Vintage F1
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- Essex
A selection from every decade would be pretty cool.
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- psychoazubi
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- Betelgeuse
- Beeblebrox_237
Yes. Any cars, but preferably cars from the 1960s.
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It should be a good challenge to drive those.
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- Sick_Cylinder
If you mix the decades one problem would be the changes in displacement regulations in F1 from 1950 to 1967 - 1950 4.5 litre (or 1.5 litre supercharged) then 1954 2.5 litre, then down to 1.5 litre I think from about 1960 to 1966 then 3 litres from 1967.
I would like to see it, but in two categories - the FR cars from the 1950's such as the sweet handling Maserati 250F, the aerodynamic Vanwall, the innovative Mercedes W196 with its desmodromic straight eight 2.5 litre. The Lancia / Ferrari 2.5 V8's. Add in the classics from the pre 2.5 litre formula - the 4.5 litre V12 Ferrari and prodigiously powerful, but difficult to drive V16 BRM. Those cars all had skinny tyres and an abundance of power over grip meaning they had to be put into a four wheel drift sso could be great fun to drive.
If you then had a seperate category for the early 3 litre cars which were all MR with big grippy tyres. I think the early 3 litre cars were the most interesting because of the wide variety of engines, before the Cosworth DFV became dominant. So we had the H16 BRM, V12 Weslake powered Gurney Eagle, V8 Repco Brabham, V12 Honda, V12 Ferrari.
If Polyphony Digital could get the sounds right for all those engine configurations across those two categories it would be happy days!
I would like to see it, but in two categories - the FR cars from the 1950's such as the sweet handling Maserati 250F, the aerodynamic Vanwall, the innovative Mercedes W196 with its desmodromic straight eight 2.5 litre. The Lancia / Ferrari 2.5 V8's. Add in the classics from the pre 2.5 litre formula - the 4.5 litre V12 Ferrari and prodigiously powerful, but difficult to drive V16 BRM. Those cars all had skinny tyres and an abundance of power over grip meaning they had to be put into a four wheel drift sso could be great fun to drive.
If you then had a seperate category for the early 3 litre cars which were all MR with big grippy tyres. I think the early 3 litre cars were the most interesting because of the wide variety of engines, before the Cosworth DFV became dominant. So we had the H16 BRM, V12 Weslake powered Gurney Eagle, V8 Repco Brabham, V12 Honda, V12 Ferrari.
If Polyphony Digital could get the sounds right for all those engine configurations across those two categories it would be happy days!
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I'm sure all you petrol heads have heard it before, but a quick taste of the BRM V16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMPDCNyQxE
Fangio onboard in a 250F Maserati:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Ifcgl789E
Lancia Ferrari D50 V8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6gEiiEVZTk
Mercedes W196
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2hd1foTIQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMPDCNyQxE
Fangio onboard in a 250F Maserati:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Ifcgl789E
Lancia Ferrari D50 V8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6gEiiEVZTk
Mercedes W196
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2hd1foTIQ
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- GTP_Im_Sorry
Those would be a lot of fun, but you know that either
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Opening that can of worms, eh?
I agree though. I would probably put Comfort Softs on them at the most.
As awesome as it would be to have front-engined, 50's F1s in the game, I don't see it happening. They need permission and licensing from FOM, and I don't think they'd willing to add cars from that era anyways. Previous GT games seem to point to a late 60's bias in terms of historic race cars. Which isn't a bad thing of course, but it does deny us of some great cars from the 50's time period.
I think I'd be happy if they brought back the 80's and 90's fantasy F1 cars from GT3 as standards. Premium level would be preferred for GT6 though of course.
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- Antonisbob
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It would be great, lot's of '70s stuff please. They just look wild!
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It would be great, lot's of '70s stuff please. They just look wild!
I'll raise you the Tyrell P34;
I definitely agree with the 70's, if any decade. The cars looked so incredibly varied.
Although, like any series, I think it needs to be comprehensive, otherwise they shouldn't add it. In my opinion. Historic sportscars are still lacking!
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Opening that can of worms, eh?
I agree though. I would probably put Comfort Softs on them at the most.
As awesome as it would be to have front-engined, 50's F1s in the game, I don't see it happening. They need permission and licensing from FOM, and I don't think they'd willing to add cars from that era anyways. Previous GT games seem to point to a late 60's bias in terms of historic race cars. Which isn't a bad thing of course, but it does deny us of some great cars from the 50's time period.
I think I'd be happy if they brought back the 80's and 90's fantasy F1 cars from GT3 as standards. Premium level would be preferred for GT6 though of course.
They don't, they can licence old cars straight from the rights holder of the car, whoever it may be these days. For example for Project CARS SMS went straight to Classic Team Lotus for their F1 cars, they didn't deal with FOM.
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