New 1984 Race-by-race mod--done right

F1C 1984 Race-by-Race Mod by Neil (neiln1)—done right / January 2023

This new mod includes all the variations in cars and drivers for the 15 teams that qualified for at least one race in 1984. I have made the physical models and graphics as accurate as possible for each team and race. When I noticed a team using digital readouts I incorporated them in the cockpits (see the screenshots); if I missed a team that used them please let me know. I’ve updated and sometimes replaced the work I did on tracks for 1981 using the great Track Megaupdate 1.02 1982-1996, which supplied the correct version of Nurburgring for the European Grand Prix. The Dallas track is an amalgam of at least four sources; Philrob’s work for rFactor made a huge improvement. As always, I have to emphasize that the artwork for the Campari Bridge at Monza is mine.

The material names in the vehicle .mts files have been consolidated wherever possible, so this new version of 1984 should run faster and more smoothly than my earlier conversion of Pedro Rippingcorpse’s GP4 mod. Every part of the cars (spindles, etc.) has been detached, as well as the driver bodies (so no more headless bodies in retired cars). This mod is intended to be a standalone; copy the folders over a clean installation of F1 Challenge '99-'02 (i.e., the original game with the Audio, Options, Save, and Seasondata folders removed). If you would like to add Jalnervion’s Special Effects 11.1 you can find the files necessary in the Circuits and Vehicles folders with the names “Joseterrain” and “JoseCmaps.” (I realized some time ago that I should’ve retained Pedro’s gp4 discglow files for all the seasons I’ve done because Jose’s special effects for those are great.)

CREDITS:
This mod would not have been possible without the great carset created by Pedro RippingCorpse for Grand Prix 4; I thank him for his permission to use his work. Thanks as well to Labombarda's 1983-84 mod for rFactor, which supplied the backmarkers that Pedro did not do. I also owe thanks to Paul/On Mario for his work on cars and ancillary graphics for earlier seasons, much of which remains; and to Daniel/d4nf1c for teaching me the editing methods that made this upgrade possible. And, like everyone else, I am massively indebted to Wookey for maintaining this website and his Facebook page devoted to F1 photography and F1 Challenge. I couldn’t have done this without the collection of race-by-race photos assembled by him and many others. I’m not sure anymore which tracks are my conversions from rFactor and which ones were done by someone else or come from a different source; as indicated above, I’ve relied a lot on the Track Megaupdate.

I hope everyone enjoys the mod. There are six files to download. If the forum, as it did with 1983, does not allow the full link to be posted and the link gets hijacked by Adfly, paste the link into the address bar of your browser and select the boldface F1 Challenge 1984 Race-by-Race 2023 Part # that appears in the drop-down list.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/vj4rv0nxqfmqpy2/F1_Challenge_1984_Race-by-Race_2023_Part_1.rar/file

https://www.mediafire.com/file/goeghucd4u0qjgs/F1_Challenge_1984_Race-by-Race_2023_Part_2.rar/file

https://www.mediafire.com/file/39qwyeg06ndss07/F1_Challenge_1984_Race-by-Race_2023_Part_3.rar/file

https://www.mediafire.com/file/alkdjw8ihcn3x3c/F1_Challenge_1984_Race-by-Race_2023_Part_4.rar/file

https://www.mediafire.com/file/hj7te6qgvvhxrzu/F1_Challenge_1984_Race-by-Race_2023_Part_5.rar/file

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ugcaow7cvj6q2ev/F1_Challenge_1984_Race-by-Race_2023__Part_6.rar/file