List of favored and favorite courses in Mario Kart Tour

In Mario Kart Tour, each race course has its own favored drivers, karts, and gliders. Using these favored items on the course gives special bonuses, such as more items and frenzies, extra bonus points, or longer combo time. Since Version 2.0.0, the list of favored items for a course only changes when that course is featured in a tour, with recently added drivers, karts or gliders receiving favored status on one or more variants of the course.

There are two levels of favored items per course. The top level receives the largest bonuses; for example, top-tier drivers receive three items per box. The middle level offers a smaller amount of bonuses, such as two items per box for middle-tier drivers. Two conditions can modify an item's rank on certain appearances of a course:
 * If the driver corresponds to the cup, they will be bumped one rank up for all three courses in said cup, from bottom to middle or from middle to top. Even if the same course exists in a different cup, it will not apply to the driver in that other cup. For example: using Mario at Mario Circuit 1R in the Mario Cup will prompt Mario from favored to frenzy, although the same will not be true for another appearance of Mario Circuit 1R contained in another driver's cup.
 * Before the Ice Tour, the same happened for a certain kart and glider in each cup. The karts and gliders that received a cup bonus in each tour can be found in the page for that tour under "Signature kart sets".
 * During every tour, the spotlight drivers, karts, and gliders of the first pipe are bumped one rank up for the second race in every cup. Similarly, the spotlight drivers, karts, and gliders of the second pipe are bumped one rank up for the third race in every cup.
 * Occasionally, certain items are bumped one rank up in the first race in every cup during its debut in a certain tour. This has happened with the Rambi Rider in the Jungle Tour and the Super Mario Kart Glider in the Super Mario Kart Tour.
 * In rare cases where a spotlight driver is the featured driver in one of the cups, they will receive a bump of two ranks up on the race where the boosts coincide, automatically making them a frenzy driver for that race. Before the Ice Tour, this was possible for karts and gliders as well. This has happened in 11 cups thus far, though some items were already favored on the affected course(s):