MODS: GP Legends I and GP Legends II by bazik

[bazik]

Hi all, Remember that idea of mine for a Mod with the top 20 Legends of F1 (http://www.newstarsoccer.com/newstarforum/showthread.php?t=9369)?

Well at the time i posted that idea, i thought i couldn't make a mod on my own, so i tried with no success to convince someone to pick up that idea, but now that i successfully made my own 2009 mod (http://www.newstarsoccer.com/newstarforum/showthread.php?t=9399) (people seem to like it and use it, and i'm proud of the result), i think i can pick up my own idea.

I just had a problem, picking the top 20 legends... that was an impossible task, i tried, i red countless web pages, but consensus was very hard to find, and when i picked 20, i always left out some that were trully great also.
I tried to use the drivers with most championship wins, but there are some great names, that can be correctly named LEGENDS that never won the title, names like Stirling Moss and Gilles Villeneuve. And even for the ones who actually won the title, i couldn't fit all in 20 places, so i complied a list of all drivers who won a championship title, plus the ones that came in 2nd, and to my delight they were only 48. It was easy to just take 8 and make 2 mods. So here it is.

My apologies to: José Froilán González, Tony Brooks, Clay Regazzoni, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Didier Pironi, Michele Alboreto, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips and Eddie Irvine, the 8 drivers that finished runner up in a championship and just didn't make my top 40.

Now to the mods:

GP Legends I (1950 - 1977):


1950 - Giuseppe Farina - Alfa Romeo 158/159
1954 - Juan Manuel Fangio - Mercedes-Benz W196

1952 - Alberto Ascari - Ferrari 500
1958 - Mike Hawthorn - Ferrari Dino 246


1958 - Stirling Moss - Vanwall 57
1960 - Jack Brabham - Cooper T53

1961 - Phil Hill - Ferrari 156
1964 - John Surtees - Ferrari 158


1962 - Graham Hill - BRM P57
1967 - Denny Hulme - Brabham BT24

1963 - Jim Clark - Lotus 25
1970 - Jochen Rindt - Lotus 72C


1969 - Bruce McLaren - McLaren M7C
1976 - James Hunt - McLaren M23

1970 - Jacky Ickx - Ferrari 312B
1975 - Niki Lauda - Ferrari 312T


1972 - Emerson Fittipaldi - Lotus 72D
1973 - Ronnie Peterson - Lotus 72E

1973 - Jackie Stewart - Tyrrell 006
1976 - Jody Scheckter - Tyrrell P34




GP Legends II (1978-2008):


1978 - Mario Andretti- Lotus 79
1981 - Nelson Piquet - Brabham BT49

1978 - Carlos Reutemann - Ferrari 312T3
1979 - Gilles Villeneuve - Ferrari 312T4


1980 - Alan Jones - Williams FW07B
1982 - Keke Rosberg - Williams FW08

1988 - Alain Prost - Mclaren MP4/4
1991 - Ayrton Senna - Mclaren MP4/6


1992 - Riccardo Patrese - Williams FW14B
1992 - Nigel Mansell - Williams FW14B

1996 - Damon Hill - Williams FW18
1997 - Jacques Villeneuve - Williams FW19


1998 - Mika Häkkinen - McLaren MP4/13
2000 - David Coulthard - McLaren MP4/15

2002 - Michael Schumacher - Ferrari F2002
2002 - Rubens Barrichello - Ferrari F2002


2006 - Fernando Alonso - Renault R26
2008 - Lewis Hamilton - McLaren MP4-23

2007 - Kimi Räikkönen - Ferrari F2007
2008 - Felipe Massa - Ferrari F2008




STATUS:

13 May 09: Now this is still a work in progress, NOTHING is done appart from the team/driver/car selection. And as you can see, this will be A LOT of work, so be patient :)

15 May 09: Some Cars were changed, teams were rearranged to get the maximum of same team drivers on the same team.
This one is going to be very detailed ;) i just finished collecting pictures to base my cars from part one, "GP Legends I", and i ended up with more than 400 pictures and even blueprints of most of the cars, just to get the right shape view from above, and right colors and liveries.
I'll now start on "GP Legends I", i think i will only get started on GP Legends II once I is finished.

25 May 09: New Job, mod will continue at very slow pace :/

[bazik]

15 May 09: Some Cars were changed, teams were rearranged to get the maximum of same team drivers on the same team.
This one is going to be very detailed ;) i just finished collecting pictures to base my cars from part one, "GP Legends I", and i ended up with more than 400 pictures and even blueprints of most of the cars, just to get the right shape view from above, and right colors and liveries.
I'll now start on "GP Legends I", i think i will only get started on GP Legends II once I is finished.

[bazik]

Work is progressing slowly, as each car has a quite different shape, but its going. I also intend to make the classic tracks with the original shapes (if someone is interested there is a site that has all the tracks ever used, and the circuit variations thought the time, very useful for me, since i want to be accurate. (http://www.allf1.info/tracks/ if anyone needs)

But i decided to post 2 samples of the car art to let you know how things are going :)

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/9196/alfam.png Nino Farina's Alfa Romeo 158 from 1950 http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/5930/alfaromeo158alfetta2.th.jpg (http://img268.imageshack.us/my.php?image=alfaromeo158alfetta2.jpg)
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2528/mercedes.pngAnd Fangio's Mercedes W196 from 1954 http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2865/mercedesbenzw1962.th.jpg (http://img193.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mercedesbenzw1962.jpg)

[Cookie Monster]

Wow, could cars like the grey one go fast? They look... weird.

[bazik]

Wow, could cars like the grey one go fast? They look... weird.

indeed, i was shocked when i saw the stats on these ancient cars.

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/362/Mercedes-Benz-W196.html
the gray one:

290 horse power
Top Speed 300 km/h / 186 mph.

the alfa romeo (red one):
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/6/Alfa-Romeo-158--Alfetta-.html

350 horse power
Top speed of 290 km/h / 180 mph

Impressive!

[Cookie Monster]

Impressive indeed... my dad's car can barely make 100 km/h :lol:

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[wrz]

very interesting project, looking for it :)
using F1_2009_ bazik for now yet :D

[cronnot]

I have something that might help!

Im making miniatures of the f1 cars (kind like the line up of the legends you have there) and has kind of the same feeling as the top view of the cars used on the game.

anyway...if you all want to check it out and see if helps this is the page http://www.f1minicars.blogspot.com/

glad I could help!

[bazik]

thanks for the link cronnot :)

Anyway, i have some bad news, the mod will continue, but at a very slow pace, the reason for this is not at all bad, at least not for me, i was looking for a job, and i got it, so right now my focus will shift, this project can't be my priority right now, but for sure i will finish it!