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) and will host 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)
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:
- In Season 2 the 11th turn deteched and can stuck a marble, and a safety marble has to deploy to cool down the race.
- In Season 3 Cerulean got stuck just after the starting lane in lap 2, but quickly gets moving again.
- In Season 4 Qualifiers Shimmer got stuck with a severe collision with Misty when trying to get onto the conveyor belt, but quickly gets moving again.
- In Season 4 Race Bolt got stuck onto the pit in lap 5, but quickly gets moving again.
- In Season 5 Swifty got stuck at the entry of the accelerator in lap 15 and all other marbles including the safety marble failed to disluge him, leading to his DNF.