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PITLANE THE F-1 SIMULATION GAME

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I.Playing Equipment

21 Manoeuvre Cards per

car

6 Penalty Card KERS Card

5 Tire cards

1 speedometer

Slipstream ruler

Car card

meteorological

card

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Car control card

LOC ruler

Transparent set of

cards

Transparent crash ruler

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Planning

Look at your car on the track, and imagine the path you want it to follow. Select up to 4 cards

from your deck of manoeuvre cards that you believe will take your car over the desired path.

Place them in order, and face down, bellow your Car Control Card.

Everybody plans their move simultaneously. A time limit should be applied, e.g. 1 minute 30

seconds.

Movement

Once the planning is complete for all cars, the actual movement can begin. Starting with the

car that currently leads the race, the first planned manoeuvre card is turned and placed in

front of the car. If the player is satisfied with the move, the car is moved accordingly

(otherwise, see the following section about corrections). Now the second car places its first

planned manoeuvre card as above, and then the third car and so on until the first round of

planned cards has been played. In the same manner, the second planned manoeuvre card is

played for each car in turn, again starting from the lead car (be aware that the lead may have

changed in the previous round of movement). Finally the third and fourth rounds of

movement are played as above.

The race is a succession of game turns of planning and movement phases. The

movement phase consists of up to four rounds.

II. Driving the Car

The manoeuvre card is placed

at the front edge of the car

card, so that the two lines

match. The car is moved so

the rear edge matches the

manoeuvre card. Next, it is

Camels cars turn!

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III. Mistakes and Corrections

If you are unhappy with a card played during the movement phase, you can:

use your cars or drivers performance and replace the planned manoeuvre card with

a different one from your deck - costs 1 performance point. Recover the planned

movement card switched. You only have a limited number of performance points, and can

no longer use this action when they are finished.

employ braking. You can remove the current card and play in this round the next

planned card instead. If you cant do it (for example, you will crash with another car), skip

this round of movement (show your planned cards and remove any 1 card from it ). If you

didnt plan all your possible movements, you can play a brake without losing any card,

imagine taking away an imaginary empty card from one of the unplanned movement

rounds - costs 1 brake point. When you have used up all your brake points can you not

longer employ braking (but could possibly still hard brake).

Alternatively, If you dont have any performance/brake points remaining, you can:

make a correction (replace the planned

manoeuvre card with a different one from

your deck) in exchange for losing speed in

the next planning phase cost is as follows:

employ hard braking. The procedure is

exactly the same as with braking, but the

cost is 2 tire points instead of a brake

point.

If you move your car to the new position

you can no longer perform any of these

corrective actions, so decide what you are

going to do before moving.

IV. Fuel

Depending on your moves, you will have to pay 0-2 fuel points. This is based on the

manoeuvre cards actually played (after corrections, etc), rather than what you originally

planned.

The basic move for 0 fuel points is 3 cards. Using a fourth card costs 1 fuel point, and using a

curve of 60 costs an additional 1 fuel point.

When all the fuel points are expended, you will not be able to plan any move which would

cost any fuel points. To play a curve of 60 with no fuel, you are limited to 2 cards.

Fuel Cost

Cards Played 3+1

(Normal) 2+1 1+1

4, including a 60 2 pts n/a n/a

4 1 pts n/a n/a

3, including a 60 1 pts 2 pts n/a

3 0 pts 1 pts n/a

2, including a 60 0 pts 1 pts 2 pts

2 0 pts 0 pts 1 pts

1, including a 60 0 pts 0 pts 1 pts

Next Planning Phase

Base maximum number of cards

Extra cards using 1 fuel

point

0 3* +1*

1 2* +1*

2 1* +1*

3 0 +1

* Playing a 60 costs an additional 1 fuel in these cases

Corrections made

The expression 3+1 is used to describe

the maximum number of cards played for 0

fuel (3) and the maximum number of cards

played including a fuel cost (3 + 1 = 4).

Some events in the game such as accidents

may cause a loss of speed, e.g. 2+1 or

worse.

NOTE

This 4 options are called Driving Actions

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V. The Car and its Trajectory

The position of the car at a single point in

time is defined by two aspects: the interior

rectangle on the car card and its position as it

moves (movement card). We will call this

Trajectory. Trajectory is divided in two

moments, each moment counts as a single

event in order to get hit points.

The first moment (red): From the front

part of the cars rectangle to the end of

the red trajectory line (movement card)

Second moment (yellow): From the end of

the movement card to the front part of

the cars rectangle once its moved.

Leaving the track

If the trajectory passes over a non-asphalt

surface the car has gone off the track.

if the trajectory area goes off the asphalt, then the car went off the track

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Collisions

If the trajectory passes over any

obstacle (i.e. line of bollards, wall or

the interior rectangle of another car

card), or the car card is placed where

any part of its interior rectangle

overlaps an obstacle, the car has

collided with the obstacle.

VI. Leaving the Track

If you drive off the road surface, the consequences are applied immediately. There are three

things to do: lose hit points (you can lose damage points, or tire points at your own

election), determine if a loss of control has occurred and throw for malfunctioning dice.

Take Hit Points

Count how many moments

(of the two that divided a

movement) have been

played off the asphalt. This

includes passes over kerb,

grass, sand, gravel, etc.

You will lose 1 hit point per

moment, no matters what

the surface is. If the width

of the trajectory went

absolutely out of the

asphalt (OUT) , you will

receive an extra hit point.

Exception: half kerb

doesn't damage your

car.

We use a transparent set of

cards in that kind of

situations to see if the

trajectory line passes over

any obstacle or gone off the

track.

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Loss of Control Check (LOC)

After the first movement in which the car goes out of the asphalt, you must check if the car is

out of control. This depends on the surface driven over, and the penalty level.

Throw 1d6 and add to the roll any modifiers. Under normal circumstances, a loss of control

occurs if the combined total is at least 7 for kerb, or 6 for grass. However, if you have

penalties (driving restrictions) then examine the penalty card for the number that results in

a loss of control. For example, with a penalty card this is 6 or more for kerb and 5 or more for

grass.

Penalty Level

Surface

Kerb/Astroturf

Grass

Sand/Gravel

No penalty 7 6

no

Penalty 6 5

no

Penalty ++ 5 4 no

Penalty+++ 4 3 no

Penalty ++++ 3 2 no

Die modifiers for loss of control:

Hitting a bollard (crossing a line of bollards) is an additional +1 to the roll for loss of

control.

If you have any OUT token, you will receive an additional +1 to the roll for loss of

control.

If you are driving during wet track conditions, you will receive an additional +1 to the

roll for loss of control.

If you are driving with fuel overweight card, you will receive an additional+1 to the

roll for loss of control.

If the width of the trajectory

went absolutely out of the

asphalt (OUT) , you will

receive an extra hit point.

If you have any OUT token,

you will receive an additional

+1 to the roll for loss of control.

If you have any OUT token,

you will receive an additional

malfunctioning die.

The consequence of a loss of control is a rotation of your car over one of the front corners.

Roll a d6. The first roll is used to determine the rotation corner: 1-3 right corner, 4-6 left

corner. The second roll is used to determine the rotation angel: 1-3 is 30, 4-5 is 45, and 6

is 60. The car pivots clockwise if using the front right corner, or anticlockwise if using the

front left corner of the car.

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Malfunctioning dice: According to the surface where you are, you will roll a number of dice as soon as the car

leaves the track, to see if a temporary mechanical failure happens, we will name these dice

malfunctioning dice:

SURFACE DICE TYPE

Asphalt none 1-good

Kerb/Astroturf 1d6 2-regular

Grass 2d6 3-Bad

Gravel 3d6 4-Very Bad

If you have any OUT token, you will receive an additional die.

If, before returning to the track, the car passes through a worse surface, roll the dice

that are missing (eg running over kerb, roll 1d6 for mechanical failure, later also going

over grass, which are two dice, roll one 1d6 more as you rolled one before).

Align the oversteer ruler to the front edge of the car, and pivot around the corner

If as a consequence of loss of control your car crashes with something it will be

considered as a brush crash.

Note: remember the number you got in the throw because sometimes it can happen that

your car passes over a worse surface later, so in those cases an automatic loss of control

check will happen without needing to roll dice again. (example you have a penalty card and

you drive over kerb, throw 1d6 for loss of control, the result is 5 so nothing happens. Next

movement your car drives over grass, the loss of control check is done again and now you do

lose control, because loss of control chances with a penalty card are 5,6 and your previous

roll was 5). The same happens with malfunction rolls, you will only need to add extra dice,

not roll the previous dice again.

The result of the rolls indicates which cards are not going to be allowed in the current and

next game turns. All malfunctioning cards must be placed in view of all players, close to the

location of the malfunction on track.

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2) Determine how many

moments has gone out off

the track. Take 1 hit point

per moment you can lose

damage points or tire points

(at your own election)

1) Determine if the car

trajectory has gone off the

track( look for possible

crashes)

How to perform malfunction/loss of control roll during a game turn

Here you have an example with images of a game turn where its necessary to check for loss

of control and a malfunction.

How to proceed when you cant play a planned card due to a malfunction

You must play a card instead of the malfunctioning card if its one of the 3 first cards.

Performance point: Lose a performance point and change the card.

Correction: perform the correction procedure.

Play the next planned card as if it was planned for this round.

Important: If you pass through different surfaces in one move that takes you out of the

track, you will not do accumulative rolls, you just need to take into account the worst type

surface and roll dice for that surface type. (eg when you move your car and it passes over

both kerb and grass, you only roll 2d6 for grass)

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4) Throw dies: we have to roll

for loss of control, damage

and a malfunction, the first die

will count for loss of control,

the second die for damage and

malfunction, and die 3 and 4

for malfunction only. So here,

4 means loss of control (Loss

of control on grass is 5-6

because he has penalty level

but as he crashed with

bollards loc roll is

modified+1), 6 means 6

reliability points lost and also

malfunctioning of movement

card number 6, and 1&4

means the number of the

malfunctioning cards.

3) Look for the worst surface,

it will show you how many

malfunction dies you will

have to throw.

Order of dice in a multi die roll

White dice: LOC (Loss of control): remember to add the suitable modifier to the roll.

Grey dice (in case of any collision):it will show you the amount of car damage suffered,

and also it will show you and extra malfunctioning card.

Orange dice : Show you which cards will suffer malfunction during this game turn and

the next one.

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At the end of the current turn

you will move malfunction

cards one slot. Next turn you

will not be able to use this card

yet. At the end of the next turn

you will recover it.

In this example the player

decides to set 2 hit points only

on tires (from 5 to 3). His car

also suffers 6 damage point

due to a damage throw for

crashing with bollards

increasing his damage from 6

points to 12. When a car gets

6/12/18 damage points his

penalty level goes up one

level. Finally as he reach more

than 10 damage points he will

lose movement card showing

number 10.

Malfunction throw result was

1,4 plus 6 from the damage

die. So cards with numbers 4

and 6 will suffer malfunction

(note that none of the cars

have movement cards with

number 1). The player place

the card in the suitable slot.

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VII. Collisions

A collision occurs when the trajectory, or the car itself (interior rectangle) passes through an

obstacle. The obstacles in the game are other cars, bollards (for example on the inside of a

corner) and walls (tyre walls, stadium stands, etc). These are drawn on the circuit. Only

some of the collisions will modify your cars position (walls and other cars), in

those occasions we will look the kind of crash (brush, hard crash).

We will roll a number of d6 dice depending on:

The kind of crash (brush, hard crash

Modifiers (crashing with your car card, or crashing with your planned movement card)

Damage/malfunction Next round speed

Fences or bollards 1d6 3+1

Brush 1d6 2+1 agg

3+1 def

Hard Crash 2d6 2+1 agg

3+1 def

Wall +1d6 2+0

Crash with the

movement card

+1d6 -

When crashing into another car, the Aggressor is the one who crashes, and the

Defender is the one who is crashed into.

The result of the dice roll works in two ways:

As a temporary mechanical failure (malfunctioning dice)

The amount of points to add to reliability.

The defender will receive half of the damage. But the same malfunctioning cards.

Note: If the defender did a brake action (Hard Brake or Brake Point), he will receive the

same damage and speed as the aggressor.

For example:

Hard crash 2d6 reliability points, 4+6= 10 damage for the aggressor and 5 for the defender.

movement cards number 4,6 malfunctioning for the aggressor and defender.

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Brush Crash

If the angle formed by the front edge of the car and the wall or car is greater than 45, it is

a brush crash.

Following a brush crash the side of the moving car is aligned with the wall, or the car that has

been impacted using as a reference the collision point. Consult the crash table for details.

The car number 11(aggressor) crashes into

car 15 (defender) You can see on yellow the

crashing area, the angle between the front

side of car 11 and the lateral side of car 15.

Finally note the collision point (red point)

The aggressors car stops and is aligned to the

defender using as a reference the collision

point

Hard Crash

If the angle formed by the front edge of the car and the wall, or other car, is 45 or smaller,

it is a hard crash.

In case of a wall collision,

The front edge of the car is aligned to the wall

For each card left to play, the car will pivot over the next side of the car until no card is

left to play in that round.

Apply damage rolls and loss of speed for next round (see crash table for details)

Note: If as a consequence of a Brush or

Hard crash with any kind of wall your car is

aligned with an angle not 15 degrees

multiple, you can adjust its alignment to the

closest angle which fulfils that requisite.

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1. A hard crash collision with the wall

2.The car is aligned to the wall

3.The car will pivot over its next side

4.The car will pivot until no card is left.

In case of a car collision

Determine the collision point, use it as a rotation point (see the image bellow)

Rotate the defender car and aligns to the aggressors front edge

The defender car must then also perform a loss of control roll (see the image bellow)

Consult the crash table for details.

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1. Car 11 collides with car 15. pivot car 15

using the align point until his lateral side

is aligned with the front side of the

aggressor

2. Throw 1d6 and pivot the defender

using rotation point

3. Car 15 is rotated 30

How to align the car when it is your planned movement card which crashes first

we will use the final position determined for the movement card. (In the image the orange

rectangle determine the angle of the crash, a brush). Collision point determines where the

impact happens (and also determine end of the move) and where we have to place the car.

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In the image the orange rectangle determine

the angle of the crash, a brush

Collision point determines where the impact

happens (and also determine end of move)

and where we have to place the car

VIII. Recovery

Spin

Only 3 situations where you can spin:

After a crash (you can rotate the car any angle).

After a successful loss of control check.

At the beginning of a game turn if you car is out of the track. You must rotate at least

90 degrees. You are not allowed to rotate a smaller angle.

How to rotate the car?

Rotation is always using one of the front corners of the car (only if not possible to do that

because there is a wall in front of you and you can't rotate without crash, you will be allowed

to use any corner)

You lose always 2 tire points for spinning. Sacrifice one planned movement and

pivot the car around any corner of the car card to face the right way.

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IX. Penalty Cards

Penalty cards are basically driving restrictions that apply while the cause of the penalty

continues to exist. Some are recoverable. The cards are cumulative if you have one penalty

card and gain another, it is replaced with a penalty++ card. The levels range from penalty

to penalty++++.

Penalty+Penalty= Penalty ++//

Penalty++ + Penalty=Penalty+++

Penalty +++ + Penalty= Penalty++++

Usually the penalty cards, restrict the number of

corrections or hard brakings, also increase the

possibility of loss of control, and some adds extra

dices to the malfunctioning throws.

The situations that increase your penalty level are:

Tire wear when tire durability reaches 0 points. Add another penalty when degradation

also reaches 0 points

Damages Increase the penalty level each time the cars reliability level reaches 6/12/18.

Weather conditions driving with tires not suitable for rain/dry.

Cars with KERS system starts the race automatically with first penalty card(green).

The proper restrictions appear on every penalty card

Fuel Level

Fuel level determines which is the threshold at which the car suffers Fuel overweight

penalty. This value is different for each circuit and will be modified by the number of laps. Will

be modified also by specific bonus car. Before starting the race, each driver must show on his

speedometer which is his fuel level.

Penalty Icon

Before starting the race, each driver must show

on his speedometer which is his fuel level.

Fuel overweight penalty

It happens if you have more fuel points than

your fuel level value. In that situation you

will not be able to use performance/brake,

and you will have +1 in all LOC rolls. Penalty

disappears once your fuel points are equal or

less than your fuel level.

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X.Damage

During the game, you will get damage points. When it reaches some values you will lose

permanently certain cards (numbers with a circle in grey). Also when the damage points

arrives to 6/12/18 points, a penalty card is acquired. When reliability is at red you will

not be able to play more cards.

Lap consumption is the

amount of fuel needed to

complete a lap playing always

four cards and playing 60 turns

only when needed. Each track

has his own lap consumption.

You can see also fuel level basic

value, which is different for each

circuit. It will modified by car and

driver specific values.

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When tyre durability reaches 0, a penalty card is acquired, and any remaining and further

tyre points are now subtracted from degradation. Once degradation reaches 0 points, another

penalty card is acquired, and further tyre wear creates a risk of exploding the tyres. For every

tyre point you are required to lose after reaching 0 degradation, you must throw 1d6 a

result of six means a tyre explosion, and you are instantly out of the race (DNF).

If the track conditions are favourable (weather and tyre wear), you can use different

trajectory options depending on the type of tyres (showed with coloured circles in the tires

card, see the image) and you will be able to use performance/brake car points. These details

can be seen on the tyre cards for each compound.

When track conditions are adverse, or durability points have reached 0, these

optional trajectories can no longer be used, you may not use performance/brakes

car points, and planning turns may also be affected.

1. There are 2 tyre durability points remaining

XI. Tyres

Every tire compound has an equal number of durability and degradation points, as indicated

on the tyre card, and a wear rate which varies according to the weather. Every time your car

crosses into a new track sector (i.e. it crosses the thick, coloured, numbered line across the

track), you must reduce the tyre points on the car control card according to the wear rate.

For example, soft tyres in sunny weather lose 4 points at each white line. The temperature

also has an influence on the wear rate.

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2. In sunny weather, 4 tyre points are subtracted. 2 points takes durability to 0, so a penalty

card is earned. The remaining 2 points are taken off degradation.

Movement Options:

Some type of tyres allows you to select different trajectory options. Those options are shown

with coloured circles on the tyres cards. When you play the movement card you can place

your car on any of the coloured anchor points that are available. With medium tyres you can

use the yellow/red anchor points. With soft tyres you can use green/yellow/red anchor points.

Look at the tire's cards for details.

This bonus is only applied if:

The colored circle is shown on the tire card

The track conditions are suitable (ex, dry track for dry tires)

If your tyres are degradated you have to use the options available in the

degradated area.

If the car went out you only will have triangle colour trajectory.

Circle: When the car its inside the track (asphalt+ less than kerb)

Triangle: when the car its outside the track (touching kerb or more, grass and/

or gravel)

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XII. Wet Driving

Look for the suitable area on the tyres card, Rain if its heavy rain or wet if its soft rain.

You can see your trajectory options, shown with coloured circles or coloured triangles, and

your penalty level if it suffers any change. When its raining and you are driving with tyres

not suitable for rain, there are some compulsory cards you must play if you plan turns

(curves) this game turn, for example brake cards if you planned turn cards.

Sometimes we forget to do it, what happens then?

what happens if you have to play your last card, any of your first three cards was a

turn (curve) card and you didnt play any short brake?

You must correct/perform and change your last card for a short brake card

(the suitable card).

And if I cant play corrections or I dont have performance points?

Next round you will play 1+1

What happens if I only planned one card and I need to turn???

You can do it.

When the weather check (see XV) result is rain, the track becomes wet. When the weather

result is rain for the first time another roll is made to see if it is soft or heavy rain. The wet

track begins in that weather line area. The first value that isnt rain does not dry the track,

wet track conditions remain. Wet track conditions end with the second consecutive weather

check that isnt rain. The dry track begins in the line where you get that result.

Car 11 is on soft tyres, can

use any of the three coloured

trajectories (green, yellow,

red)

Car 15 is on medium tyres,

can use only two coloured

trajectories (red, yellow)

Car 21 is on hard tyres, can

use only one coloured

trajectory (red)

Num. Check: Check Result Track condition

1 Check: Rain Heavy Rain Rain Track

Soft Rain Wet Track

2 Check: Rain Heavy Rain Rain Track

Soft Rain Wet Track

3 Check: Clouds Wet Track

4 Check: Dry Track Clouds or Sun & Clouds

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XIII. Bonus movement

K.E.R.S.

Only available for some Cars.

If you use KERS you gain automatically your first penalty card(green).

The card used for your KERS bonus move has to be a card marked with the KERS symbol.

When fully charged, KERS allows you to play an extra manoeuvre card (the cards marked

with the kers symbol) after any movement, but before the next player places his next

planned card. This free card does not count towards fuel usage.

Once used, the KERS system loses all energy, and must be recharged before any next use.

Each time you play a short brake, medium brake, or use a brake point correction, some

energy is recovered, charging your KERS according to the table below.

Action Recovery Rate

Medium Brake 1 pt

Short Brake 2 pt

Brake Points 3 pt

Once KERS is at 6 points of energy, it may be used again, but not in the same round in which

it was charged to full (i.e. not immediately after charging it). You cannot store more than 6

points. As soon as it is used, it is reset to 0 points.

The KERS system is not allowed during the first two rounds (of the movement

phase) of the opening game turn.

Kers on wet track:

If you are using dry tires,if you play turn cards you

must play a brake card. This card dont charges

Kers. If you play more than one brake card, then

you can use one of them to recharge kers.

The KERS system

Car 11 plays a movement card,

after car 21 plays a movement card

plus and extra card (with KERS

symbol on it) using KERS.

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Slipstreaming

If you finish any movement round behind another car, inside the slipstreaming area, and at

the beginning of the round you were behind that car, you can play a free left or right

overtaking manoeuvre cad. To be considered inside the slipstreaming area, it is only

necessary to touch any part of the slipstream marker with your car (interior rectangle).

Your cars angle must be the same as that of the car you are trying to slipstream.

However slipstreaming is not possible if :

the player has been over grass/gravel.

has made brake/correct/ oversteer.

has suffer any type of collision or loss of control during.

has planned less cards than the player who is in front of you .

Slipstream is limited to only one use per game turn.

Slipstreaming is not available during the first game turn.

note: slipstream is played after all cars has played the current game round.

To be considered inside the slipstreaming

area, it is only necessary to touch any part

of the slipstream marker with your car

(interior rectangle).

you can play a free left or right overtaking

manoeuvre cad.

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XIV. Pit Stops

Within the pit area, movement cards are used differently. Movement will be from one point to

another point. The amount of points you will be able to move will depend on whether you're

in the pit lane or in the in/out area of the pit area.

You can use 4 cards without losing fuel points.

When you calculate fuel consumption you don't count cards played inside the overlapping

area.

Overlapping area: Cars inside it are

treated as invisible, overlapping is

allowed (it means no crashes

between cars). This overlapping is

allowed for the entire length of the

overlapping area, from the entry

white line until the exit white line.

Once you reach the overlapping area

exit, it will again not be allowed to

overlap without a crash.

Movement:

In/out area: 2 points movement per

card planned.

Pitlane area: 1 point movement per

card planned.

To be considered inside the over-

lapping area, your trajectory must

touch the entry line (yellow) and your

car (interior rectangle) must touch

any point position. If that happens it

means you are entering boxes.

Cars crossing overlapping area

without touching the entry line

are not considered inside. Cannot

crash with cars entering boxes but

can crash with other cars crossing

overlapping area.

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Cars crossing overlapping area

touching the entry line but not

touching any point position are

not considered inside. Cannot

crash with cars entering boxes but

can crash with other cars crossing

overlapping area.

Once the car reach the movement

point in front the pit box it will move

sideways automatically to enter.

You can move 2 points per movement card

while your car is inside the in/out area

When your car enters pitlane area

you can only move one point per card

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Once the pit stop is finished exit

following the exit arrow onto the next

movement point.

If the last movement card place you on the black movement point it means you are on the

exit of the overlapping area.

You must play your next card as usual. Its allowed to put the car sideway in any place.

Length of stop

You must decide before entering the pitlane, the number of fuel points you want to refuel.

You can see how many game rounds you must stop.

Throw 1d6 to know if the stop is fast or slow and look the table below, game rounds could be

modified. Finally receive the right amount of fuel, reliability, performance and brake points.

Having planned your stop, you must remain stationary in the box for the number of rounds

showed on the table. Consult the table to determine how many fuel points, reliability points,

performance points and brake points you recover as a result of your stop.

Example: the car decides to refuel 7 fuel

points. The basic value is 4 game rounds

stopped. Throw 1d6 result is 5. Pit stop will

last 5 game rounds. Car will refuel the desired

number of fuel points 7 plus will repair 3

damage points.

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XV. Grand Prix Weekend

1.Determine the weather for qualification

Weather:

Look for the correct meteorological card, throw 2d6 to determine in which month

the race is. Sum the 2d6 together and take it as the number of the month of the year

(3=march, 8=august, etc).

Throw 1d10 and consult the green flag ranges (weather for the start) matching the colour

with the current year season.

Throw 1d4 to establish the qualifying sector (if using the advanced system).

Temperature:

Roll a d10 and consult the temperature table, following the colour that matches with the

current year season. Notice that temperature may affect tyre wear.

2.Consider the strategy for the GP

Choose the right tyres and the fuel load. Identified your fuel level value (see the specific

value of the track and apply car and driver modifiers ).

Fast Method: For each fuel point above the fuel level value lose 2 qualifying point. For

each fuel point below the green, earn 1 qualifying point

Advanced method: For each fuel point above the fuel level value lose 1 qualifying

point. For each fuel point below the green, earn 1 qualifying point.

Example:

If you are racing in August you will look for the

ranges inside the red areas.

First roll 9= Rain at the start, we roll again to see

what type of rain (3, Heavy rain)

Second roll 9= Hot weather wear +1

Determining the weather and the temperature

Here you will find all the necessary info to prepare a Grand prix. It includes weather, fuel

load, tyres, qualification, race start and pit stops. There are two qualification systems (Fast

and advanced). If you use the advanced method, qualification will be played as a normal

game turn where you try to plan and play the maximum number of cards and and get as far

as possible. If you use the fast method, you must only add or subtract modifiers and finally,

add the result of a die roll.

3.Determine the final qualification value

Fast method: Take the qualifying score from the car control card, add/subtract the

adjustments for fuel load and tyre compound (marked on the tyre cards).

Advanced method: Take the qualifying score from the car control card and add/subtract

the adjustments for fuel load.

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5.Weather change:

Consult the meteorological table for the track. The weather can evolve with a roll of 1d10 (red

numbers) do this twice to see how it changes overnight before the race. Consult the

temperature table roll 1d10 if the result is the same temperature then remains as it is. If the

number is smaller than your actual temp level, it will go down. If its bigger it will go up.

6.Race Day:

If the qualifying was on dry track:

In case of wet track, the option to change to wet tyres or rain tyres is allowed.

If the qualifying was on wet/rain track:

In case of dry weather, the option to change to dry tyres is allowed.

7.Race Start:

Each player plans his first game turn. You must use the starting cards showed in the

movement cards (start symbol) in the mentioned order. However, you can risk a better start

and try not to use them. To do this, throw 1d6 to validate each of the illegal cards. For a roll

of 4-6 the card is valid, but for 1-3 you must play a short brake instead.

8.Sectors:

Each time your car enters a new sector of the

circuit, you must pay tyre points according to

the weather and the type of tyre (shown on the

tyre card). Whenever the race enters a new

sector, 1d10 is thrown to see evolution of the

weather. Temperature is only checked once per

lap (at the start of the lap).

Exception: The first time the race crosses a

sector line will not be necessary to throw any

die (first pass into first sector of the track)

9.Pit stops:

When you stop, decide the amount of fuel you want to refuel and wait the number of

movement rounds you need to receive the right amount of fuel, damage, performance and

brake points. You can also change tyres.

4.Qualification lap:

Fast method: As point 3 but throwing 1d6 and adding it to the qualification value. the

car with the highest value occupies the pole. In case of a tie, throw 1d6 for each player.

Advanced method: the qualification value determines the number of cards that you

must plan. The track sector designated at random previously is used as a qualifying

area. The car is placed anywhere on the start of this area, and planning commences.

The driver who comes further will start from P1, the driver who comes next furthest will

start from P2, and so on.

Tires:

The use qualy points is disable. You can use performance, brake points, as usual but depen-

ding on the type of tires you can:

Soft tires: you can use performance as a brake points and the opposite.

Medium tires: you can use performance as a brake points.

hard tires: you can use performance brake points a s usual

Corrections and hard brakes:

Each time you run one of these actions need to delete the last card planned.

Penalty Level:

Disable, You can use as many perf/brake points as you want or correct/hard brake as many

time as you desire.

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APENDIX I. ADVANCED QUALIFYCATION SYSTEM IN DETAIL

1.Determine the weather for qualification

See XV.1

Establish the qualifying sector.

2.Consider the strategy for the GP

Choose the right tyres and the fuel load. Identified your fuel level basic value (see the

specific value of the track and apply car and driver modifiers ).

Advanced method: For each fuel point above the fuel level value lose 1 qualifying point.

For each fuel point below the green, earn 1 qualifying point.

We are racing on the orange track

variant, our fuel level basic value

will be 3. we must still apply car and

driver modifiers.

Fuel level: basic value is 3. Each

car has 1 to fuel level.

The final value will be 2.

You must show it on your

speedometer.

Calculate qualification value

( number of card that each driver

can plan):

Qualifying value-(fuel load for the

race-fuel level)

Dragon motors:

14-(5-2)=11 cards

Four Stars Team:

12(4-2)= 10 cards

There are two qualification systems (Fast and advanced). If you use the advanced method,

qualification will be played as a normal game turn where you try to plan and play the

maximum number of cards and get as far as possible. Your qualification value will show you

how many movement cards you can plan. Players will play a previous planning phase, they

will have 2 minutes to plan as many cards as his qualification value.

3.Determine the final qualification

value

Advanced method: Take the qualifying

score from the car control card and add/

subtract he adjustments for fuel load.

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4.Qualification lap:

Advanced method: the qualification value determines the number of cards that you must

plan. The track sector designated at random previously is used as a qualifying area. The car is

placed anywhere on the start of this area, and planning commences. The driver who comes

further will start from P1, the driver who comes next furthest will start from P2, and so on.

Tires:

The use qualy points is disable. You can use performance brake points, as usual but

depending on the type of tires you can:

Soft tires: you can use performance as a brake points and the opposite.

Medium tires: you can use performance as a brake points.

hard tires: you can use performance brake points a s usual

Corrections and hard brakes:

Each time you run one of these actions need to delete the last card planned.

Penalty Level:

Disable, You can use as many perf/brake points as you want or correct/hard brake as many

time as you desire.

Planning:

Dragon Motors plans 11 card, he

uses soft tyres.

Four Stars Team plans 10 cards, he

uses soft tyres.

Both placer plan together

simultaneously and counter clock.

First driver shows his card sequence.

Remember, he is using soft tyres so

he will use any of the three coloured

trajectory options.

Also he can use performance as

a brake points and the opposite.

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. and plays instead one card from

his hand (30 turn). Finally pays 1

performance point as a cost for the

action.

His fourth card is a 30 turn, if he

plays it he will go out of the track, so

his qualification lap will end here.

Decides to use 1 performance

point ,and play instead a 60 turn

(note that the card was planned as a

second movement but was removed

and changed by other card. As he

did this using performance points,

He recovers the card, so it returns

to his hand.

Black car starts, plays one

straight and moves his card

to its next position. Then

plays his second card, a 60

turn, to avoid a crash

decides to use a

performance point, remove

current card.

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His last card is a short brake. He

doesnt have performance points. As

he is using soft tyres, he can do a

performance action paying instead 1

brake point. Remove the short brake

and play instead an overtake card.

Doing this he can win some more

centimetres.

Soft tires: you can use performance

as a brake points and the opposite.

This is the final position for his qualification round. Green marks shows where he used

performance points. White mark show where he used brake points to pay performance action

due to usage of soft tyres.

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Second driver show his card

sequence.

Remember, he is using soft tyres so

he will use any of the three coloured

trajectory options.

Also he can use performance as

a brake points and the opposite.

Note: this car has performance and

brake skill equal 0, so only will use

that bonus using drivers perf/brake

skill.

His fifth card is a right

overtake, so to avoid going

out the track, decides to use

hard brake action. He remove

the current card planned, as a

cost for the action remove

also the last planned card of

his sequence of cards. Finally

he will play instead the next

card planned, a long straight.

Again decides to use a hard

brake, remove the planned

card (30 turn), as a cost for

the action remove also last

card planned of his sequence

of cards. Finally he will play the

next planned card a 60 turn.

As he doesnt have more

movement cards, his

qualification will end here.

Note: If he would have made a correction, would have done the same as using performance,

to change the planned card by one from his hand. As a cost for this action, would have

eliminate the last card of the planning sequence. Contrary to what happens when using

performance pts, he had not recovered the card replaced.

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This is the final result. Black car wins qualification round.

NOTE

Playing using advanced qualy system will increase playing time in 20/30 minutes . We

recommend only if you have enough time to do it. In real racing qualifying is usually done the

day before the race. Our experience during advanced qualy playtestings was that we used to

do qualy before dinner and once we had eat the race started. (Avoid ketchup spots on track

while driving!!!)

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30R

Long str.

45R

empty

Round

4 3 2 1

30R

Long str.

Med.br.

45R

Round

4 3 2 1

3 Cards planned 4 Cards planned

NORMAL PLAY

You can find here blocks diagrams explaining driving actions and how is solved card

malfunction .

For more detail about Driving Actions see III.Mistakes and Corrections.

For more detail about Malfunctions see VI.Leaving the track/Malfunctioning dice.

CORRECTION/PERFORMANCE

30R

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Round

4 3 2 1

30R

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45R

empty

Round

4 3 2 1

Planned 3 cards

Replace this

box

Short str.

all examples assume 3+1.

you can apply each example to

2+1 by removing box #4, and for

1+1 by removing boxes #3 and #4,

etc. If less cards are played this is by

choice or imagined lack of fuel.

APENDIX II. DRIVING ACTIONS

The cost of using performance is the loss of 1 performance point.

The cost of using a correction is the loss of speed in next planning round.

For more details see III. Mistakes and corrections.

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MALFUNCTION

30R

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45R

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Round

4 3 2 1

Planned 3 cards

This card

malfunctions

choose to

1) correct

2) discard

30R

Long str.

45R

empty

Round

4 3 2 1

Short str.

30R

Long str.

45R

empty

Round

4 3 2 1

empty

Stacks drops down,

you play the next

round so round 3

becomes 2 and

round 4 becomes 3.

(you play 1 round

less in total)

BRAKE/HARD BRAKE option1

(to avoid crashing with other cars)

30R

Long str.

45R

Long str.

Round

4 3 2 1

Planned 4 cards

Need to brake this

card, so choose 1 box

to remove still to play

(already played box 1)

and fill it with the

brake

30R

Long str.

45R

Round

4 3 2 1

BRAKE

(no card pl)

Long str.

Box

removed

You dont play any card on

game round 2. Stacks moves

up, so previous round 2

becomes 3 and previous round

3 becomes 4, previous round 4

card is removed

(you play 1 round less in total)

Available if you planned your maximum base number of cards plus extra fuel card

(planning 4 cards with speed 3+1,planning 3 cards with speed 2+1,...) and you need to avoid

a crash with other cars. The cost of using a brake action is the loss of 1 brake point. The cost

of using a hard brake is the loss of 2 tire points.

For more details see III. Mistakes and corrections.

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BRAKE/HARD BRAKE option 3

normal situations

30R

Long str.

45R

Long str.

Round

4 3 2 1

Planned 4 cards

Need to brake this

card, so choose 1

box to remove still

to play (already

played box 1) and

fill it with the brake

30R

Long str.

45R

Round

4 3 2 1

BRAKE

Long str.

30R

Long str. 45R

Round

4 3 2 1

BRAKE

(no card pl)

Long str.

Box

removed You remove previous round

2 card. Stacks drops down,

you play the next round

card planned, so previous

round 3 becomes 2 and

previous round 4 becomes

3. No card is played in

round 4

(you play 1 round less in

total)

BRAKE /HARD BRAKE option 2

To avoid crashing with other cars

45R

45R

empty

empty

Round

4 3 2 1

Planned 2 cards

Need to brake box

of round 1, normal

brake procedu-

re,choose a box to

put the brake and

adjust the stack

45R

45R

empty

Round

4 3 2 1

BRAKE

(no card pl)

empty

Box

removed

BRAKE

(no card pl)

You dont play any card on

game round 1. Stacks moves

up, so previous round 2

becomes 3 and previous round

3 becomes 4.

Available if you planned less cards than your base maximum number of cards plus

extra fuel card (planning 3 or less cards with speed 3+1,planning 2 or less cards with

speed 2+1,...)and you need to avoid a crash with other cars.

Always available.

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ILLEGAL PLAY

empty

60R

45R

30L

Round

4 3 2 1

Planned 3 cards

starting on round 2

this is illegal since all planned moves

must be continuous from

the bottom of the stack to the last

planned action, every box in the

sequence must have an action in it

by the end of the turn.

60R

45R

Round

4 3 2 1

30L

empty

Legal planning