Grand Prix

For other uses, see Grand Prix (disambiguation).

Grand Prix is the main mode in the F-Zero series games where the pilot gets to compete for points. At the end of each grand prix, which varies by game, the top three pilots will perform victory laps on either the last track they raced, on a special circuit, or revisit previously completed tracks.

F-Zero

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Each racer is expected to meet lap requirements, and that is 15th first lap, 10th second lap, 7th third lap, 5th fourth lap, and 3rd fifth lap, or else the pilot retires. Points are rewarded based on how well a racer is doing each lap. First four laps are 900 for 1st, 600 for 2nd, 400 for 3rd, and 200 for 4th and below. Final lap is 2500 for 1st, 1500 for 2nd, and 1000 for 3rd. Getting 10000 earns the racer an extra try to race if they retire, up to five tries. If the pilot reaches 20th place, the game forces the pilot to retire as soon as the rank is reached. After each lap, the racer is rewarded a boost, if they have an open slot.

As the pilot clears more laps, frog looking machines that are orange or flashing color, similar to the Wild Boar, will serve as obstacles. The flashing ones will explode upon contact. They move pretty slowly compared to the pilots still in the race. They are ranked out racers that used to be green or purple. These racers can be found in 5th place and below.

#	Knight League	Queen League	King League
1	Mute City I	Mute City II	Mute City III
2	Big Blue	Port Town I	Death Wind II
3	Sand Ocean	Red Canyon I	Port Town II
4	Death Wind I	White Land I	Red Canyon II
5	Silence	White Land II	Fire Field

BS F-Zero Grand Prix

Intro

User interface

BS F-Zero Grand Prix does Grand Prix a little different. First, the player has to get through Free Practice on four tracks that were introduced in F-Zero. Once completed, the game shifts over to Grand Prix mode. Points are no longer rewarded because the player never gets a Game Over by retire. The player has six minutes per track. Same rules apply as F-Zero, except the race doesn't end after the fifth lap. This is the only mode where the player has a chance to play on the new tracks. Once the final track is complete, the game no longer continues to the title screen, likely due to how the Satellaview is schedule-based.

#	Week 1 (Knight League)	Week 2 (Queen League)	Week 3 (King League)	Week 4 (Ace League)
1	Mute City I	Mute City II	Mute City III	Mute City I
2	Big Blue	Port Town I	Death Wind II	White Land II
3	Death Wind I	Sand Ocean	Red Canyon I	Red Canyon II
4	Silence	White Land I	Port Town II	Fire Field
5	Sand Storm	Sand Storm II	Silence II	Big Blue II

BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2

Soundlink

BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2, same rules apply to the first version.

Week 1

#	Week 1	Week 2[citation needed]
1	Forest I	Metal Fort I
2	Big Blue II	Forest III
3	Sand Storm I	Sand Storm II
4	Forest II	Metal Fort II
5	Silence II	Mute City IV

Note: While videos of Week 1 are available, there is no video confirming the order of tracks in Week 2.

Standalone

This version of BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2 doesn't rely on the schedule of the Satellaview. It adopts the same rules as F-Zero.

#	Ace League
1	Mute City IV
2	Big Blue II
3	Sand Storm I
4	Silence II
5	Sand Storm II

F-Zero X

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The rules have been revamped. If the racer retires 5 competitors, they are rewarded an extra try. However, per race session, the pilot can't earn any more tries. Points are rewarded at the end of a race.

Boost power is only granted on the second lap.

Rank in the next race is determined by how well the pilot did in the previous race. Getting 1st means the racer starts in 30th the next race and vise-versa, for all the ranks.

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	Retire
Points	100	93	87	81	76	71	66	62	58	54	50	47	44	41	38	35	33	31	29	27	25	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	0

Total Ranking is when the points are added up after each race to see how the pilot is doing overall. A pilot can do poorly in one race and do excellent in the other races and still get 1st place at the end. The 2nd place racer in the total ranking is your rival. Your rival will have slightly better AI than the rest of the competitors.

If there is a tie at the conclusion of the Grand Prix, the pilot that placed 1st place the most will be declared 1st. If there is still a dispute at this point, whoever had the highest point total after the second to last race is rewarded 1st.

At the conclusion of the Grand Prix, the top three pilots race around an oval track, as a victory lap. They will stop after a minute or so of racing and be placed on pedestals of 3rd, 2nd, and 1st place. If cleared on standard class or higher, the pilots are seen outside their machines. If cleared on master class, the player gets to see the pilot's victory speech.

Captain Falcon's victory speech.

#
1	Mute City Figure Eight	Sector α Inverted Loop	Fire Field Zig-Zag Jump	Rainbow Road Psychedelic Experience	X
2	Silence High Speed	Red Canyon Multi Jump	Silence 2 Wavy Road	Devil's Forest 3 Mirror Road	X
3	Sand Ocean Pipe	Devil's Forest 2 Up and Down	Sector β Double Somersault	Space Plant Cylinder & High Jump	X
4	Devil's Forest Corkscrew	Mute City 2 Technique	Red Canyon 2 Slim Line	Sand Ocean 2 Wave Panic	X
5	Big Blue Cylinder	Big Blue 2 Quick Turn	White Land 2 Half Pipe	Port Town 2 Snake Road	X
6	Port Town High Jump	White Land Dangerous Steps	Mute City 3 Jumps of Doom	Big Hand Deadly Curves	X

The Joker Cup can be unlocked by coming in first place overall on standard class in the Jack, Queen and King Cups respectively.^{[citation needed]} The X Cup can be unlocked by coming in first place overall on expert class in the Jack, Queen, King, and Joker Cups respectively.^{[citation needed]} X Cup tracks are randomly generated and are different every time.

F-Zero X Expansion Kit

#
1	Silence 3 アウトサイドループ	Mute City 4 スリムハーフパイプ	Default*
2	Sand Ocean 3 シリンダーループ	Space Plant 2 ストレートジャンプ	Default*
3	Devil's Forest 4 ダイビング	Port Town 4 トラップロード	Default*
4	Port Town 3 ジグザグクランク	Fire Field 2 180ローリング	Default*
5	Devil's Forest 5 エックス	White Land 3 スター	Default*
6	Big Blue 3 ジャポン	Big Foot ビッグフット	Default*

*These tracks will change depending what the player created and placed in the cup from within Course Edit.

Unique to F-Zero X, if the player were to press L, it toggles a green time display that estimates how far away the leading AI racer is from them, "+" means the pilot is behind while "-" means the pilot is ahead.

F-Zero GX

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Same rules as F-Zero X. Only difference is competition is within five tracks, not six.

At the conclusion of the Grand Prix, the top three pilots race around Mute City Sonic Oval, as a victory lap. After that, the top three pilots are placed on pedestals while the other participants cheer them on. The 1st place racer will be interviewed on F-Zero TV.

#	Ruby Cup	Sapphire Cup	Emerald Cup	Diamond Cup	AX Cup
1	Mute City Twist Road Difficulty: *	Big Blue Drift Highway Difficulty: **	Fire Field Cylinder Knot Difficulty: **	Cosmo Terminal Trident Difficulty: ***	Aeropolis Screw Drive Difficulty: **
2	Casino Palace1 Split Oval Difficulty: *	Port Town Aero Dive Difficulty: **	Green Plant Intersection Difficulty: ***	Sand Ocean Lateral Shift Difficulty: ****	Outer Space Meteor Stream Difficulty: ***
3	Sand Ocean Surface Slide Difficulty: **	Green Plant Mobius Ring Difficulty: ***	Casino Palace1 Double Branches Difficulty: ***	Fire Field Undulation Difficulty: ****	Port Town Cylinder Wave Difficulty: ****
4	Lightning Loop Cross Difficulty: ***	Port Town Long Pipe Difficulty: ***	Lightning Half Pipe Difficulty: ****	Aeropolis Dragon Slope Difficulty: *****	Lightning Thunder Road Difficulty: *****
5	Aeropolis Multiplex Difficulty: ****	Mute City Serial Gaps Difficulty: ****	Big Blue Ordeal Difficulty: *****	Phantom Road Slim-Line Slits Difficulty: ******	Green Plant Spiral Difficulty: ******

F-Zero: Maximum Velocity

Same rules as F-Zero, except no points and 20th place will not cause the pilot to auto-retire.

There are three obstacles, similar to that of the frog looking machines from F-Zero and its Grand Prix mode:

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  Yellow ranked out racer.

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  Green ranked out racer.

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  Standard class and above these UFOs appear in random spots on the track. They appear more and more frequently as the pilot clears more laps. They start appearing sooner depending on the class selected, where master class means they appear the most frequently. They explode on contact, similar to mines.

#	Pawn League	Knight League	Bishop League	Queen League (locked)
1	Bianca City Stretch Circuit	Tenth Zone East Snake Circuit	Bianca City Tightrope Circuit	Crater Land Loop Circuit
2	Stark Farm First Circuit	Beacon Port Crossroad Circuit	Ancient Mesa Skating Circuit	Tenth Zone East Plummet Circuit
3	Empyrean Colony Dash Circuit	Synobazz Explosive Circuit	Crater Land Skid Zone Circuit	Empyrean Colony Twist Circuit
4	Stark Farm Second Circuit	Ancient Mesa Split Circuit	Cloud Carpet Icarus Circuit	Fire Field Land Mine Circuit
5	Cloud Carpet Long Jump Circuit	Stark Farm Third Circuit	Bianca City Ultimate Circuit	Fire Field Warrior Circuit

F-Zero: GP Legend

User interface

Results screen

Same rules as F-Zero GX.

#				(Expert)	(Expert)	(Expert)
1	Mute City Traditional Park	Silence Box rink	Port Town Forked Road	Mute City Traditional Park II	Silence Box Rink II	Port Town Forked Road II	Mute City I
2	Red Canyon Junction	Sand Ocean Caterpillar	Silence Honeycomb Rink	Red Canyon Junction II	Sand Ocean Caterpillar II	Silence Honeycomb Rink II	Big Blue
3	Mist Flow Clip Oval	Mute City Expansion Park	White Land Flower	Mist Flow Clip Oval II	Mute City Expansion Park II	White Land Flower II	Silence
4	Lightning Volute	Big Blue Slip Highway	Fire Field Wreckage Circuit	Lightning Volute II	Big Blue Slip Highway II	Fire Field Wreckage Circuit II	Port Town II
5	Fire Field Blast Track	Mist Flow Front & Back	Red Canyon Peak Jump OR Illusion Abyss Drop*	Fire Field Blast Track II	Mist Flow Front & Back II	Red Canyon Peak Jump II OR Illusion Abyss Drop II*	Red Canyon
6							Sand Ocean
7							White Land II
8							Fire Field

*Random^{[citation needed]}

F-Zero Climax

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Same rules as F-Zero: GP Legend, except there are 24 competitors instead of 30, which means that the point distribution is the following.

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	Retire
Points	100	93	87	81	76	71	66	62	58	54	50	47	44	41	38	35	33	31	29	27	25	23	21	20	0

Along with boosting on the second lap, the racer gets a Boost Fire after each lap, very similar to F-Zero and F-Zero: Maximum Velocity.

#	Bronze Cup	Silver Cup	Gold Cup	Bronze Cup (Expert)	Silver Cup (Expert)	Gold Cup (Expert)	Bronze Cup (Master)	Silver Cup (Master)	Gold Cup (Master)	Platinum Cup
1	Mute City Six Carat	Big Blue Slalom	Lightning R Trace	Mute City Eight Carat	Sand Ocean High Speed Edge II	White Land Hornet	Red Canyon Barrel Roll	Mute City Cactus Circuit II	Port Town Half Dome II	Mute City Multiply
2	Sand Ocean High Speed Edge	Red Canyon Inside Out	Port Town Half Dome	White Land White Wolf	Lightning Trust Jump	Silence Nightmare Fear	Sand Ocean High Speed Edge III	Mist Flow Puzzle Ring	White Land Hornet House	Big Blue Big Billow
3	Port Town Sky Highway	Mist Flow Double Link	Sand Ocean Key Break	Big Blue Arch Hill	Mist Flow Mist Ring	Big Blue Single Course	Lightning G Trace	Lightning Loss Landing	Sand Ocean Key Break	Silence Silence II
4	White Land Wolf	Fire Field Front Line	Big Blue Slip Down	Port Town Sky Highway II	Mute City Cactus Circuit	Sand Ocean Key Break II	Mute City Ten Carat	Fire Field Front Line II	Big Blue Twin Course	Port Town Great Wings
5	Fire Field Heat Circuit	Silence Nightmare	Illusion Lost Way	Red Canyon Inside Out II	Fire Field Burnt-Out Rink	Illusion Lost Way II	White Land Last Wolf	Silence Nightmare One	Illusion Lost Way III	Red Canyon Red Canyon II
6										Sand Ocean Sand Ocean
7										White Land White Land II
8										Fire Field Fire Field