Motor racing board games - memories?

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spent many hours with a full grid on the Waddington F1 game, brilliant fun .

Do you like Subbuteo?

Do you like Scalextric?

Are you really good at Snooker because you never went to school?

Good. Then you need Pitchcar.



It's exactly as it looks. Build up a track from wooden track sections (available in lots of expansions to build up colossal circuits) and slot-in rubber barriers, then flick your car along the track in a first-past-the-post wins.

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nothing better than watching a car trying to catch up down the main straight and the rest of the field hogging all the corners and slowing more than necessary to make the speeder use all his brakes and tyres up looking for a spot to land on

Coopdevil said:

Do you like Subbuteo?

Do you like Scalextric?

Are you really good at Snooker because you never went to school?

Good. Then you need Pitchcar.

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Looks like riding the guard rails hard was the best option .

I'm another who played F1 regularly. When I couldn't persuade my brother, sister or best friend next door to play, I'd often play it by myself. I'd race all six cars, each with a slightly different strategy ranging from high risk to low risk and quickly learnt that a high risk driving style won more often than any other. I'm pretty sure that that lesson had a considerable impact on the way I've lived life as an adult and my subsequent broken back!

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also drew an extension for the stock board, so much better than Cluedo or Monopoly

can see this thread lighting up ebay with searches for the game

I pruned the games collection (board, role play, card, wargame etc.) quite severely last time I moved and got rid of a few games. The only motor-racing ones I kept are the following two

Speed Circuit - Avalon Hill

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1194/speed-circuit

I've never actually played this, but I believe it's quite similar to the Waddingtons game. Originally published by 3M, the Avalon Hill version has a few rules changes. Used to be the enthusiasts racing game choice in the days before Formula De came out.



Two tracks, Watkins Glen and Monza. Money saved on production by printing them both on the same side of the board...

(The car geek in me feels strangely pleased that the Glen is printed in the same colour as it's famous - or infamous if you are named Cevert - blue armco).



Racing clogs



Character Sheet



Coop

Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix - Mayfair Games

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/101/detroit-cleveland-grand-prix

A bit of a gamer's game this one, well rated by people who play games as a hobby. I picked it up in the sale before Mayfair closed down having heard lots of good things about but, in common it seems with a lot of ostensibly motor racing boardgames, it's really about something else wrapped up in motor racing dress. In this instance it's really a horse-racing game. You buy cars at auction and the racing seems to be about playing cards from your hand to advance your car but keeping the powerful (I.e. move further) cards until just the right moment for the end rather than squandering them all at the start of the race and flagging in the latter stages. Yep, just like conserving stamina in a horse-race...



Double-sided board with two track, Detroit and Cleveland (HELLO CLEVELAND!) surprisingly enough...





In this game you have a hand of cards that you play from to move your car but most of the cards have compulsory moves for the other cars as well - for example the rightmost card here means that the white car must be moved 5 spaces,then the black one 2. So if you are the black car then you end up having to grant a big push to white just to move your car a little bit along the track. That said you often need to move a car out of your way first to get your full movement in so sometimes it's advantageous to be giving generously to your rivals.