F1 cars in GT4

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Maybe those old 50's F1 cars:tup:...Now that would be tha shizzle......
 
Thoes old turbo F1's, now they would be a blast.
 
Ground effects Lotus for me then. Uh, I mean, uber-differential'd Lotus ;)

Out of curiosity - what's the oldest car we've actually seen in GT?

Edit: A quick search seems to have the GT40 and the Shelby Cobra in the running.
 
What about the 6 wheeled williams or that F1 car with the fan out the back;)
 
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Ground effects Lotus for me then. Uh, I mean, uber-differential'd Lotus ;)

ah, yes what a great differential that car had :D
 
PD is going to include 5 F1 cars in the game,but some older cars from 1980-1989.These cars would be the fastest in the game because they have arond 900-1000hp and their weight is about 600 kg.
 
Is that 5 cars for both version or 5 for the NTSC one and two for the PAL one :grumpy:

Stupid PD screw us PAL people over!:(
 
R390 Lover
PD is going to include 5 F1 cars in the game,but some older cars from 1980-1989.These cars would be the fastest in the game because they have arond 900-1000hp and their weight is about 600 kg.


How do you know this detailed info on F1 cars???
 
He doesn't he's just trying to guess an impress us. Weve already seen the 6 F1 type cars from the NTSC version of GT3 in a build of GT4 at a special event with Juan Pablo Montoya. I would think there will be some more F1 type cars included as well though.
 
...but u don´t know it so exactly,too or???..i would be happy if there will be some F1 racers who are nearly as fast as the ones which drive today(perhaps 0.5 or 1 second slower!)
...but wHAT WOULD U LIKE MORE:
slicks for the f1 cars
or
tires as they were driven today in the Formular one?????
 
I guess the tyres should depend on the car, if PD include a more modern style F1 car then it should have the grooves but if they include F1 cars from erass where they ran with full slicks then give them full slicks. I would like to see a range of F1's this time, maybe a couple of the old turbo cars with over 1000Bhp and a coulpe of more up to date ones and then a couple from the early 90's and maybe a few real F1 classics.
 
... so u´d like to see MIXED COUPLES of F1 cars???would be nice,but the new ones would drive the older ones away beacuse they´d be toooooo good!!!....but it would be nice to see nearly all GENERATIONS of the F1 cars in one race!!!
 
I'd just like to add a nugget of information here...

We are all under the knowledge that there were only two F1 cars in the PAL game and six in the NTSC one. But I am sure that all six are on the discs for both. The reason is as follows:

I have downloaded almost all of the hybrid .inis i have seen on this site and saved them to a garage (after changing them all to Region=EU, of course!!)
and there are many cars that have the engines of: 'Williams FW11' and 'Lotus L99t', F1 cars that were (i think) the F686/M and the F090/S. The engine noise for these cars is different to both of the F1 cars that you can normally get, and so the noise must be on the disc. I can therefore presume that those cars ARE on the disc.

On the topic, I am for lots of F1 cars, and i don't think we need the game to limit their use for us. If we want to win the game the easy way, so be it.
 
Well... I'd like to see two or more from every 10 years since maybe the '50's.

So about 12+ cars including some from '00 to '04 if possible. Some pre-'50's would be great... But I wouldn't want them to go over the top.

I think that's fair. There would be a big difference between the models so it wouldn't be a waste of space.
 
Amen leetcake.

I might go have a look in the hybrid forum to see what people know about F1 cars in different regions.
 
Okay, some people here aren't too bright.
The car that everybody keeps referring to as the "fan car,"
wasn't powered by a "fan."

The 1971 Lotus 56B was powered by a Pratt&Whitney gasoline turbine,
and it also featured all-wheel-drive.
During the '71 F1 season, the car performed terribly.
However, it nearly won Indy that year.

I believe Emerson Fittipaldi was the driver.

It was a JET ENGINE. Similar to the type developed in the 50's and 60's and first used mainly in the Bell UH-1 "Huey" helicopter in Vietnam. It weighed the same as a comparable gasoline engine, and ran more efficiently on gasoline...would even run on straight kerosene, and make huge black smoke clouds.
Good for war, bad for racing.
 
There was a car that used a large fan to suck the car to the ground. Are thoes two different cars? Because I don't recall ever reading that it had a jety engine and I'd remeber that. This one did quite well and resulted in the fan being banned from F1.
 
live4speed
There was a car that used a large fan to suck the car to the ground. Are thoes two different cars? Because I don't recall ever reading that it had a jety engine and I'd remeber that. This one did quite well and resulted in the fan being banned from F1.

Two different cars I believe. I've heard of both the jet engine car and the fan car.

I guess he's confused...
 
Oaky so the fan car is still the fan car. Your still not wrong for calling it that due to the fact that it had a fan but you'd be wrong if you though it was powered by the fan.
 
That's exactly right.
"They" are the same car. F1 banned the use of turbines afterward.
The fan on the back was the means of extracting the heat from the turbine
so it did not melt the bodywork or catch the car on fire.
The car was still wheel driven with a gearbox...not by jet thrust.
Supposedly, it also caused problems for anybody following closely behind.
 
I'm probably matchig this Lotus to anothers results then.
 
To clear up some confusion from above.
The Lotus gas turbine car was tested by Jimmy Clark in the late 60,s for Indianapollis,(spelling) it was called the Lotus 56, Jimmy Clark was killed shortly afterward in an F2 race.
I do not think this car was ever driven in F1?
The ground effects car using the fan to suck the car down was a Brabham-Alfa BT46 which in the 1978 F1 season won its one and only race at the Swedish Grand Prix. It was banned from competing after this race.
The Fan was mounted at the rear of the car and sucked it down to the road.
Refer this link for more information. http://ddavid.com/formula1/story9.htm#The Birth of Ground-Effects
 
How many of you Gran Turismo Freaks (Like me) like Formula One racing....and I dont mean you occasionally watch.....I mean like YOu have seen EVERY race...even though that German in the red car (MS and Ferrari) are dominating a bit, making F1 a bit BORING, although this past weekend's British Gran Prix was pretty interesting. Especially Jarno Trulli's crash after the Bridge corner...wow!! :) 👍 👍 💡 :sly: :scared: :ouch:
 
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