Hot Air Skyway

Hot Air Skyway is a race track in Crash Team Racing. It is set in the sky with airships based on the one above Cortex Castle in Crash Bandicoot around the pictures on them show that this is Pinstripe's home track. The track features many sharp corners, gaps in the wall where you can drive down and suffer a very long fall and two large jumps. This track is in the Crash Cup and both the Yellow (as well as Tiny Arena, Dingo Canyon and Oxide Station) and Purple (like Roo's Tubes, Papu's Pyramid and Dragon Mines) Gem Cups. In adventure mode its in Citadel City oppsite Oxide Station. This level has 3 short cuts, the first being a farther landing pad to the right after the first jump which requires practice to do, another to turn around after the 2 tracks go side by side, and jump over the border. The third is to use the final turbo ramp, and to land on the track right next to the enterance of the tunnel under the hot air balloon. To do this players must use a fast character, be using an Aku Aku/Uka Uka mask, 10 pieces of fruit and do the little "bunny-hop" just before one launches of the turbo ramp, one may also need to use the "turbo ramp" cheat and the powerslide turbo boost as well, which would make it a lot easier, but it is uncertain whether they are needed to use this shortcut. It is also possible with a lot of luck to fall off at certain points and land on later parts of the track. Without using these methods, this is one of the toughest tracks in the game.

In early screenshots the airships instead had Cortex's face on them, which means it was originally supposed to be Cortex's home track. Another reason is because in the CTR intro, the camera pans through this course before cutting to Cortex preparing for the race.

CTR Race
C- Around the big bend before the first jump.

T- At the last jump.

R- At the first jump.

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File:Crash Team Racing Playthrough Part 45 Hot Air Skyway (Trophy Race)|The trophy race File:Crash Team Racing Playthrough Part 53 Hot Air Skyway (CTR Challenge)|The CTR challenge File:Crash Team Racing Playthrough Part 54 Hot Air Skyway (Relic Race)|The relic race