Grand Prix Classics 1979 - A Casual Review

[@grandicellichannel]

The intro with "Faster" of Harrison JUST threw me back in time as long as the GPL '65 Champ series of your own... goosebumps! 💖👍

[@jcgabriel1569]

Fitting song, considering the fact that they guy likes racing cars...

[@grandicellichannel]

@@jcgabriel1569 absolutely, I adopted Harrison's song even for a video of mine about Brabham explaining during the BOAC 1967 the Brands Hatch circuit: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6SQmJKLrJygabs

[@cbr3220]

He’s a master of going faster

[@ciggy_]

I read someones comment about faster they were talking about how they found the song interesting, a personal story about life on tour and being part of the Beatles, and the pressures of that life but no, it’s just about race cars, cuz George liked race cars

[@djvycious]

Ha! I started singing that song while watching this video before I even saw your comment!

[@Someguy1785]

The F1 79 demo that came out around August 2006 was the only reason I bought rfactor. I deleted the base content and drove the hell out of the Renault, Ferrari, Williams, and Ligier by myself around the 1979 tracks until I eventually found a league to race with. I didn't get a PC until 2003, so this was my intro into F1 history and made a tremendous impression on me. By the time we gave up on rfactor around 2014, I'd still say this mod was in my top 5 all time. On a side note: Very brave of you to bring back your old intro music at the risk of losing your ad revenue, but I can't deny it brought a smile to my face.

[@jcgabriel1569]

What a save at 26:46! You even managed to get the position!

[@GPLaps]

😎

[@G.P_79]

@@GPLaps in full Gilles Villeneuve fashion.

[@Fastbikkel]

The master at work. That was such an accidental tribute.

[@periklaskyriakidis6064]

@@G.P_79 more like Ronnie Peterson I'd say

[@YoShImUrA53]

Happy to see you also have installed our HistorX v1.96 mod (4:00). I'm the guy that made the physics (always after Niels did his magic!). I'd love to see you do a feature on it some day! PS: The '79 mod was one of those that I kept coming to when I wasn't racing in our own one. Definitely is special and you did a great job of capturing it here!

[@classicmotorsporthub]

Love to see you revisiting once again the legend that is rFactor 1! ^^ GPC 1979 was a fine mod with some of the most iconic cars in Formula One.

[@leggera1]

Loved this vid and this period of F1. Heap of my all time favs being featured throughout: De Angelis, Piquet, Watson, Lafitte, Depailler, Arnoux, Scheckter, Villeneuve, the list goes on…

[@blackflagqwerty]

Can't believe it's been 15 years. I still play this!

[@tonymostella7457]

Greatest rFactor mod ever! I spent hours on this when I downloaded it years ago.

[@X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X]

rfactor with F1 mods, complete with all cars and a track pack - those were golden days!

[@millennialchicken]

It's amazing to see how modders can do such a high level of detail. Love to know if any of the team are still modding today.

[@skodalaskoda8754]

I think some work for rieza

[@harizrushdi6876]

@@skodalaskoda8754 one of them is Reiza's boss, even

[@dom_wings]

One of the best mods in any racing game ever. Wouldn't mind seeing a livestream of this either!

[@PavlosLepaul]

Oh yeah, one of favourite mod in rfactor. I try to play it to this day

[@pellman87]

I lived to play this mod, everyday, all day, with my friends, back in 2009. It's a masterpiece! "Faster than a bullet from a guuuun, he's faster then everyoneee" gives me goosebumps every time

[@fishflake1209]

34:55 - Hector Rebaque was actually racing a Lotus 79 for most of 1979; he commissioned a new chassis from Penske, but that car wasn’t ready until the last three races of the season.

[@paideadwing]

This carset marked my first years of my online simracing life, everything revolved around it. Thanks for the memories.

[@bestopinion9257]

I used to play this a lot in rFactor 1. Cars are astonishing beautiful, especially onboard, and driving is so fun.

[@youlacktechnique]

This would make a fantastic series, one that would be great to run along the 66 season you're doing

[@mrrondini2585]

Now i wanna see Richard Axelson jr. Racing in the 1979 F1 season!

[@Holeecrab]

the intro gave me huge nostalgia where i got no internet connection in home so i need to get the mod through an internet cafe with less than 100 kb/s speed! I don't know why my mod version doesn't have the williams but i still got a ton of fun playing with it.

[@GrandPrixYannick]

That intro hits hard in the nostalgia.

[@ThomasfromGreece]

miss the days of rF1...

[@noahr2710]

The ground effect formula 1 cars are one of my favorite era, so glad to see it back

[@pgale]

Couldn't tell you the hours I spent on this. Love it to come across to AB2

[@rfactorworld]

Great work man! You're a rFactor lover! We're happy to have someone like you in our community! 🏁

[@f1jones544]

I was at this Long Beach race irl, sitting in an office window in the building on the right as you go up the hill. The office was on a corner so we could see from the Shoreline straight to the top of the Pine St hill where they'd peel into the pits, about half the circuit in total. That building's gone now but I watched four Long Beach GPs from there. This mod is awesome, and yes, it is why I originally got rFactor. I ran a full-length season in the late 2000s with a Ligier and won the championship (kept score myself with Excel). Very satisfying.

[@shiftinlife]

Fascinating! I love the way these cars slide around... Very impressed by the AI. Your commentary is as captivating as ever. Thanks for another great video ;)

[@elliotporterfield6921]

I put so many hours into driving these cars back in my school years. So much fun!

[@ALFONIC]

Fantastic video, what a treat to watch. Love the music choice - that intro captures the glory of the era perfectly, well done!

[@hazy33]

Wish you'd shown the fascinating Arrows A2. This was trying the same thing as the Lotus 80 but if anything was more daring. Tried to sort of start the venturi with aero over the front suspension arms. Sadly had the same downsides. Still, an oddly beautiful car in it's original configuration. I hope you play this mod again sometime, this video was fantastic and to my shame I never knew this mod existed! 1979 was the start of my first proper interest in F1 although i'd been taking to the British GP a few times before but was far too young to understand although do remember James Hunt being driven on the back of a truck around the circuit to celebrate as the winner in 1977. It was a simpler time 🙂

[@dhsRacing0620]

I raced the Arrows A2 in Mybroga League one season, I loved that Car! WarSteiner sponsor colors was my Fav!

[@hazy33]

@@dhsRacing0620 Excellent! Such a beautiful car. I bet it drives better in the game than it did in real life 🙂

[@BurkhartOfficial]

Great video covering an awesome era of formula 1! Didn't even know this mod existed but you covered it beautifully as always! :)

[@seanomatopoeia]

I would absolutely watch a 100% 1979 season now that the ICR season is over.

[@GrandPrixYannick]

Looks like an excellent mod to do a series with it.

[@timonsolus]

Agreed, I'd like to see that.

[@SurrealCereal]

@@timonsolus heyyy thats exactly what im doing! Except its an AI series. Anyway, as for people actually running a series with this mod, if you know where to look, like grand prix rejects and classic motorsports hub, you should be able to find a few people interested in running a proper championship with you.

[@edwardburek1717]

Now this was magnificent! The 1979 season was when I really started taking an interest in F1, and this mod exemplifies that period perfectly. The Long Beach circuit is very different to the one they use nowadays, and I can't figure out why the circuit operators shortened the final hairpin so soon after the left-hand sweeper - I really hate that last bend. What I do love is the advertising hoardings of the period, in particular the Nike hoardings. The ground effects vs turbo era gave rise to a whole load of different car designs, such as that Arrows A9 - surely the wingiest of all wing cars. This was when engineers and designers were give more free rein than what they are able to do nowadays. Just one thing - how come you were able to play George Harrison's "Faster" without getting a copyright strike??

[@BocaRetroGames]

This and the f1 88 mod are the only rfactor mods I've played back in the day, and using keyboard. I've got to try this again with my wheel, now 15 years later

[@gary24fan]

I just found my copy of rFactor 1 the other day. I must get this mod. Great content as always Jake and thank you for highlighting things some of us might not necessarily know about.

[@Dreadtothink]

You gotta do a season with a mod like this. It would be interesting to see a title run with williams. A nippy little dart shaped fw06 and the “lotus 79 with all the flaws ironed out” fw07. It would be fascinating to see the contrast between the two and how close you can get at the end of the season.

[@juanpablogariglio9791]

My personal fav mod of all time! I still run the rfactor2 version though it is a little bit different since it doesn’t have the early car versions (i’d give an arm for them) and top speed is slightly lower. The other thing i can’t believe is that there is not a track pack for the 79 season made for rfactor2. If anyone knows how to get the trackpad and the whole set of cars please let me know, you’ll get a free arm sent to your door!

[@SurrealCereal]

I've picked this mod's brains for the past few weeks, it's genuinely amazing the amount of detail placed into each car and track, it has aged incredibly well for releasing in 2007? If I'm not mistaken.

[@NielsHeusinkveld]

Its somewhat of a Game Stockcar / Automobilista 0.1 with Renato doing lots of work on this, and somehow my complaints about the mod made him consider me for the GSC / AMS games (I don't understand that either..) :D

[@skodalaskoda8754]

do a physics patch for us please

[@RalonsoF1]

Another masterpiece by GPLaps! 👍👍

[@landiahillfarm6590]

Like Grand Prix Legends, RF1's GP79 mod was an absolute game changer. It truly put RF1 on the map. The league I joined ran this almost exclusively for years and had some of the absolute best racing. Ah, the salad days.

[@ConfusedShelf]

Longtime fan of yours from before you took the long break and I've got to say I got a massive rush of nostalgia hearing that intro song. I still half expect to hear it every new '66 Season episode.

[@grnhy]

I still remember this mod. The Ferrari was the first car I tried around Interlagos when I got my first proper wheel (a logitech dfgt) back in 2011. Really liked playing it. Good memories.

[@MaxScheibenpflug]

I played the HELL out of this with some friends. Always picked the Alfa Romeo.... thank you for this throwback!

[@TheRageLivesOn]

wow this is crazy, F1 tweeted that Jean Pierre Jabouille passed away just after I watched the part of you talking about the Renault and his win in France. RIP

[@RonniePeterson]

Its just beautiful to this day.

[@RistoKappet]

This mod was the best and the era was golden for modding ingeneral for rFactor. The different historically accurate car physics, the way you had to set up the cars to make the ground effect work, sounds & visuals, just amazing times.

[@artzreal]

only somewhat recently I was able to set the game just as I want it, all the really worthy classics and tracks are in. still my favorite race sim

[@dashy90210]

Hoooooly cow what a throwback to the 'faster' intro!

[@marv6424]

I used to race a whole online season with it, it was so good.

[@Joakim4803]

the updated version is fantastic ! like the arms

[@bryandickerson5365]

Very cool tour of Watkins Glen! I was looking for my young self on the hillsides overlooking the “boot” ;^) , but actually this sim is replicating a few years later than I was there. My last time there was that fateful day that inspired this chicane. Glad they got rid of it.

[@edoardodalpra4742]

Man the Ligier always had the best liveries imo

[@bretw979]

I've been addicted to the Lotus 79 in iracing, but missing the immersive factor of racing a true-to-life grid. You're videos are always amazing, and bring out what I like in simracing the most, so thanks for showcasing another mod to try out!

[@HallucinatingHedgehogs]

I second this as someone who isn’t the fastest or most consistent. I feel like getting a sim and a setup to be as immersive as possible makes the most fun experience for me. Whether you’re trying to recreate historical events or put yourself as a fictional driver in that time period (a la the codemasters f1 games) it can be a fun way to experience something that isn’t possible to experience or would be exponentially more expensive to do the real thing.

[@bretw979]

@@HallucinatingHedgehogs Oh yea absolutely agree. Having less time to put into iracing since the start of the pandemic, it makes hard to keep up with the faster guys so I just kinda end up in no man's land. And that's not really that fun, and at the end of the day, it's all about having fun racing!

[@razvanmazilu6284]

Man, I played this a lot back in the day. I was always interested in classic F1, but this mod got me even more heavily into it. I sure hope at some point you'll do a full 1979 season using this mod. Maybe Richie Axleson wouldn't be too old to race in '79, but if he is I'm sure he has a younger brother 😉

[@mjqt9921]

Wonderful vid GPLaps! Next up, F1 1988 cars and tracks for the original rFactor 😄

[@superferrariman]

This where I started simracing!!! Soooo amaziiiiiing!!!

[@jasonmoyer]

The 312T3 did not have any underbody aero, and tbh, the 312T4 wasn't really a ground effect car either. AFAIK it had wing shaped sidepods like the Lotus 78 did, because the flat 12 engine didn't allow them to run a full ground effect undertray. IIRC Ferrari's first real ground effect car didn't happen until 81 when they switched to smaller turbos for the 126C. The Lotus 80 failed because it porpoised like mad and supposedly that was a result of how under engineered the chassis/suspension were. According to Mario it had tons of downforce but was scary to drive because the aero balance was constantly moving around because of the suspension and monocoque not being stiff enough to handle the loads.

[@massa_rob]

Sweet memories of this mod and races on Race2play platform. Anyone else?

[@luizfilipediasgenesi172]

About Copersucar: their best year was '78 (2º place in Brasil!, 5º place in Germany), but when the next year, with the necessity of ground effect car's, they decide to go to a former Lotus employee to desing the car. And it's a failure! Legends say when Emerson took the first shakedown of the '79 car in Interlagos he realize the car is not working, with this designer saying he don't understand the ground effect concept. And with the press here in Brasil (despite the Military Dictadorship helping then with the suport of the Embraer in the begging of the team, let them use the wind tunnel of the company) already joking about the team not wining like Emerson did on Lotus and Maclaren day's, the situation got very tense that day with Wilson (rumor, I can't confirm this) almost trowing punchs in the designer.... And the '79 became the pivotial year of the downfall of Fittipaldi's Brothers dream of a F1 team.

[@f1jones544]

Ralph Bellamy was the ex Lotus (and ex Brabham and McLaren) designer. Don't know how I remember that.

[@ThaShaydeeSaint]

As usual, you're the best racing content creator around. Great vid.

[@ConfusedShelf]

The first race at Long Beach made me realise how much of the more recognisable modern circuit is the layout that it is by choice and not by necessity. I've always assumed they're racing on the only streets there are and yet this layout in the same location is almost unrecognisable except for the first and last corner.

[@f1jones544]

There's been so much construction that the circuit's needed to be changed several times. In 1979 the Hyatt Hotel (if it's still a Hyatt) that adjoins the convention center wasn't even built yet, nor the aquarium. Now they use the only route available to them.

[@pickle4474]

wow many races with this mod in the League Legends online racing. Great memories and mod.

[@seebarry4068]

Oooh the old long beach looks great.

[@ErikGPL]

Jammer Lammer's livery is a supposed to be Dutch lion, symbol of the Netherlands. :)

[@GPLaps]

Jammer Lammer, love it. I suddenly love the dutch

[@pluxauag7555]

Just an idea, thumbs up as always for your unique, amazing videos, keep doing these. Can you do hour long Grand Prix's Computer cars only and we view the Grand Prix, the 1970's would be brilliant with you commentating on the AI races through an entire season. Could be it's own series. We'd all be transfixed. Keep up the vids GP, excellent and compulsive watching!

[@maxsamplax]

This mod was and still is a beauty! I hope you gonna cover the aswell great GTPC mod by virtua_LM team for Rfactor1. Great driving, great video!

[@johnjones928]

The Alfa in the Brabham was a V12, not a flat 12.

[@peterdaviesracing]

16:06 - That was his replacement Rosberg as Hunt had retired from F1 after the 7th GP of the year at Monaco. 16:42 - Points- and standings-wise, it was 1978, 17 points and 7th in the Constructor's championship. Slightly sad the team roster wasn't quite complete, the small Kauhsen team was missing.

[@Someyungrebel]

Ok, you gotta get outta my head man. Last night before I went to bed I really wanted to mess around with some ground effect f1 cars, and I get woken up by THIS.

[@carlosfandango2419]

For whatever reason, this just doesn't look like 'fun'. I appreciate you showing us different sims/mods, I guess this era of F1 was almost clinical in a drivers approach and it was more about the car than the driver.

[@f1jones544]

As it's always been and always will be. Even Fangio spent his career chasing the "best car" from season to season, including jumping teams in the middle of a season. Even if everyone drives the "same car," some will always be better prepared and setup, which is why only three Indycar teams have win championships in the past 20 years and only two in the last 10 in spite of it being a spec series for most of that time (the "competitiveness" they always talk about is an illusion). Hendrick's won about half in Nascar in the last 30 years, etc.

[@petere8129]

I think it would be very cool if you did a period perfect full season.

[@tristanheron4144]

I really wish we could get a new full F1 game based on a historic season like this, for PC and console.

[@adaml83]

IIRC the reason for the Scheckter Chicane was as a response to the death of Cevert in 73 towards the end of The Esses.

[@DansMediocreYT]

That dive at 26:45 was fucking awesome! Also this video just reminded me I stumbled upon a '78 onboard around Long Beach a while ago, link here for anyone interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2qnlHyra5Z4rtE *Also Also for anyone else who can't get enough of the sound of DFVs and maybe hasn't seen this onboard of a Lotus 79 (sadly not in period but modern audio quality is a nice trade): kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6TXm3qiZcarfbc It's like audible crack. Go snort it

[@Corvoreviews]

some quick things about the fittipaldi team, at 1980 season the team had keke rosberg and emmerson as their drivers, and a recently acquired engineer called adryan newey (yep he started with fittipaldi) what made the team fold was the fact that they only used brazilian sponsors wich with the increase pressure of the press for wins got tired of the lack of results and started pulling out of the team, now imagine what could have been for fittipaldi if they stayed in the business 3 more years and had given time for andryan to work...

[@evergreen8509]

Great mod. I loved the long Interlagos and the wonky roller coaster Jarama. Organized racing on Race2Play put it all together for me!

[@skodalaskoda8754]

been waiting for this

[@watsonroadster3707]

I remember watching that '79 US Grand Prix at Long Beach. By the way, a true "Villeneuve" move at that turn would have been to power slide it all the way through...I've got an idea for ya'...Let's say Richie Axelson has/had a brother...His name was Robert ( Bobby)...And he's a little younger and instead of going to formula car road racing path he was a circle track racer. I don't know how many late '50's/60's sprint car and midget sims are out there ( or SuperMod sims)??? If not, you had Richie racing in the '66 Daytona 500 and at Riverside. Maybe a whole scenario around that historical concept could be done. If so, I only have 1 request....No Fords!!!!

[@triptechable]

I was born in '79. It's crazy to look back at these cars and see how things have moved on. Fantastic video again as always. Are you getting used to your new setup?

[@dartschiprince]

Great Video

[@jonmcdonald713]

These cars would actually porpoise too and more severely then the current ones. Gary Anderson I think said one team(I believe the ligier) was so bad at Italy down the straight the front wheels would take off the ground before slamming the nose into the ground then taking off again. Makes Mercedes look like a limo in comparison

[@sergiovw1500]

You didn't mention Carlos Reutemann drove the second Lotus instead Ronnie Peterso

[@carnaedy]

Well, if any of the supported platforms support proper race strategy for the AI, I wouldn't mind seeing a full-length 1979 F1 season, to be honest.

[@wolf_pd]

First thought when you started at Long Beach, don't speed in the pits! ;)

[@f1jones544]

The great thing about rFactor is that it supports no pit speed limit, as was the case back then. :)

[@paulanstey4577]

What HUD are you using? Great video once again. Best F1 mod for rF1. I spent 1000s of hours playing rF1 probably 10000s of miles driven. Great sim.

[@mondodimotori]

What are the odds, I was thinking of this mod today when I saw one of those microcar made by Ligier, and remembered me of how the JS11 was my favourite in this mod. I still have the 2.1 version on my external HDD, but do you suggest the updated one you linked in the description? How does it feel compared to the 2.1?

[@gitfindasettahpanzy9892]

Speaking of Dijon, the track reminds me of El Captain in GT4. Wonder if it was any inspiration, for the way the turns and elevation changes flow? It's simply the way it flows that made me think of it, reminded me of two or three corner sections from El Captain.

[@Oblio1942]

I spent way too much time playing this mod in college

[@dylanhale7300]

Why is Dijon not featured in a lot of modern sims?

[@gintonika]

Was Long Beach sliding on T1 while passing the Renault intentional?, it was a complete homage to an actual Villeneuve maneuver there :D nice toucn.

[@freejrs]

Try the DRM mod for rfactor if you haven't already. Very nice quality.

[@classicmotorsporthub]

You should try our Grand Touring Group 5 mod we recently published if you think the DRM mod is good! ^^

[@AgentZ7]

Interesting topic, did chicanes really improve safety?

[@sharolynrich6279]

Wow I've never seen ground effect skirts on the nose of an f1 car. Looks like it needs to trim it's nose hairs lol otherwise I like it. Great video

[@federicobravin2052]

26:46 you went full Keke Rosberg there.

[@ElTio.45-70]

Speaking of Rosberg... It was he, who should have been there in Dijon driving the Wolf car instead of Hunt, who actually retired after Monaco GP, failing to qualify there, Wolf then hired Rosberg to drive the rest of the season, starting from French GP.

[@victim2077]

I'm thinking about downloading rfactor lite for this mod. Also it makes me wish for you to checkout VB mod for F1C99-02 and compared it to other historical F1 mods.

[@sharolynrich6279]

Does anyone know why in Niki Lauda's Ferrari 312 T2 they thought it would be a good idea to have the needle on the rev counter be the same color as the gauge behind it? Seriously did someone decide it was to easy to read at 180mph? GREAT VIDEO BTW LOL

[@Jan_Late]

do you know how to make photos in higher quality?

[@Ctank3p_94]

What ffb and realfeel settings work well with rfactor and the fanatec csl elite?

[@minigungaming5915]

How does one get decent FFB feeling with this game on a CSL DD?