Trivia
The picture used after you crash out of a race features Irish driver Eddie Irvine surveying the scene after a crash. Also, in the background on the championship race screen is what appears to be a picture of the start of the 1994 Italian Grand Prix, seconds before Irvine collides with Johnny Herbert. If this appears to present Eddie in a bad light, this is unsurprising - as 'Irv the Swerve' himself once quipped "I got punched by Ayrton Senna after my first race, crashed in my second, wrote off 4 cars in my third and got banned form my 4th. People are going to think I'm some sort of nutter"
In late 1995 OTM, authors of technically impressive Amiga racer Virtual Karting, contacted MicroProse about doing an Amiga port of the game, but never received a reply. A shame, as I think 68030 or higher system could've done the game justice.
In 1996 F1 driver Jaques Villeneuve used the game to learn the tracks. One year later he received the FIA World Championship title.
Contributed by
GP4Flo (115) on Nov 17, 2003.
The game was being developed with the help of the Williams Renault Formula One team.
Contributed by
GP4Flo (115) on Nov 17, 2003.
The huge GP2 internet community managed to improve the game in many aspects: F1 carsets from all decades can be included using GP2Edit; Thanks to GP2Lap it was possible to play the game over a local network; Using Paul Hoad's track editor over 200 racing tracks from all over the world were created. Today in 2003, over 7 years after the release there are still people who build new addons for the game. They are all being published on http://www.gprix2.com/
Contributed by
GP4Flo (115) on Nov 17, 2003.
The weather modus was taken out of the game just weeks before the release, because the graphics did not look good enough. When some members of the internet community managed to activate parts of the weather code later on, they understood why it was taken out of the game.
Contributed by
GP4Flo (115) on Nov 17, 2003.
The game has a huge internet following with many racing leagues being run using the game. The biggest being LFRS (www.lfrs.com) which has hundreds of drivers all using GP2 to race each other. Literaly thousands of add-ons are available on the internet at www.alphaf1.com/gp2 like new tracks, cars, season packs plus many editors to change in game gfx etc.
