The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
September 8th, 2013: the Good Snips 500 @ Northwest Empire International Raceway.
Race results:
Russ O’Casey wins his 4the race of the season. Pole sitter and points leader Tom Rossi finished in 42nd after an engine failure.
Current standings:
Parnell Drake’s 10th place finish is enough to pull ahead of Tom Rossi in the standings.
Next: the Heartland 500 @ Midwest Motor Speedway.
Stay tuned!
September 1st, 2013: the Big Sky 400 @ Rocky Mountain Raceway.
Race Results:
Tom Rossi wins his 3rd race of the season and pulls ahead of Parnell Drake and Wayne Montana, after the two finish far back in the pack.
Current standings:
Next: the Good Snips 500 @ Northwest Empire International Raceway.
Stay tuned!
8 months later…
August 25th, 2013: the Daily Double Duel at OP @ Ocean Pacific International.
Race Results:
Wayne Montana wins his 6th race of the year, his 5th in in the last 8 races.
Tom Rossi returns after being injured during qualifying for the Signal Health Care 400, which kept him out of that race, and finishes 4th.
Current standings:
Tom Rossi finishes ahead of Parnell Drake and they are now tied for the points lead, with Wayne Montana moving up with each win.
Next: the Big Sky 400 @ Rocky Mountain Raceway.
Stay tuned!
August 11th, 2013: the Signal Health Care 400 @ New England Colonial Speedway.
Points leader Tom Rossi wrecked during practice, resulting in an injury that kept him out of this week’s race.
Race Results:
Wayne Montana wins his 5th race of the year.
Current standings:
Rossi’s DNQ allows Parnell Drake to grab the points lead with his top 10 finish.
Next: the Daily Double Duel at OP @ Ocean Pacific International.
Stay tuned!
I pulled another racing game out of storage.
This was a Kickstarter from a couple of years ago. The oddest part of the reward was the painted metal cars add-on.
Nice cars, but the main player color cars are orange, red, white, black, blue, and purple.
The game adds extra AI cars in black (2, superfast), yellow (3, fast) and purple (3, slow), so it’s odd that a couple of player colors are also AI colors.
But looking at the painted metal cars set, there’s no blue or orange, two pairs of white/light grey, and green, which are neither a player or AI car color.
Plus the fact that the non-AI cars come in pairs, when all you’re running is a single car in this game, not a team of 2, is odd.
I went ahead and 3D printed some replacement cars (based on an upscaled file for a Formula D car) plus a bunch of 1964-era F1 cars in the approximate scale/size.
Plus I ordered a half dozen metal cars to use from Eureka Miniatures.
First car is from the first edition of Race! Formula 90, second car is the plastic one from the 2nd edition, 3rd is a painted car from Eureka Miniatures.
I’ll be painting the metal ones from Eureka Miniatures in the 6 appropriate colors. I may have to look into paint schemes from the 1980s-90s for these cars, because of their styling (there’s a small air intake above the cockpit).
Stay tuned!
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I have two versions of this game, one that I acquired and printed out in 2015, and an updated version that’s been sitting on my hard drive since late 2020.
I think it’s about time that I sat down and learned this one.
This is a lap-by-lap recreation of F1 races, and the most recent set that I picked up has all the world champions up to 2019, and the 2019 season set.
Other seasons that I have are 1981, 1988, and 2016, and a variety of historical tracks.
I may just take 20 championship drivers and 20 or so tracks and run a season, if I decide not to replay one of the seasons I have.
Stay tuned!
So much for trying to finish off the season in one week.
July 28th, 2013: the Colonial 500 @ Eastern Seaboard Speedway.
Race Results:
Wayne Montana wins his 4th race of the season.
Current Standings:
Tom Rossi’s 43rd to 3rd start to finish extends his lead in the points standings, while Wayne Montana moves his way up to 3rd.
Next: the Snooze-Inn 350 @ Sun King Speedway.
Stay tuned!
I once ran 7 races over a 3 day weekend, to finish out the 2012 SCRAM season.
Let’s see if I can finish 12 races over the next week or so.
STAY TUNED!
July 21st, 2013: the Bitty Beer 400 @ Southern Super Speedway.
The big pre-race news was points leader Parnell Drake failing to qualify for the race, after he had crashed out of last week’s event.
Tom Rossi needed a 6th place finish or better to take to lead in the standings.
Race results:
Chris Wynne is victorious for the first time this season.
Tom Rossi finishes 3rd and takes over the lead in the points standings.
Parnell Drake sits 4 points behind Tom Rossi in the standings with 12 races to go in the season.
Next: the Colonial 500 @ Eastern Seaboard Speedway.
Stay tuned!
