The Great Wall

The Great Wall(長城)
Information
Location	The Great Wall, China, Asia
Track Length	Medium-length track (5.327 km; 3.310 mi)
Asphalt appearances	Asphalt 8: Airborne

The Great Wall, also known as The Great Wall of China (Traditional Chinese: 長城 or 萬里長城; Simplified Chinese: 长城 or 万里长城), is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe. It also serves as one of the several tracks in the Asphalt series.

Overview

Asphalt 8: Airborne

The Great Wall is the first location in the game to be added in an update; in this case, The Great Wall Update.

There are six tracks in The Great Wall:

• The Great Wall / Great Wall Rev.
• The Dragon's Den※ / Buddha's Teachings
• Temple Drive※ / Wall Ascent

※Accessible in Gate Drift

The Great Wall tracks are 3.311 mi (5.327 km) long and run through caves, a town, up the wall, and through a festival area. Paper dragons can be seen flying around, and fireworks also go off if fireworks boxes are destroyed.

The following vehicles have their banners depicted in The Great Wall:

• Ford F-150
• Scion FR-S
• Datsun 280Z
• SRT 2013 Dodge Challenger SRT8
• Apollo N
• SCG 003S
• Marussia B2
• Savage Rivale GTR
• McLaren P1™
• Audi R8 e-tron Special Edition
• TVR Sagaris Special Edition
• Mercedes-Benz SLK 55 AMG Special Edition
• SSC Tuatara
• SSC Ultimate Aero XT

Recommendations

• The Great Wall tracks tend to be twisty, especially The Dragon's Den and Buddha's Teachings, so use a car with great handling.
  • Specifically, on the Dragon's Den variant, the three consecutive tight curves can be "turned into" two tight curves, if the first curve is taken very wide. This trick makes navigating the track faster for any given car and can offer an advantage in TLEs or Multiplayer.
• In Great Wall Rev. and Wall Ascent, there is a shortcut that can be pulled off, but is hard to do so.
  • As of the Porsche Update, this shortcut has been made very hard and later impossible to pull off.
  • The Munich Update patched the exploit and now respawns the player at where they left off.

Gallery

• General
• The Great Wall
• The Dragon's Den
• Temple Drive
• Great Wall Rev.
• Buddha's Teachings
• Wall Ascent

Track layout.

Pre-race.

A Koenigsegg One:1 in The Great Wall's fireworks festival area.

The yellow sign reads 'Rear End Collision - Keep Space'.

The green sign reads 'Qiaochang Lu (Chinese : 侨场路)' which translates to 'Qiaochang Road'. The white sign has an image of a traffic officer and the text reads 'Don't Exceed Speed Limit'.

The yellow sign reads 'Don't Drink and Drive'. The green sign reads 'South'. The white sign reads 'Slow Down: Pedestrians Crossing'.

Pre-race.

Two Hennessey Venom GTs in The Dragon's Den.

A McLaren P1 next to the dragon in The Dragon's Den.

A Holden Coupe 60 after a race in The Dragon's Den.

Track layout

One of the dragons that can be found flying around various parts of the track.

Pre-race.

Start of race in Temple Drive with a Chevrolet Camaro GS.

Track layout

Pre-race.

Track layout

Loading screen

Pre race screen

Pre-race.

Start of race in Buddha's Teachings with two McLaren P1s.

The dragon from The Dragon's Den returns in Buddha's Teachings.

A Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR AMG having won an Elimination event in Buddha's Teachings.

Track layout

Pre-race.

Track layout

Trivia

General

• The Great Wall is the track with the most derivatives in the entire Asphalt series, with six.
• The natural rock arch on the track is based on Tianmen Mountain, Zhangjiajie, China.

Asphalt 8: Airborne

• In the Lunar New Year 2017 Update, attempting to play Temple Drive would instead bring up Buddha's Teachings as soon as the countdown starts.
  • Gate Drift races would also show no gates in that track. Because of this, it was advisable to completely avoid any and all Gate Drift challenges on Temple Drive, especially during Enduro Double Down, as attempting such races on this track would result in immediate challenge failure and the loss of all Enduro Points being banked.
  • This has been fixed as of Car Blueprints Update.
• There are no variations in time of day on this track, regardless of the selected track variant.
• The Great Wall is a commonly used track for testing the handling and drifting capabilities of a car. The S-curve at the beginning is used for steering capacity and the following set of curves (on the left route) is used for drifting radius.
• The Great Wall tracks' internal names are:
  • The Great Wall: Chn 1
  • The Dragon's Den: Chn 2
  • Temple Drive: Chn 3
  • Great Wall Rev.: Chn 1 Reverse
  • Buddha's Teachings: Chn 2 Reverse
  • Wall Ascent: Chn 3 Reverse
• As of the Porsche Update, two rock pillars have been added to further block the wide-jump shortcut exploit used in two of The Great Wall tracks: Great Wall Reverse and Wall Ascent.
  • The Munich Update now respawns the player at where they left the path, making the exploit impossible.
• There are a number of yellow road signs across different parts of the track(s) which caution drivers with messages such as "Don't Drive When Tired", "Rear-End Collision: Keep Space" and "Don't Drink and Drive".
• There are numerous green signs across different parts of the track, one most notably near the red-roofed bridge leading toward the ancient city that reads "Qiaochang Lu (Chinese: 侨场路; lit: Qiaochang Road)". This indicates that portion of the track is located in Yangdong County, a district in Guangdong Province. Below this is a white sign with an image of a traffic officer that reads 'Don't Exceed Speed Limit'.

See also

• China
• Shanghai

Race tracks in Asphalt 8: Airborne
Original tracks	Nevada • Iceland • Tokyo • French Guiana • London • Barcelona • Alps • Venice • Azure Coast
Time-released tracks	The Great Wall1 • Dubai2 • San Diego Harbor3 • Sector 84 • Tenerife5 • Area 516 • Rio de Janeiro7 • Patagonia8 • Munich Subway9 • Transylvania10 • Orbital Loop11 • Terra 912
1. The Great Wall Update, 2. Dubai Update, 3. San Diego Harbor Update, 4. Winter Update, 5. Tenerife Update, 6. Santa's Gift Update, 7. Rio de Janeiro Update, 8. Lunar New Year 2017 Update, 9. Munich Update, 10. Holiday Update, 11. Sixth Anniversary Update, 12. Seventh Anniversary Update