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Reject Games: Nelson Piquet’s Grand Prix: Evolution
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Ah, futuristic anti-gravitation racing. Once a thriving subgenre of its own with F-Zero and Wipeout being the main franchises, it hasn’t really survived to this day with the few recent releases emphasising other gameplay elements instead of pure racing. But back in 2000, all was still well, and the cooperation of a budget games…
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Slick and Tyred – A Radical Proposal
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As is tradition, Formula 1 fans online found reasons to complain after the 2025 Mexican Grand Prix. One of the things that drew the ire of those parts of the audience was the fact that almost every driver managed to do fine with only one stop, and many of them managed over 30 laps…
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Reject Games: Johnny Herbert’s Grand Prix Championship 1998
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The late 1990s was a wild time to be someone interested in Formula One video games. Each year saw the release of multiple titles, some with an official license and some without, and with quality ranging from carefully-crafted masterpieces to rather subpar efforts destined for the bargain bin. Johnny Herbert’s Grand Prix Championship 1998…
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Book Review: How to Build a Car
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Eight years ago, Adrian Newey published a book called How to Build a Car. This was after he had designed eleven championship-winning Formula 1 cars from the most recent 26 seasons, and before adding another four in the intervening years. After much badgering from a relative, this author finally got down to reading Newey’s…
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Reject Games: EA’s F1 Manager
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Those who have become inextricably entwined in the Football Manager jungle at some phase in their life understand the all-consuming nature of management sims. Coaxing your team to a string of victories does not simply equate to a series of routine synaptic flickers, but instead an exponentially growing dopamine hit cruelly extinguished by the…
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A Quiet, But Important Point
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Every fan of the underdog knows about the flashy drives where a driver punched well above the weight of his Formula 1 car. Whether those drives went unrewarded (Damon Hill nearly winning the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix, Luca Badoer’s retirement from P4 at the 1999 European Grand Prix, Markus Winkelhock’s heroics at the 2007…
A tribute to the heroic failures of Grand Prix racing