It's.....ALIVE....
So, I decided to dive into trying the board game approach. I've been keeping my note book of ideas to try to make a dynamic field of cars - but decided the first step was to re-visit the "text only" conversion I'd worked on of the Red White And Blue racing board game.
After a couple days/evening of plunking around, I have the qualifying module mostly complete....I'm not really an expert at posting - I have screenshots but not sure how to attach them...will see if I can figure it out...
Here's a screen showing confirmation of track selection and driver set details:
