The grid of the Emberline at 17:18: seven pods in rows of two under the start gantry, in a cutting through the Walsh Mesas at twice their height. The course law lays the track flat across and blends it into the land over thirty-six cells, so where the mesas stand the track runs in a canyon of its own.
Three seconds after the go, in the Twin-ram pod at Legend level: the pack on the start straight at 240 km/h, every pod's energy binder arcing between its engines, the sand plume behind, and the first gate (two pylons thirteen high with a lit bar) down the straight.
The slot canyon in the Needle pod at 364 km/h on the nitro: the track narrows to sixteen between walls seventy blocks high, and the chase camera comes in close so a wall never stands between it and the pod. A wall slows a pod that touches it; head-on above 88 a second it wrecks.
The Needles on the plateau, in the Drifter pod: pillars forty-four blocks tall standing in the track on alternate sides, placed by the world's word; the rivals weave nine metres past each one.
Over the gorge in the Tri-engine pod: the kicker lifts the track nine blocks over seventy cells, and a pod leaving it fast flies on the kit's podAir (it falls at 28 m/s²) across a gorge fifty-four long cut down to the water's edge. Too slow and it drops in, and is set back on the far side.
The drop off the plateau toward the setting sun: the climb and the drop are the floor's profile along the lap, and the mesas of the Walsh law stand all round.
The Glasswind Run with the word heron: the same course law on the Ruler Dunes, ten kilometres round, wider, with a longer kicker; the word draws its own circuit, so any word on the link gives a new track and the same word the same one. The Sprint: one lap, every tank of nitro full.