New Track for Formula D: Florida/Chicago

Asmodee has announced a new track for the recently released Formula D, one that marries a racing track in Florida and a neighborhood in Chicago to emphasize the dual nature of the new game. The Chicago half of the expansion is all about street racing through East Park:

This track offers an urban terrain which alternates between curves and straight lines. This mad race in the heart of city traffic will give pilots a chance to drive along the impressive Aon Center, one of the tallest skyscrapers of the city, to cross the Lake Shore East Park and its three tightly woven lanes (be careful about collisions!), and then rush along the inner port before finally crossing two vertigo-inducing bridges.

The other half of the expansion takes you on the nearly 6 km long Sebring track in Florida. (The image above shows a track still under development; believe it or not, you don’t have just one giant space following the pit.) The real Sebring race taks 12 hours as drivers wend their way through the tricky curves, then blast down the straightaways. Ideally, your games won’t take this long.

Formula D: Florida/Chicago is due in late January or early February. This game has been added to Gone Cardboard.



Posted by W. Eric Martin on Nov 19, 2008 at 09:30 AM in Game NewsGame Announcements / 1292

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"believe it or not, you don’t have just one giant space following the pit”

I was wondering about that, while looking at the pic

Posted by Surya Van Lierde on Nov 19, 2008 at 10:59 AM | #

It doesn’t seem to be as accurate as some of the older tracks.  Sebring is one of my fav’s but I might have to pass.

Posted by Brandon Pennington on Nov 19, 2008 at 11:46 PM | #

Looks pretty accurate to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sebring_International_Raceway.svg
But I would have preferred the really old version:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Sebring_International_Raceway_-_Historical_(1952).svg

Posted by Håkan König on Nov 20, 2008 at 02:46 AM | #

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