaway followed by a right turn. The track then turns right with three colored paths that stay together: an inner blue path, a yellow path in the center that says "Mushroom Cup" on it, and an outer red path with Dash Panels and coins. The track then approaches the anti-gravity part followed by a left turn. Next, the course goes up and down a raised hairpin turn, followed by a gliding area, and one more left turn to the finish line.

Shortcuts

 * Just before the path splits in three, the player can use a boosting item to make a sharp turn between the pipes
 * After the first split path anti-gravity section, there is a dirt section that the player can boost through.
 * Right after the first anti-gravity strip, on the left, there is a ramp that cuts off the corner just before the huge turn.
 * Near the end of the course, just after the gliding ramp, a boost can be used across the sand to bypass the final turn. It is easy to notice the shortcut because there are pipes in the sand.

Trivia

 * This is the only track in the Mushroom Cup to not have an underwater section.
 * Part of this course's music is reused for the theme of Mario Circuit.
 * However, as they're not the same exact song, this is the first time that the first track in a Mario Kart game doesn't share its theme with a Mario Circuit nor any later track (All the tracks in Mario Kart 8 (Deluxe) have their own individual theme)

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