Grid Start

Welcome to GRID START, a challenge to your driving skills and the speed of your reflexes under pressure.  You are an aspirant to the ultimate accolade of being the Grand Prix Champion of the Professional class.  You can however attempt the championship of the Novice and Amateur sections first.  You will be competing against 23 other cars and the competition is going to be tough.

You are driving a six gear Formula 1 car.  The secret of driving a racing car is in the rapid changing of gears, the instinctive knowledge of the maximum speed at which a partiuclar ben can be safely taken and the opportune use of the brakes and the boost.

The Grand Prix circuits are:

SILVERSTONE
BRANDS HATCH
AUTODROMO HERMANDS
OSTERREICHRING
HOCKENHEIM

Each circuit is faithfully reproduced.

You are advised to do several practic laps before entering the competition.  Learn the course throughly so that you know instinctively which bend to expect.  Learn to position your car to take advantage of the bend.  Your car is fitted with Boost.  There is only a limited amount of Boost available.  Use it sparingly to overtake and to get ahead and stay ahead.

LOADING:

Please ensure that the computer is switched OFF and switched ON again before you load this disc.  The disc may get corrupted if the computer is reset only and not switched OFF.

Insert your disc in the drive when the computer asks for WORK BENCH.  Amiga 1000 owners will need to load KICK START 1.2.  Click the Grid icon twice.

Please ensure that the disc is WRITE PROTECTED and the extra disc drive is disconnected.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Press Joystick Fir Button (F.B.) to exit the title screen and load the rest of the program.  You will be shown six tracks and the menu.  You can move the highlight using the J/S.

SKILL
NOVICE,AMATEUR or PROFESSIONAL.  Press F.F. to change the skill level.

TRACK
The track number will change when the F.B. is pressed.

PRACTICE
Select PRACTICE or COMPETE by pressing F.B.

DONE
When satisfied, press F.B. to start the game.

COMPETE
You can select the track order.  When you have completed the required number of laps the high score table will show your time, points and championship placing.  Press F.B. to display the track screen and make the next track choics.

PRACTICE
You can practice any track for as long as you like.  You may quit by pressing ESC key and return to the track display screen.  The correct selection of gears is very important.  You may have to change gears two or three times to take a bend correctly.  Learn To apply minimum abount of braking at the right time.

CONTROLS:


             Firebutton OFF                Firebutton ON

               Accelerate                    Change Up

         Left              Right      Left               Right

               Brake                         Change Down

Learn to apply the gears quickly as pressing the FIRE BUTTON also gives the BOOST.

Program By:  D.COWHAM
Graphics By: S:REDPATH
(c) 1987 ANCO SOFTWARE LTD.,U.K.