RE: Updated Original Carset
Posted: 06.03.2023, 23:36
Hello
This is a revised version of the original GP2 carset with new driver/team values. I have worked very hard to try and make this as realistic as possible.
So, the reason I have done this is, while the original carset was stunning in it's ability to prescribe the actual field spread of the 1994 season, there were several GLARING issues:
DAVID COULTHARD
David Coulthard was a very talented driver. However, in 1994 he raced in eight races and scored 14 points. He was new and tentative, and was nowhere near as fast as the game indicated.
RELIABLITY
The 1994 season saw dreadful reliability for many teams. The game made the cars seem much more reliable than they really were. McLaren and Tyrrell were very fragile indeed!
OTHER POINTS
Some of the drivers are not accurate. For example, Ukyo Katayama is too powerful, while Martin Brundle is too weak.
While I have attempted to rectify these problems, there are issues with my own revised 1994 carset.
The main problem is how the game reads 'Car Failure Probability'. If I chose a value of 5000, I would assume both cars would, on the balance of it, retire from 5 races each. However, sometimes driver A retires ten times and driver B retires once. Benetton have a value of 6750. If that means Michael Schumacher retires more than Jos Verstappen that will skew the expected result. Other than that there are two minor points:
Gerhard Berger is a bit too competitive, that is deliberate, because if both Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher DNF from a race, I would want that it was Berger to claim the win, because he is the only person outside Schumacher, Hill and Mansell to actually win a race in 1994, and Mansell is not part of the carset anyway (!)
Bertrand Gachot is more likely to qualify ahead of Jean-Marc Gounon in this carset. The way I look at it, Gachot attended every grand prix of 1994, while Gounon only drove at about half of them, so... fair enough.
This is a revised version of the original GP2 carset with new driver/team values. I have worked very hard to try and make this as realistic as possible.
So, the reason I have done this is, while the original carset was stunning in it's ability to prescribe the actual field spread of the 1994 season, there were several GLARING issues:
DAVID COULTHARD
David Coulthard was a very talented driver. However, in 1994 he raced in eight races and scored 14 points. He was new and tentative, and was nowhere near as fast as the game indicated.
RELIABLITY
The 1994 season saw dreadful reliability for many teams. The game made the cars seem much more reliable than they really were. McLaren and Tyrrell were very fragile indeed!
OTHER POINTS
Some of the drivers are not accurate. For example, Ukyo Katayama is too powerful, while Martin Brundle is too weak.
While I have attempted to rectify these problems, there are issues with my own revised 1994 carset.
The main problem is how the game reads 'Car Failure Probability'. If I chose a value of 5000, I would assume both cars would, on the balance of it, retire from 5 races each. However, sometimes driver A retires ten times and driver B retires once. Benetton have a value of 6750. If that means Michael Schumacher retires more than Jos Verstappen that will skew the expected result. Other than that there are two minor points:
Gerhard Berger is a bit too competitive, that is deliberate, because if both Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher DNF from a race, I would want that it was Berger to claim the win, because he is the only person outside Schumacher, Hill and Mansell to actually win a race in 1994, and Mansell is not part of the carset anyway (!)
Bertrand Gachot is more likely to qualify ahead of Jean-Marc Gounon in this carset. The way I look at it, Gachot attended every grand prix of 1994, while Gounon only drove at about half of them, so... fair enough.