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[KAMKA-Z]

I was watching qualifying for the Grand Prix of Monaco last night. I found it downright fascinating to watch the in-car video. It's amazing they made that track look just like the game! I even think I'm picking up some pointers for better lines. Nothing like learning from the best. (The race is on later today on one of the major US networks at the same time as Indy. Brilliant programming!) Hmmmm, I bet there's some places on that track I could park it an nobody could get by. Sounds like a challenge. I'll have to ask Schummi.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

I was watching qualifying for the Grand Prix of Monaco last night. I found it downright fascinating to watch the in-car video. It's amazing they made that track look just like the game! I even think I'm picking up some pointers for better lines. Nothing like learning from the best. (The race is on later today on one of the major US networks at the same time as Indy. Brilliant programming!) Hmmmm, I bet there's some places on that track I could park it an nobody could get by. Sounds like a challenge. I'll have to ask Schummi.

Cool, I'll have to check race out. Is it on ESPN, too?

This is how I feel about Laguna Seca--I saw a GT race (real one) on ESPN Speed last fall and some of the camera shots looked just like the game...albeit with a lot more cars on the track, of course.

 

[Kylehnat]

I found it downright fascinating to watch the in-car video. It's amazing they made that track look just like the game!

Why is this surprising? The track came 70 years before the game.

This is how i feel about Laguna Seca--i saw a GT race (real one) on ESPN Speed last fall and some of the camera shots looked just like the game...albiet with alot more cars on the track, of course.

The camera angles for the real-world courses in GT3 and GT4 are also taken directly from the cameras used in real life (for the most part).

 

[KAMKA-Z]

It's amazing they made that track look just like the game!

Why is this surprising? The track came 70 years before the game.

Just a little of my twisted humor. I remember watching the Monaco GP on "Wide World of Sports" as a kid in the early 70s. (on a black and white TV) One in particular stands out in my memory when Jean Pierre Beltoise won in the rain in a McLaren Cosworth.

Those guys can really fly through that chicane after the tunnel. Of course it's a little more open and you fly over big speed bumps instead of hitting a barrier if you straight line it in real life.
I also want to try turning in a little later on the hairpin lefthander.

 

[Kylehnat]

Just a little of my twisted humor.

Heh, okay It's hard to tell. Some people at GTP are so naive to think that the game inspired the Grand Prix.

 

[supert10]

If you use a manual transmission, count the number of times you shift. it
will be very close to the actual number the real drivers shift in the race.
And if you are a good driver your times will be very close also. The most unrealistic
thing is the number of times you will have to pit. Apparently tire technology has
improved considerably in the last few years. Watch the old
movie Grand Prix if you can find it. Some nice shots of Monico in there.

 

[Super T]

Tyre technology wasn't that bad when GT4 came out?

When was the last time anyone saw an F1 car pit every ten laps on medium compound tyres?

Just an observation.

 

[Razzbar]

Watch the old
movie Grand Prix if you can find it. Some nice shots of Monico in there.

I saw it when it came out -- in Cinerama. Had a seat right in the middle of the theatre, too.

FYI, Cinerama was a cinema technology that used a screen that wrapped around the theatre for about 180 degrees. You saw cars coming around to pass you out of the corner of your eye. The screen doesn't wrap above your head -- just around the sides.

I only recently learned that there were only about a dozen movies ever shot in Cinerama, and that some people are talking about reopening some of the remaining Cinerama theatres and showing the movies. I guess all the Cinerama movies were also produced for regular flat screens at the same time, but Grand Prix in Cinerama was probably the best example of the technology. You really felt like you were moving.

 

[KAMKA-Z]

I read somewhere recently that "Grand Prix" will finally be coming out on DVD, I think this Fall. I didn't see Grand Prix in the theater but I was able to see LeMans. As a kid nuts about racing, it was almost a life changing experience.