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Thanks for the review on Total. What I meant by "hadn't entered F1" was that, at least in this Grand Prix World save, they never became a fuel supplier option that could be selected. In some saves suppliers can enter and leave the sport (say, Toyota entering, or Bridgestone leaving), so Total could have entered, which would have given everyone another fuel option. That hasn't happened so far, which ... a bit unfortunate. Had I used, say, the 2000 or 1999 mods, Total would have been an option from the start.

@@jose21crisisMS Yeah, had Total was in the 2001 season, this would be a better option than Elf.

That's a bit weird. Did you change anything, like the F1 Challenge exe name? If memory serves, that Fixer only works when the F1 Challenge exe is "F1 Challenge Online.exe". Other than that, double check you are putting the inputs it asks. I do need to update and reupload it at some point, that one was an old version that I made for other people to test, not a true final version. There's some stuff I do need to check out as well regarding the fixer.

It was an experiment that was supposed to make it sound better. Clearly, it backfired

Thank you. First, mechanical failures should be set to Time Scaled, so that regardless of how long the race is, mechanical failure chance scales properly. Now, engine and brake failure chances can be adjusted by using less cooling and more engine RPM, so you could do that. For the engine, it is fine as long as you don't get an engine overheating warning. Another way to increase the chance of enging failures is to go to the engine.ini on SeasonData/Vehicles and going to the team and car you are using and slightly reducing the LifetimeAverage value. However, that will also affect your teammate.

@@jose21crisisMS Thanks! And what AI strenght and damage percentage are you using for Monaco? Im using the same DM monaco version and I notice that they are very slow even at 103-105%, but if I increase difficult AI cars can crash a lot, specially at the Rascasse corner.

@@JordiGambinSerrano I had to cheat a little bit to get the AI to work. What I did was increase the grip the AIs have (increasing the AIGripMult line in the tire file, the tbc in the SeasonData/Vehicles folder, I used about 1.35), lowering the AI Corner Grip Usage line in the PLR (to about 0.85) and then tweaked the difficulty. Monaco is ALWAYS annoying in F1 Challenge, no matter the version. It requires quite a bit of tweaking to get it to work.

The 2005 mod I used, 2005 RH, had car sounds that were a bit too V8-ish for my liking. So instead, I used the V10 sounds I had in my version of the game for my Mercedes engine, which apparently were from the MP4-14. Small difference, but more accurate than it being a V8

I have a feeling that, aside from terrible performance, reliability is going to sink Jaguar. They already lost one of their biggest chances to score points. They'll another shot at ... Argentina, Canada or Britain if it rains there.

@@jose21crisisMS something i don't like about this game is that there's always that one team terribly underperforming. It's inevitable since car performance depends entirely on your designer, and there simply aren't 11 level-3+ designers. Also, nobody every signs Ferrari or Mercedes PUs. Also, have you ever noticed that, the more you scramble the market on the first year, the quicker Ferrari and McLaren's performance falls off? The game, once it can't sign again his designer, simply settles for any other one, even level 1, and that means from year 3 onwards that team is absolutely nowhere Still, this game has some better mechanics than F1 Manager 2023

@@acescheiljoney6467 In this particular case, Jaguar is performing terribly because ... well, they don't have a designer, so they are missing out on a lot of performance. And yeah, designers and technical directors just don't improve fast enough to keep up. As for the PUs, I think that's because the AI tries to go for the higher R&D rating supplier first over the higher Cash rating supplier, and since Ford and the other suppliers have higher R&D and lower Cash than the others, they try to sign for those. At some other playthrough I have to experiment with modding the game and giving Ferrari and Mercedes higher R&D to see if the AI goes for them more often.

The Superior Italian team

Join the F1 Challenge Discord server, the game is on the download-links channel. The link for the Discord server is on the description, I updated it a while ago to have that link.

You mean the ones during qualifying? If so, there's an utility called akoVCR that let's you open the F1C replay files and see the sector splits for each lap of every driver. Then I just calculate the split and edit it in the video.

Thank you. Truth be told I'm amazed at the amount of views it's getting

Thank you

Thank you. With F1 Challenge being so simple to mod, relatively speaking, it was a good sim to test these kinds of things.

Thank you. I will definitely try to implement those mini tracks in future videos when you release them, as they look awesome.

This is very much a case of "I should be dead right now". Still need a minor miracle for this to work and get Alonso the championship, but it is a bit more doable now. The track changing conditions, I always try to keep an eye out of the Wind to see if it has any effect on the weather, I do remember Brazil taking ages to change conditions ... which can be good at times. AIs sure goof up a lot in terms of strategy, it has kept us on the chase at least for now, and it just needs to happen 2 more times.

Some reports say he met with Benetton's staff about signing a contract. Nothing specific just yet, and I guess we'll get more info as time passes by.

Not impossible, but making up a 27 point gap in 4 races is ... going to be tough. DC only has to score 14 points over the final races to knock us out of the championship. Monza especially needs to be wet.

The chance was there, but Jean found Bernoldi first. I probably would have driver ordered Bernoldi out of the way had it come down to that, full '99 Ferrari style.

No, I don't have a guide ... right now. But since so many people have asked, I've considered actually making one. I'll try to make it both video and blog format. I do need to prepare a few Excel spreadsheets for that, shouldn't be that difficult.

I ... believe you. As long as we are within striking distance by Silverstone, there's a realistic shot at taking the title. Any later and we might run out of time ... assuming Ferrari and McLaren don't make it easier by bumbling about and dropping points like they did at the beginning of the year.

It's a case of "Want, but can't". I'd like to help, but my current PC is on Windows 7, and I don't have any Windows 11 PC around. Maybe some playing around with the compatibility settings will help, or maybe disabling DirectDraw.

The Brazil, Monaco, Japan, Europe, British and Belgium GPs all became a bit easier thanks to that.

Y definitely did not draw it up like that, but I'll absolutely take it. And I do hope the 2003 car can keep this momentum going.

That ruins chances of 1 stopping most races ... I think I'm good.

Oh, I knew I was forgetting something! (Goes and fixes it) Alright. Done. All Trulli and Minardi (and Arrows and Jag for that matter) is a race full of crazy, DNFs and rain that takes out midfielders and front runners (that aren't Prosts). And considering how Nurburgring and Suzuka usually go, there's a chance.

Not the way I wanted to see Frentzen featured in this one, that's for sure.

I shall justify myself missing that open goal with "Me being tired during the recording might have made me miss a few spot checks", which isn't entirely untrue.

Oh, starting on the wets was really F'ing stupid I don't recommend that to anyone, but at that point I decided to throw up a prayer knowing that the guys aren't good in the Wet, which is something I wouldn't have done if, say, Alesi was there. Or if it was at Silverstone.

Thank you, and hopefully I'll be able to keep pumping these episodes quicker.

It could only mean 2 things. It was not the one I wanted, that's for sure.

Latin American internet moment happened. That has passed at least.

@@jose21crisisMS thank god, nice to see you again.

Yeah, it's basically trying your best to balance expanding the team (to build more spares, more cars, sign more sponsors) without running out of cash by expanding too fast (too much personnel or too big a factory). It's fun when you get the hang of it, but the start is always difficult, especially with low performance teams that don't get a lot of FIA cash.

I was actually hoping to run a 0 stop at Germany at some point, since it had so few laps and wear wasn't that massive. Depending on setup, driver orders, tyre resilience and traction control level, I think a soft 0-stop at Germany could be possible, but I haven't gotten around to testing it yet

Looking back, it was probably the better idea. Maybe I thought I didn't have enough personnel to get the full repairs done and just focused on getting 2 cats as ready as posible. As for the 4th car, the benefit applies only when the Test Rig is built (which I figured out after some testing) so at least in season 1 the 4th car is mostly useful after Brazil or Germany when the other cars are plenty worn.

Yeah, ended up figuring out that was overestimating how much tire wear we would have. Two stops was very doable.

Hi, thanks for following the series. And you are correct with that guess!

@@jose21crisisMS Cojonudo! No es habitual encontrar fans de GPW

Je, no es usual pero aún hay algunos que descubren GPW.