Grand Prix Rejects

26 August, 1988 Nigel Mansell has obeyed his doctor this time, and will not be participating in this Grand Prix. Martin Brundle, who is currently in the hunt for the World Sportscar Championship title with the Silk Cut Jaguar team, will be replacing him for this race. This will be a once-off appear...

On one hand, at least F1 will be free-to-air.

On the other hand...

5 August 1989 The McLarens are now separated by just 1 point, with Prost ahead. Both are on three wins and a second place apiece, but crucially for Prost, his next best result is 4th, whereas Senna's is 5th. After that, it's 9th for Prost, 14th for Senna. If Senna finishes in the top 4, Prost must ...

Thanks for that interesting bit of info, I never knew that. As for where I'll go for 1989, I'll probably pick a team at random again, this time from the teams that finish in the midfield. I'm toying with the idea of FISA expanding the points-scoring positions for 1989 as a result of lobbying from th...

Just after I did the British GP, I managed to find a working mod for the correct version of Silverstone. Anyway, onto the German GP! ======================================================================================= 22 July, 1988 This weekend sees a major shake-up in the pre-qualifying order. D...

On to Britain now, I don't really have any high hopes. First off, my Silverstone '88 mod failed, so I had to fall back on GPC's 1979 Silverstone mod. ======================================================================================= 8 July, 1988 Pre-qualifying was even tighter than at Paul Rica...

====================================================================================== 1 July, 1988 Zakspeed were back to running two cars, with Christian Danner returning to fill in for his injured compatriot. Pre-qualifying was tight - only 0.7 seconds covered the field. Andrea de Cesaris and Alex...

Dammit, after posting that race I'm kicking myself for not using the term "Montreal screwjob"! Anyway, Detroit '88 causes rFactor to crash because of some problem with its .MAS file. I'm kind of relieved because my laptop would have probably crapped itself. However, I've found a great subs...

What game are you using for your managerial career? I've tried playing GPM2 on my Windows 7 laptop without any success.

Best of luck.

Agreed. There's a 1989 mod where the McLarens are hopelessly uncompetitive, and I keep making tweaks to try and give them a necessary kick up the arse, without much success. :/ ======================================================================================= 10 June, 1988 Caffi's dismal fortun...

Do you have any plans to do simulations of any seasons beyond 2004? At least Christopherson's career ended on a high note.

To be honest, I've got it set at a difficulty that allows me to match my team-mate's pace, because I use a DS3 and not a wheel. For Mexico, I tried hitting the naturally-aspirated cars with a 5% power handicap, but as you'll soon see, it didn't go to plan...because I forgot it was more in the range ...

My fears weren't unfounded about Monaco taking a toll on my laptop. At times the game would dip below 10fps, and I instinctively reached for the F6 button to enable invulnerability. Pre-qualifying saw the loss of de Cesaris and Larrauri. Modena topped the timesheets, with me in second. Qualifying th...

======================================================================================= 29 April 1988 After a four week break since the Brazilian Grand Prix, we’re back on European soil. De Cesaris topped the pre-qualifying timesheet in his Rial, followed by Tarquini in the Coloni, Larrauri in the E...

So, rFactor's AI sometimes sucks at knowing when they're about to breach the lap limit for qualifying. :/ I also forgot to mention that I'm doing half-length races, and rFactor doesn't allow for two qualifying sessions. ================================================================================...

So, I guess I might as well take the plunge. Welcome to my career mode thread. I'm starting off in 1988, and after randomly picking one of five one-car teams to join, I've ended up with AGS. To begin with, I have to go through pre-qualifying until I pull myself out of it. Oh, and Ciaran O'Driscoll i...

Is this the right place to talk about doing some sort of career mode in rFactor using F1 mods? I'm starting off in 1988. I've had to randomly pick one team out of the five that year who only entered one car: AGS, Coloni, Dallara, Osella and Rial, and I drew AGS.

I was disappointed to see that nothing's been done in the area of controlling costs. Hell, even using common components such as brakes, suspension etc would have been a good start.

Sorry if my post is off-topic, but I noticed you're using Xkoranate. I'm trying to do my own private fantasy racing series (I've no plans as of yet to make it public) with Xkoranate v0.3.3, but when I try to load either the qualifying or race files from the \autoracing folder, I get these error: Thi...

I'm surprised he didn't get a RotR for Singapore '12. He seemed to have the crappiest luck there.

I'm new here, so what did Schumacher do to be #1 on that list? Was it Jerez '97?