Ribbon Road

History:

All residents of the Mushroom Kingdom generally celebrate the birthdays of the Royal Family. Princess Peach was no different. She had literally mountains of presents stacked throughout the Kingdom and in an unprecedented move, decided to actually generate some public funds from the celebration. She used her Birthday Supplies to actually create a Grand Prix Race Course, the Ribbon Road. She used Star Magic to make the Ribbon suitable for motorists and then donated all proceeds of its exhibition to the State Department, which of course was mostly used to clear the land of all the garbage generated from her Birthday Celebration. Toad, speaking on behalf of the Mushroom Constituency, did not allow Peach to pull this kind of stunt again, as it was never that popular anyway.

Super Circuit:

Ribbon Road is another weird course, whose type only appears in Super Circuit, this time as the Second Track in the Star Cup. It is literally a big red ribbon with some somehow slower Ribbon Offroad that can bog Karts down on the twisty, turny track. There are lots of turns, jumps and boosts, one of which can lead to a massive shortcut. Toad is very good here because he won't lose a ton of speed on those edges. There is a long straightaway leading up to the starting point, but its really not worth a heavy weight who is going to get marred on the edges and lose everything on those turns. This is a strange course, it's never made an appearance outside of Super Circuit, it would be difficult to justify its existence geographically in a game of any higher amount of bits.