西元前329年開始建造永久性的木造隔間，表面經過粉刷顯得相當明亮[4]，前面則有一個匝口，每一個匝口與中央競技場的距離相當。理論上，競技場可以容納25組四馬雙輪戰車並排使用。到了共和國時代晚期至帝國時代早期，馬克西穆斯競技場擁有12個隔間，而12組四馬雙輪戰車可以同時在場上奔馳。人們可以對每個隔間進行投注，而不同的組別也用顏色區別出來[5]。至少從西元前174年開始，人們使用卡斯特與巴勒克斯（Castor and Pollux）蛋雕像來預測馬匹的騎士。西元前33年，巨大的銅製海豚形計數器被設置在競技場中[6]。
Filippo Coarelli, Guide archéologique de Rome, 1991, p. 225-228 (ISBN 2-01-235428-9)
Jean-Paul Thuillier, Le Sport dans la Rome Antique, Paris, Errance, 1997
Humphrey, John, Roman circuses: arenas for chariot racing, University of California Press, 1986.[14]
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^This is a modern recalculation of the seating capacity at the Circus, a substantial downward revision of Pliny the Elder's estimate of 250,000. For discussion see Humphrey, p. 216.
^In the earliest exercise of the right, a curule chair would have been brought to the spot; its permanent positioning there is unlikely. See Humphrey, p. 61.
^Livy has the plebs seated "promiscuously" (antea in promiscuo spectabant) up to then: see Humphrey, 70.
^Humphrey, p. 171; the gates probably used the same animal-sinew torsion springing as the Roman ballista; Ibid, pp. 137 - 138: opposing teams of Reds and Whites are prominent in late Republican literature, and Greens and Blues in the Imperial era. Some Roman authors held that team-racing in multiple colours dated back to the regal era. Ibid, p. 175 for allocation of stalls by lottery.
^Filippo Coarelli, Guide archéologique de Rome, p. 224
^Pliny the Elder's figure of 250,000 circus seats is unreliable; it ignores the necessary interruptions of seating rows by many access stairways and corridors. It might represent a per foot run seating estimate, or include those watching from the nearby heights, outside the building proper. In late Imperial regionary catalogues, seating estimates for the Circus become even wilder; one gives an impossible 450,000 seats. Discussion is in Humphrey, p. 126.
^It was quarried and first dedicated in the reign of Seti I
^The Ludi Martiales of AD 12 were temporarily transferred from the Circus, after a flood.
^Humphrey, pp. 80, 102, 126 - 9. Some repairs were unforeseen and extensive, such as those carried out in Diocletian's reign, after the collapse of a substantial section of seating, which killed some 13,000 people.
^Bowersock, G., Green, P., Grabar, O., Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 674; citing Procopius, The Gothic Wars, 3. 37. 4.[1] （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） For the last known beast-hunt at the Circus, see Humphrey, p. 131. Humphrey describes the last known Circus event (549) as "games".
^Partner, Peter, Renaissance Rome, 1500-1559: a portrait of a society, University of Claifornia Press, 1976, pp.4, 166.googlebooks preview （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
