Grand Prix World (20+ years old)

[wolf1455]

Nice to watch while we wait. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfmhxCgBugU

[wolf1455]

I havent played a better racing manager game since then so its time, right. I allready found ideas for mods/patches in the first 30m like lvl of engine sponsors/providers and more.

[Foley48]

GPW is a great game, I especially like how the negotiations work for suppliers and sponsors for your next season.

And the fact you actually have to build and fund next seasons car

[ionONE (racedepartment)]

loved that game, especially going into the new seasion ... doing the first qualy run in australia to see where my team stands on the grid ;)

[dohf]

Pedro Diniz wasn´t only a thing, he was way overpowered for any balancing. Especially when you negotiated him to pay even more while he developed to get better. I´ve certainly won the majority of my championships in that game with pay-drivers.
Also a nice bit of F1-history, as Diniz pretty much was the moment in time when pay-drivers became something entirely different. In the late 80ies it was pretty much guys who paid 6digits of their own personal money for a shot at (pre-)qualifying the car and, if he was lucky, start from the very back of the grid in a car that lasted for a couple of laps. Then the field shrank, and for a short period in time there was hardly any paying driver. In came Diniz, the first of the new style, with multi-million-dollar backing by a national oil company who wanted someone of their own driving in F1 (and the sponsor, rather than the teams themselves, searched for talent, with the limitation that it had to be someone from their own country/region/sometimes even political alignment). 20 years later, and even Alonso gets his money from Santander rather than McLaren.

[marejov83]

Love this game! So many great moments.

[Tig_green]

Was a very nice game indeed. I think I still have the original copy of this somewhere. It has compability issues with modern OS so couldn't play it anymore.

Downside was also that it lasted only 10 seasons. I'm happy that MM has unlimited seasons! I also got an idea that GPW was pretty hard to mod, because user made stuff wasn't that good as far as I remember. I hope MM will be more open.

Looking at this game it's amazing how long it took to get a new proper racing management simulation into developement.

[Foley48]

Originally posted by Tig_green:

Looking at this game it's amazing how long it took to get a new proper racing management simulation into developement.

There have been some really promising ones in development over the last few years but they either turned out a train wreck or were abandoned. Will be nice to finally see one completed

[ṔU̡И͞ISHE̵D ̧S̀И̡AK͏E]

I won the championship in 1999 with Minardi with Shinji Nakano.

[SomeDeadGuy]

Got the original disk for this game. Still works great on my old XP laptop as long as you set the colours to 16 bit. Mods for every season up to 2013 last time I checked and I belive there is a 2014 one in development. Played so many times as so many different teams. Even won the championship with Caterham once, although it took about three seasons of grinding lol

[wolf1455]

:o)

[ternau]

saison 2016 mod are available for the game ... www.gpracegames.com

[Tig_green]

Thanks, I might check that out while waiting for MM. Depends if the mod is any good. A for effort at least I guess.

[Tig_green]

Is anyone tried the 2016 mod... got it working with my old laptop. But there is a problem... when I'm choosing what driver to follow they aren't what they are suppose to be. If I choose for example Renault it's Red Bull (not sure what it was but not Renault either way) etc. I remember this was the problem also with previous mods...I would call this game braking.

Also, isn't it possible to mod current points system to this game?

[Norell]

I am sooooo old...

[wolf1455]

Im older