F1 Racing Championship is often said to be one of the few PAL exclusive N64 games, but that’s not entirely true. F1 Racing Championship also got a release in Brazil, which is where things get interesting. The name of the TV signals in Brazil is PAL-M, but is actually far closer to NTSC than PAL. Brazilian consoles were made so they outputted in PAL-M, but their cartridges just contained the North American NTSC version – so the Brazilian release of F1 Racing Championship is actually an NTSC cartridge – probably one missing from many “complete” NTSC collections.

As for the game itself, it does the same as F1 World Grand Prix II: stats changes. This is a sequel to Monaco Grand Prix: Racing Simulation 2. The only significant change is that they now have a license for the racers and cars, so you can see the real names instead of the slightly altered versions. They don’t seem to have the rights to use the names of tracks, and I noticed an oddity in that there was one called “Europe” with a flag of the Netherlands. I looked it up, and while there was a race called the “European Grand Prix”, the track itself is the Nürburgring in Germany.

Poor

It’s a good game, but we’ve seen it all many times before. F1WGP2 suffered for being the same as its predecessor, and so does this.

Martin Kitts, N64 Magazine #47. Review Score: 72%

Remake or remaster?

Formula 1 games would continue to evolve.

Official ways to get the game.

There is no official way to play F1 Racing Championship.