Heat: Pedal to the Metal is a race car board game

Asmodee’s Days of Wonder have a new 1960s professional sports car racing game set board game from Asger Harding Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pedersen.

The hand management system has players competing as race car drivers, fighting to cross the finish line first and without overheating in the effort to do so.

In Heat: Pedal to the Metal, the game can be a single race or a whole championship struggle in which an entire season is done in the night. Players modify their cars with upgrades and tweaks, trying to adapt to weather and road conditions that change race-on-race.

The game suits 1 to 6 players, meaning it can also be solo’d. If all goes well, gamers lucky enough to be at Essen Spiel in October will be able to get their hands on it then, and the rest of us must wait until later into the autumn.

The €65 box contains;

• 2 giant double-sided boards (4 tracks),
• 4 Track cards,
• 6 race cars with matching Gear pawns,
• 6 player mats,
• 72 Speed cards,
• 48 Heat cards &
• 37 Stress cards,
• 114 Upgrade cards,
• 35 Sponsorship cards,
• 10 Legends cards,
• 10 Event cards,
• 1 Legends mat,
• 1 Championship mat,
• 6 Weather Tokens,
• 12 Road Conditions Tokens,
• 2 Press Corner Standees,
• 1 Scorepad,
• 2 Rules booklets.

The game’s remarkable art is by Vincent Dutrait.

Asger Harding Granerud and co-designer Daniel Skjold Pedersen told press;

When we first started working on Heat: Pedal to the Metal in 2018 our motivation was to make a Formula One racing game that could reach a wide family audience, while remaining interesting to gamers. Not a convoluted betting game, but a racing game where first across the finish line wins. This meant we couldn’t create a rules behemoth that would run long, it had to be done within an hour,”

Quick Links

• Days of Wonder: Heat: Pedal to the Metal.