F1 Racing Championship

F1 Racing Championship
Developer(s)Ubi Soft Shanghai
Ubi Soft Milan
Publisher(s)Video System
Ubi Soft
Platform(s)Dreamcast, Game Boy Color, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Windows
Release
September 15, 2000
  • PlayStation
    • UK: September 15, 2000[2]
    • NA: September 26, 2000[1]
    Game Boy Color
    • PAL: November 10, 2000
    • NA: 2000
    Nintendo 64
    • PAL: December 8, 2000
    Dreamcast
    • PAL: January 19, 2001
    Windows
    PlayStation 2
Genre(s)Sim racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

F1 Racing Championship is a video game developed by Ubi Soft. Starring people and locations from the 1999 Formula One World Championship, it was released for several platforms during 2000 and 2001. At the time, it was facing steep competition by the ever-popular Grand Prix 3 and the rising F1-series by ISI. The sales were behind expectations. Reasons were a poor artificial intelligence and damage model and the bug-prone initial release. A patch to fix the reported issues was announced, but never released.

The soundtrack featured "Girl Don't Come" by American/British band Garbage; the main audio sounds in the menu were replicated in Racing Simulation 3, brought out a couple of years later, which again did not sell well due to licensing issues.

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  2. ^ "UK releases". Eurogamer.net. 2000-09-15. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  3. ^ "PS2 welcomes software boost". Eurogamer.net. 2001-03-23. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  4. ^ "Video Game release dates". The Pantagraph. March 29, 2001. p. 65. Archived from the original on April 8, 2023. Retrieved September 22, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.