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Formula Motor Racing box art
1995 Ranked #3,175

Formula Motor Racing

Racing card game where teams maneuver two cars into podium positions across a series of events. Cards can advance your racers or drag opponents back, so every play must manipulate the line while managing the risk of more powerful moves.

Family Games Card Game Racing Relative Movement Hand Management

Players

3-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.18/5

Rating

6.40

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

In this light racing card game the players must try to maneuver their team of 2 racing cars into the podium positions over a series of races by playing cards to manipulate the line of vehicles to their advantage.

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In this light racing card game the players must try to maneuver their team of 2 racing cars into the podium positions over a series of races by playing cards to manipulate the line of vehicles to their advantage. Players can advance their position by playing cards that move their vehicles up the line or drag other team cars back. More powerful cards may require the roll of a dice and can result in great gains or disastrous engine blow-outs that can put cars out of the race and cannot rejoin the fray until the next race begins. Play is quick and simple with players required to play one action per turn, carry out its effects and drawing a card to end their turn. Each race will end after the draw deck is exhausted with one final turn taking place. Points are then awarded for positions 1-6 and a leaderboard is recorded. As the game evolves the leaderboard will be forever changing and in the final race the drivers will know what they have to do to earn the points in order to sit atop the final standings!

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Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
3–6
Play time
20 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.2/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Reiner Knizia

Artists

2
Niklas Böwer Rodger B. MacGowan

Publishers

4
Egmont Polska Gibsons GMT Games Die Spiegelburg

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