Le Grande Royale

Le Grande Royale is an Auto Ariel company's Gremlin Cup track. It's known for being Fatal Racing's opening track (visible in footage in game intro), and for having no game-distinct features like corkscrews and loops. It reminds of a classic race track with its combination of straights and turns instead.

Description
"A slick smooth circuit. Its gentle curves and banked corners combine to create a high speed challenge. Just what we have come to expect from the French contingency".

Analysis
The lap starts with a short sprint up to the nearly 90-degree left-hand bend which soon turns into left-right-left chicane. Alongside its last turn there is characteristic short lap fork, theoretically allowing to bypass crowded corner, although not very useful in practice (taking it slows driver down and increases risk of fatality from cutting off some other driver's path). Following the chicane, there is long bend divided into tunnel and outside lane, either is possible to take, but AI players tend to prefer the tunnel. After this, drivers snake through the series of rather slight turns, to eventually enter the longest straight with pit alongside it.

Track is quite beginner friendly in terms of its structure - all turns can be taken in full speed regardless of chosen car, although this will not always be easy (for example when Reise Wagon's Merkur GT is chosen). Because of this, cars with high max speed are greatly favoured (Merkur GT, Celerity MKII). Nevertheless, given track's characteristics, all mistakes will be very hard to make up as most drivers will take lap after lap without any fatalities and bigger disruptions. Player should be careful as every unexpected turmoil or driver going wrong way can have irreversible consequences. It's one of the tracks where finishing race without pit stopping is possible.