We will see the Lotus 97T!
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cause it would be very hard to find a racetrack to race on if you don't
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In my view, I think that the main content will be like that:
-Lotus 97T
-McLaren MP4/4 (maybe, depends on licenses...)
-Toleman TG183B/TG184 (maybe, same reasons...)
-The British Formula 3 car he drove in 1983 (maybe, also same reasons...)
-Interlagos (Kart track and F1 circuit)
If PD has a surprise for us (which I doubt this...) we can wait also:
-Imola Circuit (the track where he had his fatal accident)
-Autodromo Estoril (the track where he took his first pole position & win with the Lotus 97T)
-Adelaide Street Circuit (if you remember, PD promised a second Australian track for GT6, so.....)
I'm 100% sure that we will not see his Williams FW16, because the license belongs to Codemasters for the F1 2013...
I'd love to have Imola but NOT with the Senna content, that would be unpleasant.
The same can be said of the Williams, which when Senna drove it was a dog of a car anyway. The rest I agree with, but I'd like to see the MP4/5 and/or MP4/6 as well, people seem to forget those cars for some reason.
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In my view, I think that the main content will be like that:
-Lotus 97T
-McLaren MP4/4 (maybe, depends on licenses...)
-Toleman TG183B/TG184 (maybe, same reasons...)
-The British Formula 3 car he drove in 1983 (maybe, also same reasons...)
-Interlagos (Kart track and F1 circuit)
If PD has a surprise for us (which I doubt this...) we can wait also:
-Imola Circuit (the track where he had his fatal accident)
-Autodromo Estoril (the track where he took his first pole position & win with the Lotus 97T)
-Adelaide Street Circuit (if you remember, PD promised a second Australian track for GT6, so.....
I'm 100% sure that we will not see his Williams FW16, because the license belongs to Codemasters for the F1 2013...
Very optimistic, but I wouldn't turn it down
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Imola as part of a Senna themed content would be really bad taste.
Imola on its own would be a complete waste of money, time and resources.
It's a classic magnificent flowing race track of the old school totally ruined beyond redemption by chicanery.
Imola on its own would be a complete waste of money, time and resources.
It's a classic magnificent flowing race track of the old school totally ruined beyond redemption by chicanery.
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yea. maybe. People go to imola every year to commemorate his death, electronic version of that just gives people all over the world that opportunity.
but i see how that could be just me to think this way. Maybe im just too white and nerdy!
Now what i really feel shouldnt be in this under any circumstance is the car that killed him. No point to that.
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What about Donington, under rainIn my view, I think that the main content will be like that:
-Lotus 97T
-McLaren MP4/4 (maybe, depends on licenses...)
-Toleman TG183B/TG184 (maybe, same reasons...)
-The British Formula 3 car he drove in 1983 (maybe, also same reasons...)
-Interlagos (Kart track and F1 circuit)
If PD has a surprise for us (which I doubt this...) we can wait also:
-Imola Circuit (the track where he had his fatal accident)
-Autodromo Estoril (the track where he took his first pole position & win with the Lotus 97T)
-Adelaide Street Circuit (if you remember, PD promised a second Australian track for GT6, so.....
I'm 100% sure that we will not see his Williams FW16, because the license belongs to Codemasters for the F1 2013...
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It's supposed to be a celebration of Senna's career. Nobody wants to remember the scene of his death playing Gran Turismo. I mean, he won three races there, they could put it in for that, but obviously there are many other tracks he won races at, which would be more appropriate to add.
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I really like the Imola track, even after it's changes, but it should be added on it's own. Not packaged with a Senna update.
I t was just a quick comparison that came into my head. Anyway yes, it is an important part of his career but for 99% of people the only connection it has to him is that it's the track that took his life. As I said in other threads, there isn't a positive way to promote the track as part of a Senna package. A better comparison might be the Vegas track in a Dan Wheldon pack.
Yes some people would use the virtual track to pay respect to him, lap in formation or park up at the wall but it only takes a few morons trying to recreate the crash, albeit in a different car, to make PD and their choice a PR disaster with sensationalist "Gran Turismo players in sick recreation of Senna's death" headlines.
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If PD has a surprise for us (which I doubt this...) we can wait also:
-Imola Circuit (the track where he had his fatal accident)
-Autodromo Estoril (the track where he took his first pole position & win with the Lotus 97T)
-Adelaide Street Circuit (if you remember, PD promised a second Australian track for GT6, so.....
I'm 100% sure that we will not see his Williams FW16, because the license belongs to Codemasters for the F1 2013...
As Samus says, that would just be insensitive given this particular time right now. PD is illogical in many ways, but I don't think they'll be stupid enough to commit PR suicide with including those in this pack, especially after trying so hard to attract the Brazilian fans. I Guarantee no terrible engine sound or physics will be more insulting then the addition of those during this anniversary.
Its not so much that (otherwise, all the real world tracks wouldn't be here) as it is the inclusion of the track specifically on the anniversary of such a tragedy.
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My guess would be Adelaide gp street circuit will be available with the lotus97T after all it's confirmed this is the first car we will get in senna content so it's only logical that the track he gained his first pole and win at in the lotus would be the first track we receive.
Then a version of the mclaren with possibly donington
Then a version of the mclaren with possibly donington
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In my view, I think that the main content will be like that:
-Lotus 97T
-McLaren MP4/4 (maybe, depends on licenses...)
-Toleman TG183B/TG184 (maybe, same reasons...)
-The British Formula 3 car he drove in 1983 (maybe, also same reasons...)
-Interlagos (Kart track and F1 circuit)
If PD has a surprise for us (which I doubt this...) we can wait also:
-Imola Circuit (the track where he had his fatal accident)
-Autodromo Estoril (the track where he took his first pole position & win with the Lotus 97T)
-Adelaide Street Circuit (if you remember, PD promised a second Australian track for GT6, so.....
I'm 100% sure that we will not see his Williams FW16, because the license belongs to Codemasters for the F1 2013...
I'm sure that PD won't add Imola...or any track. PD never gives away tracks.
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I don't see an issue with adding Imola in with a 'Part 2' of the Senna content and I shall explain why before you bludgeon me.
The Senna documentary was supported by the Senna Foundation (baring their logo at the end credits) and is supported by Brazilians as a depiction of their greatest celebrity and his life. In said documentary they show Senna's crash, the aftermath and his lifeless body at the edge of the track before putting him into the helicopter. The entire scene is 15 odd minutes in length, 15 minutes of Senna's lifeless body on screen after his accident. I repeat that this documentary was supported by the Senna Foundation. If they are okay with showing his death for the poignant image it holds after a depiction of his life then why can't they celebrate the same thing with GT6's content, which is also supported by the Senna Foundation?
We also forget that Senna wasn't the only person who died that day, Roland Ratzenberger also died and Barichello also had a massive crash that he was lucky to walk away from. Besides, we got a 2013 version of Circuit De La Sarthe after Allan Simonsen died there that same year and no one bats an eyelid because no one knows who he is. I agree that it's not 'Simonsen content' but my point remains.
Go on then, rip my comment to pieces and call me blasphemous.
The Senna documentary was supported by the Senna Foundation (baring their logo at the end credits) and is supported by Brazilians as a depiction of their greatest celebrity and his life. In said documentary they show Senna's crash, the aftermath and his lifeless body at the edge of the track before putting him into the helicopter. The entire scene is 15 odd minutes in length, 15 minutes of Senna's lifeless body on screen after his accident. I repeat that this documentary was supported by the Senna Foundation. If they are okay with showing his death for the poignant image it holds after a depiction of his life then why can't they celebrate the same thing with GT6's content, which is also supported by the Senna Foundation?
We also forget that Senna wasn't the only person who died that day, Roland Ratzenberger also died and Barichello also had a massive crash that he was lucky to walk away from. Besides, we got a 2013 version of Circuit De La Sarthe after Allan Simonsen died there that same year and no one bats an eyelid because no one knows who he is. I agree that it's not 'Simonsen content' but my point remains.
Go on then, rip my comment to pieces and call me blasphemous.
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I call this blasphemy against the church of Senna, stone him!I don't see an issue with adding Imola in with a 'Part 2' of the Senna content and I shall explain why before you bludgeon me.
The Senna documentary was supported by the Senna Foundation (baring their logo at the end credits) and is supported by Brazilians as a depiction of their greatest celebrity and his life. In said documentary they show Senna's crash, the aftermath and his lifeless body at the edge of the track before putting him into the helicopter. The entire scene is 15 odd minutes in length, 15 minutes of Senna's lifeless body on screen after his accident. I repeat that this documentary was supported by the Senna Foundation. If they are okay with showing his death for the poignant image it holds after a depiction of his life then why can't they celebrate the same thing with GT6's content, which is also supported by the Senna Foundation?
We also forget that Senna wasn't the only person who died that day, Roland Ratzenberger also died and Barichello also had a massive crash that he was lucky to walk away from. Besides, we got a 2013 version of Circuit De La Sarthe after Allan Simonsen died there that same year and no one bats an eyelid because no one knows who he is. I agree that it's not 'Simonsen content' but my point remains.
Go on then, rip my comment to pieces and call me blasphemous.
I don't see an issue with adding Imola in with a 'Part 2' of the Senna content and I shall explain why before you bludgeon me.
The Senna documentary was supported by the Senna Foundation (baring their logo at the end credits) and is supported by Brazilians as a depiction of their greatest celebrity and his life. In said documentary they show Senna's crash, the aftermath and his lifeless body at the edge of the track before putting him into the helicopter. The entire scene is 15 odd minutes in length, 15 minutes of Senna's lifeless body on screen after his accident. I repeat that this documentary was supported by the Senna Foundation. If they are okay with showing his death for the poignant image it holds after a depiction of his life then why can't they celebrate the same thing with GT6's content, which is also supported by the Senna Foundation?
We also forget that Senna wasn't the only person who died that day, Roland Ratzenberger also died and Barichello also had a massive crash that he was lucky to walk away from. Besides, we got a 2013 version of Circuit De La Sarthe after Allan Simonsen died there that same year and no one bats an eyelid because no one knows who he is. I agree that it's not 'Simonsen content' but my point remains.
Go on then, rip my comment to pieces and call me blasphemous.
All I will say is showing what happened in reality is quite different from giving people the tools to recreate the accident for their own amusement.
So it's clear i've no issue them adding the track all all, it's tying it into a Senna package that I think would be a bad move.
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The difference would be PD making a huge deal of adding an Allan Simonsen pack and including La Sarthe in the package. The 2013 version of the track in GT6 is not tied to Simonsen in any way.I don't see an issue with adding Imola in with a 'Part 2' of the Senna content and I shall explain why before you bludgeon me.
The Senna documentary was supported by the Senna Foundation (baring their logo at the end credits) and is supported by Brazilians as a depiction of their greatest celebrity and his life. In said documentary they show Senna's crash, the aftermath and his lifeless body at the edge of the track before putting him into the helicopter. The entire scene is 15 odd minutes in length, 15 minutes of Senna's lifeless body on screen after his accident. I repeat that this documentary was supported by the Senna Foundation. If they are okay with showing his death for the poignant image it holds after a depiction of his life then why can't they celebrate the same thing with GT6's content, which is also supported by the Senna Foundation?
We also forget that Senna wasn't the only person who died that day, Roland Ratzenberger also died and Barichello also had a massive crash that he was lucky to walk away from. Besides, we got a 2013 version of Circuit De La Sarthe after Allan Simonsen died there that same year and no one bats an eyelid because no one knows who he is. I agree that it's not 'Simonsen content' but my point remains.
Go on then, rip my comment to pieces and call me blasphemous.
Not ripping your comment specifically, but I have a hard time understanding why everyone doesn't realize how tacky and tasteless this would be. This internet thing is crazy
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Because Imola is by far the best Italian racetrack by opinion of many (myself included, although Mugello is very close) and it is so damn legendary from various reasons.
Also, its configuration is *perfect* for racing in Gran Turismo series, because it allows for races of almost all classes - from small cars on CH tires, to midsize on CS, through sports cars on Sport compounds and racing cars on R.
Not all tracks in GT are suitable for such variety IMO
So yes, Imola is absolutely welcomed in my book.
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Whilst I see that some people would like the track on its own, having it as part of the Senna deal would make me feel uncomfortable at the least.Not ripping your comment specifically, but I have a hard time understanding why everyone doesn't realize how tacky and tasteless this would be. This internet thing is crazy
It's just a little... disturbing.
