The helicopter over the Saint Martin circuit: the Saint Martin racing game

Grand Prix of Saint Martin

Saint Martin Racing GameRace a 4.6 km circuit drawn from Saint Martin's outline

Length: 4.6km
Turns: 8
Main straight: 1080m
Slowest corner: 83km/h
Climb: 51m
Setting: Old-school

Saint Martin's lap is short on corners and long on straight. This Saint Martin racing game uses a race track shaped like Saint Martin, starting at Eastern Point and running round the coast past Pointe La Cale, over the Colline du Fief and on to Baie Nettlé. Pointe des Pierres à Chaux, Pointe Noire and Pointe Plum follow before the last corner, St. Martin, brings you home.

It's an old-school purpose-built circuit with 51 metres of climb, hilly for its size, and the Grand Prix of Saint Martin runs under mist.

The Saint Martin circuit map

The racing line (orange) inside Saint Martin's outline; ○ is the start and finish. Open the map

T1Eastern Point
T2Pointe La Cale
T3Colline du Fief
T4Baie Nettlé
T5Pointe des Pierres à Chaux
T6Pointe Noire
T7Pointe Plum
T8St. Martin

Each corner is named after the place on Saint Martin's outline it traces.

Screenshots from the Saint Martin circuit

Through the slowest corner, Eastern Point

On the grid for the Grand Prix of Saint Martin: Saint Martin racing game screenshot — On the grid for the Grand Prix of Saint Martin

The climb to the hairpin, Saint Martin: Saint Martin racing game screenshot — The climb to the hairpin, Saint Martin

Chasing through a corner in Saint Martin: Saint Martin racing game screenshot — Chasing through a corner in Saint Martin

Through the dip, Saint Martin: Saint Martin racing game screenshot — Through the dip, Saint Martin

On board around Saint Martin: Saint Martin racing game screenshot — On board around Saint Martin

Around the Saint Martin track

Fort Louis watches over Marigot from its hill, with pastel cafés along the waterfront below. Sailing yachts are moored offshore, a Creole house sits by the road, and mist softens the hills behind. Cars and mopeds are parked along the fences, the banner says Bienvenue à Saint-Martin, and the boards along the barriers read Marigot and Saint Martin.

Marigot Fort Louis and pastel cafés
Sailing yachts
Creole house

How to drive the Saint Martin circuit

The 1,080-metre main straight ends at Eastern Point, turn 1, which is also the slowest corner of the lap at 83 km/h. That makes the first braking zone the key to the whole lap: get it right and the hilly run through the remaining seven corners flows.

Ways to race Saint Martin

Time TrialA lap for the Saint Martin leaderboard, chasing the record holder's ghost. Grand Prix RunRace your way across the world's circuits. One free run every day.

What country is this? Guess Saint Martin from one lap

One lap behind the leader, with the racing line drawing itself as it goes. By the flag it's Saint Martin's outline. Could you name it before the reveal?

With sound: the video has a voiceover.