The 1991 was Senna's third and final World Championship year. Arch rival Alain Prost failed to win a race with uncompetitive Ferrari and was fired before the end of the season due to a dispute with the team. 1991 also saw the debuts of future multiple world champions Michael Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen (which became the next big rivalry in F1), as well as the retirement of three-time champion Nelson Piquet. Schumacher raced only 6 GP's at Jordan so he's not included in the season. There is no skin for him in the mod, either. You can play him on the 1992 season that I just released. Hakkinen is included but Lotus that year was the slowest car on the grid.
Okay, probably the best championship mod yet because the cars are all FREE. I've done this a long time ago and played and tested it through many times... but waited until we have a proper free Phoenix track. I release these one by one (I still have 1986 coming).
That free Phoenix street circuit is not pretty and not up to 1988 and 1992 ASR tracks standards (which are incredible) but at least the ai is lighting fast now (it used to be 6 seconds too slow) and the race is great. It has the correct layout for the 1991 so in that sense this year is now fully functional. Finally.
All tracks have been tested and they are there for a reason. Monza, Imola and Spa 1988 have faster ai's than the 1992 ASR tracks and the Hockenheim 1988 is more accurate as the Bremskurve 1 & 2 didn't change before 1992.
I have added another championship file for the pay mod version of the Phoenix track. That track looks superb and has layouts for all years 89, 90 and 91. But the ai is broken in many ways. I have the same friend working on it who fixed the free track.
Quite astounding that these ASR cars are 100% free. These are 99% the same quality as the incredible RSS 1990 and ASR 1991.
The championship is set for Senna but as usual change it to any driver you want and place Senna to the ai grid with 96-99 ai level (depending your skill).
I always keep the grid at max. 20 cars. This has many benefits. Because AC ai cars don't behave like the real F1 cars on their warmup lap (give space) full grid would make way too difficult to get a clear QF lap. Also lower ranked ai cars aggression is low exactly for this same reason. With high aggression their behaviour in slow QF laps and as backmarkers is NOT realistic. With higher aggression they try to knock you out even during the blue flags. The downside is that now when accident happens they sometimes get stuck behind eachother on street tracks. But it's a compromise, you can't get it both ways. If you feel this is not good, feel free to add the full grid yourself. The ASR package has it.
Mansell is very fast in the season and his ai rating is 99 and it's plenty as the ASR McLaren is quite slippery and oversteery. I usually used very high rear wing setting and was competitive in many races. I managed to win the WDC twice, became third once and second once. I'm not the best sim racer but I'm not the worst either and I find the difficulty challenging but fair.
If you find the season too hard/easy, simply open the Notepad and adjust the driver rankings from championship.champ file to match your personal skills.If you're new to sim racing, I guess top ai ratings like 92-93 could suit you better. Hard to tell.
ASR 1991 cars have the sparks by default but this mod increases the effect. They look incredible. The sparks mod has instructions inside.
Video speaks for itself how amazing this mod is.
All download links and everything you need is in the video description. Including the three different cool SimHub dashboard/overlays and the free Phoenix track (that you already might have when I released the 1990 year). Also a link to the Phoenix pay track.
Enjoy! And if you have any questions or need help or something else, let me know.
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