The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
As much as I enjoyed playing Lacorsa, I felt the pull back to the first Formula 1 racing game I played. But I wanted to stick to the same era as Lacorsa.
Behold, Shapeways with the solution!
These are 4 of the teams/cars that competed in the 1962 Formula 1 Grand Prix season. Left to right:
I’ll paint them up in proper team colors and use the Formula DE boardgame to play out the season.
The teams/drivers:
Stay tuned!
I played out the remaining 6 races in the QRL, here are the full results.
Race 1 – British Grand Prix:
Race 2 – Monaco Grand Prix:
Race 3 – Indianapolis 500:
Race 4 – Swiss Grand Prix:
Race 5 – Belgium Grand Prix:
Race 6 – French Grand Prix:
Race 7 – Italian Grand Prix:
B. Knight won the championship after his victory in the French Grand Prix (Race 6).
Alfa Romeo won the Constructor’s Championship.
BRM will be relegated for the next season, with the Hikita-Banzai Team taking their place.
Stay tuned!
Yet another racing game is about to come into my possession. Lacorsa.
It’s a card and dice game with race car pawns. It looks cool. And I already set up a season to play.
Only 6 cars get to participate in a race, so I have to figure out how to incorporate 2 more cars, or some kind of qualifying method that disallows 2 cars from each race.
I’ll have it all figured out before I get the game.
Stay tuned!
September 9, 1979: Capital City 400
Race results and current standings:
A poor finish by Richard Petty increases the gap from Darrell Waltrip in first place.
Your race winner, Baxter Price (#45), who never finished in the top 10 ten of any race in real life.
Next: the CRC Chemicals 500 @ Dover International Speedway.
Stay tuned!
September 3, 1979: Southern 500
Race results and current standings:
For only the fourth time in my replay, the real life race winner won.
Your race winner, David Pearson, driving the Rod Osterland #2 in place of injured driver Dale Earnhardt.
Darrell Waltrip maintains the points lead over Richard Petty.
Next: the Capital City 400 @ Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway.
Stay tuned!
The updated driver list for the Grand National Pioneers Series.
Eleven drivers added from Pete Adams’ ‘Local Yokels’ freebie set.
That’s 60+ drivers vying for 43 starting grid spots, even though I know that starting grids were much bigger back then.
No changes to the race schedule.
The first and last races are held on fictional race tracks, which I’ve located in Hanford, Washington and Fresno, California.
Stay tuned!
The Series Finale!
The Pepsi 400 from the Southern Super Speedway.
Race results and final standings:
Final race results:
The 2016 Pepsi Cup Racing Series comes to an end.
PLAAY doesn’t appear to be releasing another Truck Series car set, so this is it. No more truck racing.
I do believe that some of these drivers appear in later PLAAY SCRAM series. I may transfer Louttit, Gayle and Saguisag to one of these other series, someday. Perhaps the 2018 SCRAM-B series?
Next up: the Grand National Pioneers Series begins!
Stay tuned!
Hair-brained scheme #76:
The game comes with balance of performance dashboard cards for the GT6 and GT5 cars so they will be on even footing with the GT4 cars.
I’ll come up with a series sponsor, team names/sponsors, car sponsors, etc. Hopefully I’ll get this series kicked of sooner rather than later.
Stay tuned!
