Racing cups are Arcade Mode tournaments seen in the Crash Bandicoot racing games. Here, players participate in a series of three to four races with an accumulating score for each race. At the end of the tournament, the racer with the highest score gets crowned the winner.
Track appearances[]
Racing cups have appeared in every racing game.
Crash Team Racing[]
In this game, Cup Race allows for up to four players to race together with a total of eight racers on a selection of four tracks. If every cup is won at a certain difficulty, a Battle Arena becomes available to use. Winning on easy difficulty unlocks Parking Lot, medium unlocking The North Bowl, and hard unlocking Lab Basement.
The track selection is not the same as in the Gem Cups of this game's Adventure Mode.
Cup | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Wumpa | Crash Cove | Tiger Temple | Blizzard Bluff | Coco Park |
Crystal | Roo's Tubes | Dingo Canyon | Dragon Mines | Sewer Speedway |
Nitro | Mystery Caves | Papu's Pyramid | Cortex Castle | Tiny Arena |
Crash | Polar Pass | N. Gin Labs | Hot Air Skyway | Slide Coliseum |
Crash Nitro Kart[]
Cups reappeared in Crash Nitro Kart, where they functioned similarly to the cups in Crash Team Racing. The main difference, however, is that these cups lack a fourth race. Also unlike Crash Team Racing, the track selection for these cups aren't shuffled around for the Adventure Mode's Gem Cups; the tracks featured in the four Cups are exactly the same as in the four Gem Cups, respectively.
Cup | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Wumpa | Inferno Island | Meteor Gorge | Assembly Lane |
Uka | Jungle Boogie | Deep Sea Driving | Out of Time |
Aku | Android Alley | Tiny Temple | Thunder Struck |
Nitro | Barin Ruins | Clockwork Wumpa | Electron Avenue |
Game Boy Advance / N-Gage[]
The tracks featured in the four Cups are exactly the same as in the four Gem Cups respectively.
Cup | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Wumpa | Inferno Island | Barin Ruins | Thunder Struck |
Nitro | Meteor Gorge | Clockwork Wumpa | Electron Avenue |
Crash | Tiny's Temple | Out of Time | Android Alley |
Crystal | Jungle Boogie | Deep Sea Driving | Assembly Lane |
Crash Tag Team Racing[]
In this game, the Cup Race mode is renamed Grand Prix, and each Grand Prix needed to be purchased in the Multiplayer menu's Gift Shop for local play usage, each of them based on the five sections of Von Clutch's MotorWorld. In these Grand Prixes, players race through three tracks, and the results for each race is based on how many Wumpa Coins they have earned, which is determined by their placement. Unlike in previous games however, each racer gets an additional 30 Wumpa Coins per KO they have made during the race, which adds up to the total score as well. The Grand Prix ends with an acapella cover of Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance". Co-op racing, which is exclusive to the PSP and PS2 versions, is not available in Grand Prix.
Cup | 1 | 2 | 3 | Cost |
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Mystery Island | Tiki Turbo | Pirates of the Carburetor | Deep Sea Driving | N/A |
Happily Ever Faster | Once Upon a Tire | Track and the Beanstalk | Evilocity | 2,000 Coins |
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks | Fossil Fuel Injection | La Brea Car Pits | Tire and Ice | 3,000 Coins |
Tomb Town | Dead Heat | Crash Test Mummies | Pyramid Pass | 6,000 Coins |
Astro Land | Rings of Uranus | Uranus' Mine | Craters on Uranus | 10,000 Coins |
Crash Nitro Kart 2[]
Crash Nitro Kart 2 contains four courses per cup and has four cups in total. Each cup is unlocked by completing the previous one. Successfully completing a cup marks it with a star. Earning a star for each cup unlocks Sudden Death mode.
Cup | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Silver Piston | Zen Race | Yaya's Track | Totem Track | Tiny's Track |
Silver Steering Wheel | Crash's Creek | Coco's Track | Rocky Falls | Canyon Ripper |
Gold Piston | Spider Race | Cortex's Belvedere | Orichalch Track | Abyss Avenue |
Gold Steering Wheel | Nina's Track | Toxic Tunnels | Oxide's Track | Star Track |
Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D[]
Crash Nitro Kart 3D has four tracks in each cup again, like in Crash Team Racing, but only has three cups available. Each cup is unlocked by clearing the previous one. The letters C, R, A, S, and H can also be collected on certain tracks. Collecting these letters allows for the player to unlock a certain character.
Cup | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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N-Tropy | Desert 1* | Outer Space 1 | N. Sanity Island 1 | Fairy 1* |
Wumpa | Desert 2 | Outer Space 2 | N. Sanity Island 2 | Fairy 2* |
Aku-Aku | Desert 3 | Outer Space 3 | N. Sanity Island 3 | Fairy 3* |
- * - Contains the letters C, R, A, S, and H.
Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2[]
This game, the sequel of Crash Nitro Kart 3D, also features four Racing Cup Tournaments with three tracks each.
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled[]
This game combines the cups from Crash Team Racing and Crash Nitro Kart, with some slight differences made to the Crash Nitro Kart cups: as the Crash Team Racing cups have four tracks each, the Crash Nitro Kart cups now follow the same format, and conversely, there are only three Crash Nitro Kart cups as opposed to four. As there already exists the Wumpa and Nitro Cups in Crash Team Racing, the Wumpa Cup from Crash Nitro Kart has been replaced with the Velo one, and the Nitro one of Nitro Kart has its tracks being split over the Aku, Uka, and Lost Cups, the latter being added after an update.
- ¹ - The Lost Cup was added in the 1.12 (PS4/Xbox One) and 1.0.8 (Switch) update. Prior to this update, Clockwork Wumpa and Oxide Station were two of three tracks that were not featured in any of the available cups.
- ² - The Bonus Cup was added in the 1.16 (PS4/Xbox One) and 1.0.11 (Switch) update.
- ³ - The Desert Cup and Space Cup were added in the 1.19 (PS4/Xbox One) and 1.0.14 (Switch) update.