F1 1986 Season

F1 1986 Season V1.1 by Cherry and David Marques
***INSTALLATION INSTRUCCIONS AT THE BOTTOM***


Preview
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https://mega.nz/#F!W50ikaJK!43mJ3rBQtzbG0TSx9dFPtA


Original rFactor 2 ReadMe
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FORGET ANYTHING AFTER, THE 1986 TURBO CARS REALLY WERE ROCKETS,
AND TO HANDLE THEM I REALLY THINK YOU HAD TO BE A MAN.
— GERHARD BERGER

The Formula One cars of 1986 are the most powerful Grand Prix cars to ever have
raced (and maybe never be?). There were still no limits on engine power.
Most powerfull engine was BMW M12/13 1.5 litre single turbocharged straight-4
engine used by the Benetton, Brabham and Arrows teams. Brabham had the least
power from the these cars (Boost of around 4.9 in quali when others were getting
around 5.5-5.7 bar boost), as BMW designed a special version of their
four-cylinder turbocharged engine with the engine block tilted almost
horizontally (18° from horizontal) to reduce drag from car body. However, the
tilted over engine and specially designed gearbox also produced many reliability
problems including oil surge and a lack of throttle response that only
compounded the already poor response of the BMW turbo (four cylinder turbos
generally suffered more 'turbo lag' as a result of only using a single
turbocharger, while V6 and V8 engines used twin turbos and suffered less lag).
Car had less drag than any other teams that year, but huge rear wings on that
era slowed down all the powerfull cars very much (highest top speed was
351 km/h from Benetton). FIA limited fuel for 195 litres on that season, so you
have to save fuel if you are planning to finish some races. Saving fuel is easy
with the Boost controller (map it to your wheel!!)

THEN ON TOP OF IT YOU HAD THE QUALIFYING. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER BACK THEN, YOU
HAD A QUALIFYING LAP, WITH QUALIFYING TURBO, WITH QUALIFYING TIRES. YOU WOULD
COME TO THE MORNING TO PRACTICE, BUT ALL YOU COULD PRACTICE WITH WAS A CERTAIN
AMOUNT OF BOOST, YOU WOULD HAVE ABOUT 900 OR 1,000 HORSEPOWER, BUT IN THE
AFTERNOON YOU WOULD HAVE AROUND 1,400 HORSEPOWER. SO IN THE AFTERNOON YOU HAD A
DIFFERENT GEARBOX, BECAUSE OVER LUNCHTIME THEY WOULD CHANGE THE GEARS, AND THEN
YOU WOULD PUT ON ONE OF THOSE ONE LAP SPECIAL TIRES AND YOU WOULD GO OUT WITH
ALL THAT EXTRA POWER AND THEN THE WHOLE LAP WAS A COMPLETE COMPROMISE, BECAUSE
ALL YOUR BRAKING POINTS WERE AT DIFFERENT POINTS BECAUSE OF THE EXTRA POWER AND
SPEED. AND OF COURSE OFTEN THEY WOULD CHANGE THE BRAKES AS WELL, SO YOU JUST
HAD TO REACT ALL THE TIME TO THE CHANGING SITUATION. AT THE END, WHOEVER DID
THE BEST COMPROMISE WAS AHEAD. BUT IT WAS A VERY SPECIAL ERA AND VERY VERY
EXCITING FOR THE DRIVER AND FOR SURE YOU NEEDED BIG BALLS.
— GERHARD BERGER

Tips:
- In tuning menu you can change between Qualification and race car. Notice that
 Qualification car is good only for few laps. Take in and out lap very slowly.
- You can set visor option in tuning menu!
- Use high rubber settings on tracks, or let 10 AI race for 40 laps before
 driving. This will make huge difference with handling of car.
- If the engine runs too hot, use more radiator or less boost setting.
- Map boost controller to your wheel. Car uses lot of fuel, so you cannot use
 full boost on every race.
- When you starting to get full boost, easy of from thorttle if you are middle
 of corner. You will easily loose control if you are not paying attention.
- Car has 4 race tires (wet/soft/medium/hard) Use the quali tires only in
 qualifying
- Map brake bias to you wheel. Set it more to rear if you are losing control
 under braking.
- This car is very very different to drive than anything else. So you will need
 lot of time to adjust your driving style to this car
- This car has understeer, so you have to change your driving style too! (you
 can make less underteering with more front wing, but notice you will loose
 control when boost kicks in easily if you are not careful)
- AI don't understand Quali engine or tire strategy. So use HARD tires on races
 and race engine on quali if you are driving against it. Also AI has sometimes
 hard time with the turbo lag. Changing the style of driving for AI would need
 tweaking the game code, so I cannot help with that.
- ENJOY!!

THE CAR WAS LIKE A BOMB AT CIRCUITS LIKE SPA, AUSTRIA AND MONZA.
AND THE POWER WAS UNBELIEVABLE — EVEN IF THE TURBO DELAY WAS TERRIBLE. YOU’D
OPEN THE THROTTLE AT THE ENTRY TO THE CORNER ONLY TO GET THE POWER AT THE EXIT.
AND IF YOU MISSED IT BY FIVE OR 10 METRES, THERE WAS NOTHING YOU COULD DO — YOU
JUST SPUN IT. THE LAG WAS ABOUT ONE OR TWO SECONDS. AT ZELTWEG, DOWN THE LONG
STRAIGHT TO THE BOSCH KURVE, THE CAR WAS THROWING OUT 1400 HORSEPOWER AND JUST
KEPT ON PUSHING — YOU FELT LIKE YOU WERE SITTING ON A ROCKET.
— GERHARD BERGER

Donate to Postipate and Chief Wiggum if you like our work.
Paypal link: https://www.paypal.me/postiandchief

https://www.paypal.me/postiandchief

All money will go 50:50 to me and Chief


Teams Credit
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AGS JH21C ChiefWiggum
Arrows A8 ChiefWiggum
Benetton B186 ChiefWiggum
Brabham BT55 ChiefWiggum
Ferrari F186 Cherry/ChiefWiggum
Ligier JS27 ChiefWiggum
Lola THL2 ChiefWiggum
Lotus 98T ChiefWiggum
McLaren MP4/2C Cherry/ChiefWiggum
Minardi M185/M186 ChiefWiggum
Osella FA1G/FA1H ChiefWiggum
RAM 03B Valiante & Markus/ChiefWiggum
Tyrrell 015 ChiefWiggum
Williams FW11 Cherry/ChiefWiggum
Zakspeed 861 ChiefWiggum


Wheels and Rims
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All tyres and rims created and used with permission by Prairie.
Rim Logos and some special designs created by David M.


Sounds
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Engine sounds made by Sky and sound effects taken from F1C


Tracks Credit
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Jacarepagua: Carrera.4
Jerez: Carrera.4
Imola: TTTTT (Converted and updated by David M. and mrjglo)
Monaco: Carrera.4 (Converted and updated by David M.)
Spa: F1C (Sponsors updated by David M.)
Montreal: MotorFX/SamAlex
Detroit: Carrera.4
Le Castellet: Carrera.4/MotorFX/SamAlex
Brands Hatch: Virtua_LM
Hockenheim: Carrera.4 (Converted and updated by David M.)
Hungaroring: F1C (Sponsors updated by David M.)
Zeltweg: GPC/SamAlex
Monza: Carrera.4 (Converted and updated by David M.)
Estoril: Carrera.4 (Converted by Frentzen127)
Mexico: Carrera.4
Adelaide: Carrera.4 (Converted by Frentzen127 and updated by David M.)


Artwork
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Team Helmets: Valiante (models and textures), Fabrizio68 (textures)
Team Uniforms: Eddie, David M., Cherry
Team BKs: David M.
Team Icons: David M.
Track LODs: David M.


Special Thanks
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-ChiefWiggum for allowing his work to be converted
-Cherry for his hard work and motivation
-Sudden for info gathering
-Konstantin for making all the race specific liveries
-Schumacher180 for all the track specific events in the GDB files


Known Bugs
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-Random CTD when running many races in a row (Trace indicates missing SLOT###)
***If anyone knows how to fix any of these bugs, please let us know


Terms Of Use
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Enjoy this mod to the fullest, that's all. If you want to convert or use this
as a base to create other cars, you're welcome in doing so as long as the
appropriate credit is given to the respective authors of the files you are
using. You can find all authors in this file


INSTALLATION
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1) Remove any previous 1986 mods you might have installed
2) Download and install the updated versions of the following circuits: Monaco, Hungary, Spa --> https://wookey.forumotion.com/t1248-dm-tracks-corner#62897
3) Extract all files from F1 1986 Season.exe to F1C installation directory
4) Wait for 86Setup.bat to autorun or manually execute it (This will add driver
  names to game.dic and insert all 86 team pit walls in logomap.mas)
5) Run F1 Challenge 99-02.exe and enjoy the ride

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlS1sDwt9dbPhZsnlKrNIFyjVXwqUA?e=tl3787

Thank you so much mate!
Looking forward to test it these days

Well, the cars look fabulous, but there are no track-specific liveries?
Especially the non-tobacco ones for Britain and Germany are missing.

Also, in Portugal, only Rosberg's car was with that yellow livery, not both of them.

Other than that, very nice!

Haven't tried the season itself yet, just browsed thru vehicle and circuit files...

Fabulous!!!! Thanks a lot!

Ooooooh god, I am in the special thanks section of the credits!!! it's really a pleasure and an honour mate. A high quality 1986 mod it's finally here, I had dream about it a lot of times.
Thank you very very much David, for bringing us these magnificent cars for F1C, thank you very much Chiefwiggum, Postipate & all the people involved creating these cars in rF2, and last but not less... thank you Cherry

By the way, tips for a (maybe) future update... kaps is totally right hehehe will be very nice if non-tobacco liveries are added in a future update. About Portugal, only Rosberg ran with a yellow McLaren, and... I don't know what more to say, all cars are beautiful

I'll enjoy it A LOT mate, 100000% sure best wishes and again, thank you very much mate

Always grateful, Sudden.

Kaps wrote:Well, the cars look fabulous, but there are no track-specific liveries?

Although the banter was fun, it’s too bad instead of saying thanks the first thing is asking for more. Maybe next time you can spend the time getting permission, figuring out how to properly convert card, actually converting them and fixing them to work properly in F1C. This is very disappointing. This has gone on for years and years and frankly I’m getting tired of this. If you want more, why not ask if you can help next time. This really kills the motivation. Please think next time before asking for more

I’ve released so much content in this site and seems like Sudden is the only one here giving thanks

Hello DavidMarques,

Thank you very much for the mod.

I asked for permission to Kaps to use his 1987 cars. Anniversary is doing the mod, mixing 1987 from rFactor, DDR, a little bit of 1988 and the stuff Kaps has done. It will take time, but when Anniversary finishes the cars, I will send you the final work.

Not for release, but for your own enjoyment.

Kind regards,

Cristian

P.D.: If I knew how to create cars from scratch, I would do Ekstrom.

I did forget to say something in my previous comment guys! Even if I've already said it some times (some of you know it), it's always good to remind it

David Marques, Cristian Luis & company; If someday you need help for anything, I will try to give a hand ^^ maybe not in modding cars or tracks because I don't know how to do it... but yes researching information, doing historical data of tracks (GDB files)... or any kind of support things that they may help you in your projects!

If you need help for 1987, or other projects that may come in the future, I'll try to give my little hand, as I tried other times hehe
(just to give an example... I could remark the main differences between Williams FW11 and FW11B, but maybe you have already done it)

Best wishes mates and enjoy this 1986 mod I've already played it and I can say it's a jewel. Very happy to finally play HQ 1986 season, thank you so much again

Came by just to thank you for the effort, dm! Thanks a lot for taking the time for actually working on this!
By the way, thanks for all the tracks and mods from 83-96. A great amount of work, indeed!
I'm downloading it now to test.
Cheers!

dmarques wrote:it’s too bad instead of saying thanks

Instead of saying thanks!?

You just gotta be kidding, right?

I've thanked you and the rest in every other post.

Never mind, I'll do what still needs to be done myself.