Only in a game.....

[FMecha]

Was on F106 on the PSP, I played the GP Weekend on Indianapolis with Yuji IDE and he dominated (and won ) the race after successful struggle in qualifying, starting in the front grid areas!

[Wizzie]

Shameless self-advertising time. Yes I did make it
EDIT: Every single one of those clips has come from a moment in my career so far.

[Shizuka]

F1 2002 on the GBA is... absolutely random.
Qualifying @ Suzuka.
I got a 14th place in a Renault, and who got 2nd? Who? Of all people, ALEX YOONG did. Who got pole? SATO!

[Ferrim]

Yes, Zanardi finished 6th. Yes, I edited Salo in, that's why he's at the wheel of the BAR.

No, I wasn't actually controlling Badoer.

[dr-baker]

Just been playing F1 2010 and racing at Monza, where Bruno Senna finished 12th in the HRT with no retirements (was racing to 10% race distance)...

[AdrianSutil]

F1 2011 - PS3 - Career.

I'm now into my third season, and second year with Williams. 2nd in Championship thank you very much. But at Hungary, some drivers run wide or hit the barrier when entering the pitlane to make thier stop (doing 20% distance). Two things happen, they either retire on the spot, or somehow rejoin the track without making a stop. Now this isn't usually a problem because the cars who rejoin are down the field, but yesterday it happened to Vettel whose my main Championship rival. Because the A1 attempted to make the pitstop, I can only assume the computer thought Vettel had done it, so he never came back into the pits. For lap after lap I took about 3-4 seconds out of his 'lead'. Into the last corner on the last lap and bits of his tyres are flying around everywhere, he beats me by less than a second to win the race. He doesn't get disqualified and now leads me in the standings by 15 points. Think of the difference if he got black-flagged

[FullMetalJack]

EPIC BUMP

I was racing at Adelaide in the rFactor 1983 mod, De Cesaris led pretty much the entire race until the two Tolemans took the lead on the penultimate lap.

Toleman almost scored a 1-2, Warwick was leading until Giacomelli overtook him.

Jarier was blocking badly though, so at least that part was realistic, and was so slow, that Giacomelli punted into him.

Warwick won.

[AdrianSutil]

EPIC BUMP

I was racing at Adelaide in the rFactor 1983 mod, De Cesaris led pretty much the entire race until the two Tolemans took the lead on the penultimate lap.

Toleman almost scored a 1-2, Warwick was leading until Giacomelli overtook him.

Jarier was blocking badly though, so at least that part was realistic, and was so slow, that Giacomelli punted into him.

Warwick won.

Everything about that post screams EPIC...

[FullMetalJack]

EPIC BUMP

I was racing at Adelaide in the rFactor 1983 mod, De Cesaris led pretty much the entire race until the two Tolemans took the lead on the penultimate lap.

Toleman almost scored a 1-2, Warwick was leading until Giacomelli overtook him.

Jarier was blocking badly though, so at least that part was realistic, and was so slow, that Giacomelli punted into him.

Warwick won.

Everything about that post screams EPIC...

I forgot to mention ATS scored a point as well, and almost got 2 because Eddie Cheever's engine was pretty much dead

[Klon]

I just remembered something - in a manager game on another board, run with Grand Prix 4, I have managed to unrejectify Ricardo Rosset in the 2008 F1 season. Top that!

[JeremyMcClean]

Playing F1 2001 on the PS2 (the one made by EA Sports) for some reason... here's some odd things I've seen:

Jean Alesi winning a race (with Jordan... don't remember when)
Jacques Villeneuve on the front row (USA)
I can recall HHF scoring two podiums with Prost
And Tarso Marques finishes 5th... after starting 19th (16 laps distance, I'm guessing it's about 10-15% distance)

also in F1 2010:

Rosberg leads most of the race (Montreal, and it wasn't wet)
Alguersuari finishes fifth
Renault gets a 1-2, with Petrov winning
Heikki Kovalainen placing 11th... by about 5 seconds (that's the closest I've ever seen a new team score a point that wasn't controlled by me)

[FantometteBR]

In Grand Prix 2, was rather easy to qualify a backmarker team to the pole position at Germany and Belgium, and win both of them

I did it with Bertrand Gachot in a Pacific!

[BlindCaveSalamander]

In Grand Prix 2, was rather easy to qualify a backmarker team to the pole position at Germany and Belgium, and win both of them

I did it with Bertrand Gachot in a Pacific!

It is easy when you have the difficulty turned down isn't it? Just ask Wizzie.

[JeremyMcClean]

In Grand Prix 2, was rather easy to qualify a backmarker team to the pole position at Germany and Belgium, and win both of them

I did it with Bertrand Gachot in a Pacific!

It is easy when you have the difficulty turned down isn't it? Just ask Wizzie.

Even easier when you go change the drivers' name

[FantometteBR]

In Grand Prix 2, was rather easy to qualify a backmarker team to the pole position at Germany and Belgium, and win both of them

I did it with Bertrand Gachot in a Pacific!

It is easy when you have the difficulty turned down isn't it? Just ask Wizzie.

Even easier when you go change the drivers' name

In my defense, I admit to play Rookie level and with 20% of race distance. But till that, I always started from the last grid position

[tommykl]

I remember F1 2004, when you could retire from the race on lap 1, return immediately to the pits and hear:

"Gianmaria Bruni...
...
...has won the race, he's finished!"

[AndreaModa]

In Grand Prix 2, was rather easy to qualify a backmarker team to the pole position at Germany and Belgium, and win both of them

I did it with Bertrand Gachot in a Pacific!

It is easy when you have the difficulty turned down isn't it? Just ask Wizzie.

I don't think that joke will ever die!

[Jack O Melley]

Only in a (managerial) game you can hire to drive Pedro Diniz without asking him for paying.

[FMecha]

I got the GPM2 2010 edition and got this...



HULKENBERG WINS! WILLIAMS WINS AGAIN FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2004! (sorry, can't resist)

By the way, I controlled Williams.

[JeremyMcClean]

By the way, I controlled Williams.

That doesn't really count... unless it was on an insane difficulty, in that case great job. I could take control of Vitantonio Liuzzi's HRT in F1 2011, put all the difficulties on easy, pole and win the race.

[BlindCaveSalamander]

I think I prefer the fact that Alonso couldn't beat Petrov.

[Ferrim]

Playing F1 2001 on the PS2 (the one made by EA Sports) for some reason... here's some odd things I've seen:

Jean Alesi winning a race (with Jordan... don't remember when)
Jacques Villeneuve on the front row (USA)
I can recall HHF scoring two podiums with Prost
And Tarso Marques finishes 5th... after starting 19th (16 laps distance, I'm guessing it's about 10-15% distance)

I have this game, and have seen similar craziness... Jordan and Prost are unrealistically competitive. Ferrari are not great, unlike real life, and Marques is way more competitive than Alonso. I believe the latter is because their performances are "swapped"; in 2001 Alonso had #21 while Marques was #20, and so the programmers asigned the most competitive performance to #20 instead of #21. I think this because something similar happened with Grand Prix 4.

[East Londoner]

I have F1 2002 (EA Sports), and I've noticed some disreprencies in performance, which is usually seeing Bernoldi or Frentzen climb the field to the podium spots for a while, and Montoya/Coulthard starting way down the grid.

If I crash into someone, they usually go to the pits to be repaired, leave, and then return on their outlap, so two pit stops in two laps! The damage model is pretty weird, as sometimes I can absolutely whack a wall whilst cutting a corner (!) and get away with only paint damage, whilst other times I can lightly kiss a barrier and end up with two wheels on my wagon.

F1 2006 on the Playstation is frustrating. The wet weather model is bonkers, because I can be leading a race, rain starts to fall, I pit for wet tyres, and suddenly I find myself about 5-10 seconds off the pace of all the AI cars. Usually, if it starts to rain, I'll just park it or crash into someone. If you retire during a pit stop phase, the results show that cars that have already pitted end up laps down on the cars who haven't, which means that Super Aguris and Midlands dominate the points.

I swear that Suzuka, Barcelona and Hockenhiem are undriveable at a competitive level on hardest difficulty. Then again, I crushingly dominate, Wizzie-style at Bahrain, Imola, Monaco, Canada, Magny-Cours and the Hungaroring

[KL-racer]

Well, on one of my Gran Turismo 5 save files, I created a b-spec driver named N. (Naoki) Hattori and put him on my b-spec team How's that?

[MinardiFan95]

Well, on one of my Gran Turismo 5 save files, I created a b-spec driver named N. (Naoki) Hattori and put him on my b-spec team How's that?

I've got a B-spec team consisting of V.Petrov, S.Yamamoto, K.Kobayashi and D.Grassi.

[Shizuka]

I would like to respond to the F1 2001 and 2002 things.

I have 2002 on the PC. This crashing into about-to-pit drivers then pitting twice happens in that version too. Absolutely ridiculous.
Also, Formula One 2001 on PS1 (Not the EA game) has some botched up weird stuff:
- The Benetton-Renaults are always in the top 6, from the beginning. This is something that you never really saw in real life, aside from Spa.
- Only Heidfeld is semi-competitive with Sauber.
- Arrows are slower than Minardi.
- Marques' name is not recorded in the game, Murray says "MINARDI". What the f-?
- If you hit an about-to-pit driver, they go GHOST. What I mean here is that you cannot hit them anymore and they go through the pit wall and continue the race, then they slow down for not pitting! Retarded!
- Hitting other cars to make them spin is almost impossible, in the EA F1 2000 it was easy to do. (Hey, if you want to make a season with no points for Ferrari and McLaren, you have to do this...) They just keep going without slowing down into the gravel, hitting the wall, cutting the corners, and nothing happens! Only rarely I have saw any of them actually SPIN at the exit of the gravel / grass trap...

[KL-racer]

Well, on one of my Gran Turismo 5 save files, I created a b-spec driver named N. (Naoki) Hattori and put him on my b-spec team How's that?

I've got a B-spec team consisting of V.Petrov, S.Yamamoto, K.Kobayashi and D.Grassi.

that's 4 good "rejects" you have on your b-spec team!

Anyways, on that same file, I just created my second b-spec driver L. (Lewis) Hamilton!
After skipping through a hundred or so names just to get it!

[Ferrim]

I would like to respond to the F1 2001 and 2002 things.

I have 2002 on the PC. This crashing into about-to-pit drivers then pitting twice happens in that version too. Absolutely ridiculous.
Also, Formula One 2001 on PS1 (Not the EA game) has some botched up weird stuff:
- The Benetton-Renaults are always in the top 6, from the beginning. This is something that you never really saw in real life, aside from Spa.
- Only Heidfeld is semi-competitive with Sauber.
- Arrows are slower than Minardi.
- Marques' name is not recorded in the game, Murray says "MINARDI". What the f-?
- If you hit an about-to-pit driver, they go GHOST. What I mean here is that you cannot hit them anymore and they go through the pit wall and continue the race, then they slow down for not pitting! Retarded!
- Hitting other cars to make them spin is almost impossible, in the EA F1 2000 it was easy to do. (Hey, if you want to make a season with no points for Ferrari and McLaren, you have to do this...) They just keep going without slowing down into the gravel, hitting the wall, cutting the corners, and nothing happens! Only rarely I have saw any of them actually SPIN at the exit of the gravel / grass trap...

And then there was the awful "persecution effect": when you were leading the race, the AI would start doing impossible lap times and catching you at the flag.

The game is also not competitive at all, qualifying doesn't matter for the AI because in race day it always was Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton, Montoya and Heidfeld in the top 8 since the first corners, with Frentzen and Ralf Schumacher a little bit behind.

[Shizuka]

And then there was the awful "persecution effect": when you were leading the race, the AI would start doing impossible lap times and catching you at the flag.

The game is also not competitive at all, qualifying doesn't matter for the AI because in race day it always was Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton, Montoya and Heidfeld in the top 8 since the first corners, with Frentzen and Ralf Schumacher a little bit behind.

Yeah, I forgot that. It was annoying to see my 10-second lead drop to 0.866 by the end of the race, within TWO laps on Normal difficulty in Spa.
And yes, that quali result is almost ALWAYS happening. I know the PS2 version got more attention, but come on, THPS3 also was decent on PS1 as well, not only on the new consoles.

Also, if anyone has F1 2003 on the PS2, did you try this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZlbu0ohyic

[madmark1974]

And then there was the awful "persecution effect": when you were leading the race, the AI would start doing impossible lap times and catching you at the flag.

The game is also not competitive at all, qualifying doesn't matter for the AI because in race day it always was Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton, Montoya and Heidfeld in the top 8 since the first corners, with Frentzen and Ralf Schumacher a little bit behind.

Yeah, I forgot that. It was annoying to see my 10-second lead drop to 0.866 by the end of the race, within TWO laps on Normal difficulty in Spa.
And yes, that quali result is almost ALWAYS happening. I know the PS2 version got more attention, but come on, THPS3 also was decent on PS1 as well, not only on the new consoles.

Also, if anyone has F1 2003 on the PS2, did you try this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZlbu0ohyic

That video (and part 2) is laugh-out-loud funny! Especially what happens to JV in the first one, and Ralf in the 2nd, and Kimi in both of them!

[Shizuka]

Definitely!

Here's one video from Formula One 2001 PS1 with a bug I totally forgot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrvhhZ9QWvA

[AdrianSutil]

Started playing F1 2010 as I've got all trophies on F1 2011. Decided to do a career on legend difficulty but with medium TC settings. It must also affect the A1 cars too, wet race at Monaco and everyone was struggling to stay on track. Four drivers retired and You had Barrichello, Senna and Kovalainen finish 2nd, 3rd and 4th (I won in force India). Reminded me a bit of Monaco 96 and 97, you really didn't know who was going to finish where!!

It does it at every wet race, so it makes for an exciting Championship!!

[WaffleCat]

In GP4,watching a 25% AI race at a wet Nurburgring,Jos Verstappen managed to win,with Tomas Enge in second....

Also,Verstappen broke down the moment he crossed the start finish line.

[Shizuka]

In F1 2000 PS1, I managed to go airborne meters high in Monaco and retired because of that, with damage off!

[East Londoner]

On my copy of GP4 (which I seldom play nowadays, thanks to A-levels), I find that the cars belonging to Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Tomas Enge, when under CPU control, have a massive performance disadvantage compared to the rest of the field. They'll qualify 6-7 seconds off the pace, and wind up 5 or 6 laps down if they make it to the end of a race. Wierd

[eurobrun]

On my copy of GP4 (which I seldom play nowadays, thanks to A-levels), I find that the cars belonging to Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Tomas Enge, when under CPU control, have a massive performance disadvantage compared to the rest of the field. They'll qualify 6-7 seconds off the pace, and wind up 5 or 6 laps down if they make it to the end of a race. Wierd

On my copy Eddie Irvine has won at Hockenheim by over a lap.

[golic_2004]

Only in F12011 in the Chinese Grand Prix could Narain Karthikeyan not only be faster than Sebastian Vettel, but he is 4th fastest in practice.

[Wizzie]

On my copy of GP4 (which I seldom play nowadays, thanks to A-levels), I find that the cars belonging to Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Tomas Enge, when under CPU control, have a massive performance disadvantage compared to the rest of the field. They'll qualify 6-7 seconds off the pace, and wind up 5 or 6 laps down if they make it to the end of a race. Wierd

Well Button did absolutely suck that year but I think they probably got Alonso and Yoong mixed up in the development phase or something like that

[F1 Adam]

Playing F1 2011 a couple of nights ago, I got my Sauber from 11th on the grid to the lead at Silverstone after about 6 laps, and was happily leading until the pitstops. Dropped to about 5th or so with people who hadn't stopped ahead of me. No panic, I thought, they'll be out the way soon enough.

The laps counted down (it was a 21 lap race) and by lap 19 I was back up to second, but getting the impression the guy in front wasn't bothering to stop. Happily I got past him on lap 20, but without me overtaking, Jarno Trulli would have won his second ever race. A pretty impressive performance considering he started 16th or so, giving Lotus their first ever points on my career.

This season's been quite fun, what with a Sauber 1-2 at Canada and Ferrari having about 30 points to their name after 9 races. Webber's bossing the championship though...

[Ferrim]

On my copy of GP4 (which I seldom play nowadays, thanks to A-levels), I find that the cars belonging to Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Tomas Enge, when under CPU control, have a massive performance disadvantage compared to the rest of the field. They'll qualify 6-7 seconds off the pace, and wind up 5 or 6 laps down if they make it to the end of a race. Wierd

Did you update the game with the 9.6 patch? I remember there was a performance issue with the original release and the field spread was too big. In the patched version the only issue (that I know of) is that Alonso's and Yoong's performances are swapped.