Grand Prix

The Grand Prix is a series of limited time special events in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. Every Grand Prix introduces a new race course to the game, along with an assortment of items to the Pit Stop. During a Grand Prix, players fill their Nitro Gauge across three tiers - Bronze, Silver and Gold - through the completion of challenges and earn items such as stickers, kart decals, kart bodies, characters and character skins as they fill it up. Players also compete in up to two leaderboards: The Championship Leaderboard, which ranks players according to their performance in Online Matchmaking mode and the Nitro Leaderboard, which ranks players according their acquired Nitro. Every player that ranks in the top 5% of either leaderboard at the end of the grand prix will be awarded a season decal to the Champion Kart, which is also awarded for first time winners.

Every Grand Prix-related announcement is done via "CTR TV", a news broadcast show presented by Chick Gizzard Lips and Stew. A scrolling text banner also appears on the main menu, informing players about the track of the day, daily star and the new race track.

In the "Grand Prix" menu, players are shown information on their Nitro Gauge and are presented with a list of challenges that can be done for extra Nitro points. This menu can be accessed through the main menu in the "Grand Prix" button.

The first Grand Prix, Nitro Tour, started on July 3rd, 2019 and ended on July 28th, 2019.

The second Grand Prix, Back N. Time, started on August 2nd, 2019 and ended on August 25th, 2019.

The third Grand Prix, Spyro N. Friends, started on August 30th, 2019 and will end on September 29th, 2019.

Nitro Gauge
The "Nitro Gauge" is filled through completing challenges, races or battles. Completing any offline race or battle rewards the player with 5 Nitro, while completing any online race or battle rewards 10 Nitro, instead.

Using certain items during a match can increase Nitro Point gain. Items that increase the Nitro bonus have a small canister on the bottom-left corner of their icon, along with the appropriate percentage bonus.

Challenges
Each set of challenges can only be done under a limited time, such as one day, one week or the entire duration of the grand prix.

Quick Challenges
Quick Challenges are a series of 5 simple challenges. These are always the same and can only be done once a day. They reward the player with 100 Nitro points each, totaling at 500 per day.
 * Coming in First: Win a race in any mode.
 * Fashion Show: Customize a kart and drive it.
 * N. Tropy's Apprentice: Complete a Time Trial race.
 * Online Racer: Complete a race in Online Matchmaking.
 * Window Shopping: Visit the Pit Stop to discover the daily offers.

Daily Challenges
Daily Challenges are a series of 10 challenges that can only be done in one day. Challenges include doing Trick Jumps using the daily star, which is a specific character selected for that day, doing a "CTR Challenge" or beating a time in the track of the day, a specific track selected for that day, scoring a number of goals in a specific mode in Battle Mode, hitting other opponents a number of times, among others. In total, they reward the player with about 900 Nitro points every day.

Weekly Challenges
Weekly Challenges are a series of 12 challenges that can only be done in one week. These challenges usually require more specific and harder-to-achieve conditions than the Daily Challenges. In total, they reward the player with about 3000 Nitro points every day.

Themed Challenges
Themed Challenges are a set of challenges themed around the new items and race track brought in with the Grand Prix, such as winning a race in the new track as a new racer. These challenges last as long as the Grand Prix does.

Pro Challenges
Pro Challenges are the most difficult set of challenges. These challenges have specially specific conditions in order to be completed, such as breaking all time crates in a race track, beating a Platinum Relic time in a race track or going from 8th place to 1st place on the last lap during an Online Matchmaking race. These challenges last as long as the Grand Prix does.

Nitro Tour
This Grand Prix was themed around a world tour in the Egyptian desert and Arabian bazaar and the Nitro Squad.
 * Duration: July 3rd - July 28th
 * New Characters: Tawna, Ami, Megumi, Liz, Isabella
 * New Karts: Bandibuggy, Rocket, Le Chaux
 * Miscellaneous additions: Country Flag stickers, Twilight wheels

Back N. Time
This Grand Prix was themed around travelling back in time to the Prehistory affected by Fake Crash.
 * Duration: August 2nd - August 25th
 * New Characters: Baby T, Baby Crash, Baby Coco
 * New Karts: Nostalginator, Mammoth, Probulot 2000
 * Miscellaneous additions: Lava Rock wheels

Spyro N. Friends
This Grand Prix was themed around the Spyro universe.
 * Duration: August 30th - September 29th
 * New Characters: Spyro, Gnasty Gnorc, Hunter
 * New Karts: Gnasty Ride, Dragonfly, Spyromobile
 * Miscellaneous additions: Elemental wheels, Gems paint jobs