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Title: Exciting night in...
Post by: Last Hussar on 29 February 2020, 10:43:59 PM
Home Nations Formula De Championship.

https://twitter.com/LastHussar/status/1233533677625368576?s=20

Title: Re: Exciting night in...
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 29 February 2020, 10:52:59 PM
Awesome
Title: Re: Exciting night in...
Post by: Scorpio_Rocks on 01 March 2020, 02:16:04 AM
I love Formula De (never played solo though! - do you have solo rules or "play" all cars?)
Title: Re: Exciting night in...
Post by: Techno on 01 March 2020, 08:05:26 AM
Excellent !  :-bd

Reminds me very much of the old (Waddington's ?) game......Formula 1 Grand Prix ?

Happy memories.  :)

Cheers - Phil
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Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 01 March 2020, 08:49:18 AM
It's a bit more sophisticated than that !
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Post by: Techno on 01 March 2020, 09:11:29 AM
I'm sure it must be  :)......Stroll on, that Waddington's game must be 50+ years old by now.

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Exciting night in...
Post by: Last Hussar on 01 March 2020, 09:29:11 AM
Just played all the cars as per the normal game. There was a little bias, I sometimes didn't land next to a car which already had a point of body damage, just to avoid the chance of taking them out the game.
Title: Re: Exciting night in...
Post by: Westmarcher on 01 March 2020, 01:00:46 PM
Quote from: Techno on 01 March 2020, 08:05:26 AM
Excellent !  :-bd

Reminds me very much of the old (Waddington's ?) game......Formula 1 Grand Prix ?

Happy memories.  :)

Cheers - Phil

Happy memories, also. Had that game. I used to win this often - probably because I was the oldest kid within my group of friends and so, was capable of understanding it better. I recall the neat little plastic cars and the matching dashboards each player used to record speed, laps, brake wear, etc. I see there are used games for sale on E-Bay.   :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_1_(board_game) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_1_(board_game))
Title: Re: Exciting night in...
Post by: Techno on 01 March 2020, 04:50:56 PM
From what I can remember, Davy.....

If you weren't P1 or P2 on the start grid.....You really didn't have a chance.....Not unlike the real thing, I suppose.
I used to love watching F1 on the tele......It's just totally tedious nowadays...So I don't bother anymore.....Don't think I've watched it for the last four or five years.

Cheers - Mr Things were better when I were a lad.  ;)
Title: Re: Exciting night in...
Post by: Raider4 on 01 March 2020, 06:06:54 PM
Quote from: Techno on 01 March 2020, 08:05:26 AM
Reminds me very much of the old (Waddington's ?) game......Formula 1 Grand Prix ?

Oh, remember that. Seemingly endless summer holidays playing that, Totopoly, Monopoly or, ummmm, I want to say Haunted House? Oh, and The London Game (years before we'd heard of Mornington Crescent . . .).
Title: Re: Exciting night in...
Post by: Techno on 01 March 2020, 07:04:29 PM
....Or playing 'Risk' with friends on wet Sunday afternoons.....Instead of kicking a football about on the local 'rec'.

Cheers - Phil

Title: Re: Exciting night in...
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 02 March 2020, 08:33:54 AM
Quote from: Techno on 01 March 2020, 04:50:56 PM
From what I can remember, Davy.....

If you weren't P1 or P2 on the start grid.....You really didn't have a chance.....Not unlike the real thing, I suppose.
I used to love watching F1 on the tele......It's just totally tedious nowadays...So I don't bother anymore.....Don't think I've watched it for the last four or five years.

Cheers - Mr Things were better when I were a lad.  ;)

I gave up cause it's only shown on the channel owned by that facist Aussie crook....no names no Murdoch's
Title: Re: Exciting night in...
Post by: Raider4 on 02 March 2020, 09:10:19 AM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 02 March 2020, 08:33:54 AM
I gave up cause it's only shown on the channel owned by that facist Aussie crook....no names no Murdoch's

I have no pay TV - no Sky, no BT, no Netflix, no nuffing.

There's talk of the rugby Six Nations going behind a paywall again. I will miss that - just as I miss Test cricket and F1 - but it will still never convince to subscribe to any form of TV station.
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Post by: Techno on 02 March 2020, 09:30:05 AM
Quote from: Raider4 on 02 March 2020, 09:10:19 AM
I have no pay TV - no Sky, no BT, no Netflix, no nuffing.

Same here, Martyn....

I don't feel I'm really missing anything.

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Exciting night in...
Post by: Last Hussar on 02 March 2020, 07:39:31 PM
Quote from: Techno on 01 March 2020, 04:50:56 PM
From what I can remember, Davy.....

If you weren't P1 or P2 on the start grid.....You really didn't have a chance.....Not unlike the real thing, I suppose.
I used to love watching F1 on the tele......It's just totally tedious nowadays...So I don't bother anymore.....Don't think I've watched it for the last four or five years.

Cheers - Mr Things were better when I were a lad.  ;)

As you can see lots of overtaking possible in Formula De. Should be possible even on the Monaco track, which is on the other side.

Now trying g to find other tracks cheap. Seriouslky considering the Nuerburgring