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Grand Prix Legends ( nicknamed GPL ) is a computer racing simulator developed by Papyrus Design Group and published in 1998 by Sierra Entertainment.
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Grand and Prix
Tooling through Sydney on his way to race in the New Zealand Grand Prix, Britain's balding Ace Driver Stirling Moss, 31, all but smothered himself in his own exhaust of self-crimination.
In 1922, Bamford & Martin produced cars to compete in the French Grand Prix and the cars set world speed and endurance records at Brooklands.
In 1983 the Brabham BT52, driven by Piquet and Italian Riccardo Patrese, was powered by the BMW M12 Straight-4 engine, and powered Brabham to four of the team's 35 Grand Prix victories.
The Brabham Racing Organisation ( BRO ) started the year fielding customer Lotus chassis, in which Brabham took two points finishes, before the turquoise-liveried Brabham BT3 car made its debut at the 1962 German Grand Prix.
At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.
The following year the race was called the Zandvoort Grand Prix and in 1950 it became the " Grote Prijs van Nederland " or Dutch Grand Prix.
The Dutch Grand Prix was a round of the World Drivers Championship for the first time not a Formula One race, as the World Championship was for Formula Two cars that year and in 1953.
After 2 more years without a race the Dutch Grand Prix was back on the World Championship ( s ) calendar in 1958 and from then on remained a permanent fixture ( with the exception of 1972 ) until, when it was held for the last time.
In 1995, CPZ ( Circuit Park Zandvoort ) got the " A Status " of the Dutch government and began building an international Grand Prix Circuit.
Circuit Park Zandvoort played host to the first race in the 2006 / 07 season of A1 Grand Prix from 29 September-1 October 2006.
Grand and Legends
Version 1. 0 of Grand Prix Legends, allowed its cars to be set up with a ground clearance of only one inch.
The default setups in Grand Prix Legends combined uncharacteristically low ride heights with short bump stops which resulted in cars whose suspension frequently " bottomed out " and oscillated abruptly between the expected spring rates and much higher bump stop spring rates.
Increasing the ride height back up to 1967 levels transformed the handling of the cars and demonstrated the power and sophistication of Grand Prix Legends, but the reputation of " overly difficult handling " and " no grip " was already established.
To testimony how strong the Grand Prix Legends community remains, 2009 has seen a free dld 60 frame / s ( frames per second ) patch.
It was considered best to get the most recent " all-in-one v2 " patch from SimRacing Mirror Zone to get this sim working at its best but the newly formed Grand Prix Legends Preservation Society has come out with a new installer which not only installs GPL for the user, upgrading all the tracks and cars that come with GPL to the latest specification, but also helps with custom programs that are invaluable to the user.
There is an original demo that was succeeded by the newer Grand Prix Legends 2004 Demo which has all the required patches included plus upgrades to the cars and track ( as of 2004 ) that are included within the original one.
Since Grand Prix Legends was released, GPL has seen the contribution of no less than 537 active creators ( list here ) who have given some or most of their spare time to offer Tracks, cars, race programs, useful tools and dedicated software or whatsoever others add ons.
In 2009, 11 years after Grand Prix Legends originally came out, and with the length problem out of the way, the community has finished its most ambitious project up to now: the realization of the full 72 km long Targa Florio track ( download homepage )
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