Tumult Turnpike is a Marbula One track owned by the Balls of Chaos. It hosted the fifth Grand Prix of Marbula One Season 2 (4 - 5 December 2020), and the first Grand Prix of Marbula One Season 3 (25 - 27 March 2022). It then hosted the fifth Grand Prix of Season 4 (26 - 27 May 2023) as well as the first Grand Prix of Marbula One Season 5 (30 - 31 August 2024).
Marbula One[]
Season 2[]
- Main article: Season 2 Tumult Turnpike Grand Prix
The Tumult Turnpike is a very technical track that is full of sharp 90-degree turns, meaning that precision through the corners is the key factor to setting good lap times around this circuit. The circuit begins with a sharp right hander where it's beneficial to take the outside line through the corner just like all the sharp corners on this circuit. A short straight then takes the marbles onto the second turn, which is really similar in turn 1, just inverted in direction. A slight right-hand kink that is Turn 3 then leads the marbles onto a sweeping banked turn, where it's important to have a straight line exit out of the corner in order to avoid weaving around and losing time on the long straight following turn. After the long straight comes probably the most challenging and punishing portion of the circuit, the Turn 5 and 6 chicane. Marbles in this section will often collide and maybe even come to a complete stop almost and lose tons of positions, due to the heavy braking that happens before this corner, following the fast straightaway after the banked turn. A shorter straight then follows this chicane, before a slight kink with a split leading up to it follows, with the inside line through the split and kink normally being favored over the outside line. Marbles will then dive through turn 8, a sharp left hander, before a hairpin that is Turn 9 follows, and after that the marbles will be onto the pit straight before Turn 10, which has the same characteristics as the other 135-degree turns on this circuit, before another straight will lead the marbles onto the final corner at Turn 11, where marbles will attempt to stay off the curb to have a good ending to their lap.
- Pole Position: Bolt (Thunderbolts) - 53.74
- Race Winner: Hazy (Hazers) - 7:46.13 (16 laps)
- Fastest Lap: Starry (Team Galactic) - 27.14 (lap 14)
Season 3[]
- Main article: Season 3 Tumult Turnpike Grand Prix
The layout of the Tumult Turnpike has stayed quite similar since the track's inception back in Season 2 of Marbula One, however slight adjustments most notably to the curb layout has been made over the years. In Season 3, the triangle curbs on the entry of Turn 1, the exit of Turn 6, and the exit of Turn 7 were removed, the curb placed at Turn 9 was extended to wrap around the whole 180-degree turn, and the curb leading up to Turn 5 was reduced to just a triangle curb.
- Pole Position: Orangin (O'rangers) - 1:15.524
- Race Winner: Orangin (O'rangers) - 7:40.19 (17 laps)
- Fastest Lap: Dash (Turtle Sliders) - 22.02 (lap 9)
Season 4[]
- Main article: Season 4 Tumult Turnpike Grand Prix
In Season 4, triangle curbs were added to the straights leading up to Turns 10 and 11, the curb leading up to the chicane (Turns 5 and 6), was reverted back its look in Season 2, and an accelerator was added just before the banked turn, meaning that even greater speed was carried into the banked turn then before. This could give a more liklehood of a yellow flag at the turn 5/turn 6 chicane (a curb was placed on Turn 3 that mainly guided the marbles towards the middle of the accelerator). The conveyor belt also came slightly faster with less track after turn 11.
- Pole Position: Orangin (O'rangers) - 1:11.432
- Race Winner: Momo (Team Momo) - 6:47.59 (16 laps)
- Fastest Lap: Pinky Panther (Pinkies) - 20.51 (lap 16)
Season 5[]
- Main article: Season 5 Tumult Turnpike Grand Prix
As according to the image, the Season 5 iteration of the track saw the reintroduction of the triangle curbs previously seen in Season 2. These were at the entry of Turn 1 as well as the exits of Turns 6 and 7. While the accelerator remained, it was renamed to booster on the track layout and the guiding curb into it was removed in favour of the new banked curbs. The Turn 9 curb was also changed to its Season 2 counterpart whilst the triangular curbs located in the final two turns were dismissed.
- Pole Position: Snowstorm (Snowballs) - 1:06.53
- Race Winner: Ruzzy (Raspberry Racers) - 6:20.97 (16 laps)
- Fastest Lap: Ruzzy (Raspberry Racers) - 18.64 (lap 9)
Trivia[]
- A yellow flag has been waved at least once in every Tumult Turnpike Grand Prix. Tumult Turnpike is the only Marbula One track with this distinction as of Season 5.
- All flags are shown for:
- Season 2, where the 11th turn detached before the final lap and there was a chance a marble could get stuck, so a safety marble was to deployed to resolve the situation.
- Season 3, when Cerulean became stuck just after the starting lane in lap 2, but quickly gets moving again.
- Season 4 Qualifiers, where Shimmer became stuck after a severe collision with Misty when trying to get onto the conveyor belt, but quickly gets moving again.
- Season 4 Race, when Bolt became stuck onto the pit in lap 5, but quickly gets moving again.
- Season 5, where Swifty became stuck at the entry into the accelerator on lap 15, causing them to drop to last. They finished the race a lap behind.