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PLAAY Holiday Sale 2020

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No sign of the two missing MLB NL card sets.

But did pick up a few PDFs from PLAAY.com‘s 2020 Holiday sale, including:

  • a new jai-alai game
  • the NFL/AFL 1969 season for Second Season football
  • the MLB 1975 season for History Maker Baseball, which comes full circle since the sample teams in my original boxed game were the 2 World Series teams from 1975
  • the 1960 SCRAM (fictional) season for Red White & Blue Racing

Of the 4 I’ve already printed out the racing set, and am currently making the schedule for the Replay To Be Started Soon™.

The funny thing is that just last week I was wondering if PLAAY was ever going to come out with a 1960s season set for the game.  Hopefully a NASCAR set will be produced from that era.

I’m still hoping that those two season sets show up.

Stay tuned!

1962: Formula 1

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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:

  • Porsche 804
  • BRM P57
  • Ferrari 156 “Sharknose”
  • Lotus 25

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!

Quarantine Racing League: Season 1

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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!

Racing, Again

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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!

1979: Darlington

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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!