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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…
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The Best Knows Best
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Once more, the weather at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps provided controversy in the Formula 1 paddock and the fandom. As had been the case in the infamous 2021 event, rain arrived shortly before the start of the 2025 Belgian Grand Prix and race control decided to abort the start sequence. Thankfully, unlike the 2021…
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Reject Games: Prost Grand Prix
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Before the start of exclusive licensing agreements in 2003, anyone could produce a game based on Formula One. As computer and video game systems matured in the 1990s, the amount of games produced increased exponentially. Some had a full official licence featuring all of the real-life teams, drivers and circuits, while at the other…
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2024 Season Review
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What a difference twelve months makes. When Max Verstappen cruised to back-to-back victories to begin the 2024 F1 season, a feeling of déjà vu gripped the fandom of this sport. Lest we forget, F1 was coming off a 2023 season which rewrote the definition of “dominant”, Max Verstappen’s magnum opus making seasons like 2002,…
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Gloria Garantita
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We are a little more than a week away from Sir Lewis Hamilton entering his first Grand Prix as a driver of the famous Scuderia Ferrari. The Italian team signed the seven-time world’s champion to a multi-year contract at the start of 2024, finishing his long run with Mercedes. He becomes the fifth former…
A tribute to the heroic failures of Grand Prix racing