Title Mistranslation
The game itself should have been called "Continental Circuits", but a misunderstanding between the US designers and the Japanese programmers led to the incorrect name "circus". On some fan-made websites, "Continental Circus" suffers from what is referred to as "Donkey Kong Syndrome" (literally Engrish - though Donkey Kong is not exactly a case of mistranslation, see its article for more details).
Some also believe that the decision to call the game "Continental Circus" was intentional, as the traveling F1 teams, cars, drivers as well as the spectacles of Formula One are sometimes referred to as the "F1 Circus" and there were a series of games entitled that by Human Entertainment.
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