I'm part of the modding community and it's great to see tributes such as these to GP4 even to this day

The Grand Prix series was what it all started. I remember racing with my dad as a 5-year old using a Microsoft Widewinder Force Feedback Wheel. Great memories!

That drying racing line is so immersive. Why new sims do not implement it is beyond me.

So many amazing independent teams back then with history and character. McLaren, Benetton, Jordan, Arrows, Sauber, Prost, Minardi...

I have done multiple seasons by picking up every driver and doing hot-seat racing. Its the most fun I have in an F1 game ever. Started doing seasons from F1 2000 100% races and now I am at F1 2012. GP4 is truly the best experience there is. Codemasters does not come even near it for me.

I've been a part of the GP4 community since 2005 and I've never stopped playing/modding the game. I've driven most of the sims out there, but GP4 has stood on top ever since release. When you get the hang of how to mod the game, it's the best experience you can get. Realistic dynamic weather, accurate tracks that Codemasters still can't match, an convincing AI that attacks, defend their position and makes mistakes. And my favorite feature, the broadcast mode. Doing championships without choosing a driver and let the AI battle it out for the title while the game controls the cameras and switching through incidents. The slogan was "Nothing gets Closer". Damn right!

What I loved about GP4 was the level of detail in the car setup. So many things could be minutely adjusted and it all made a difference: Wing angles, ride heights, springs, packers, dampers, bump rubbers, anti-rollbars, diffs, gear ratios, brake balance, you name it... front and rear, left and right, all independently variable to a very fine degree and best of all, you could look at data logs to see precisely what effect your adjustments had on every part of the track. This ability elevated GP4 above all other racing games to the level of a genuine sim.

No F1 game has ever come close to the AI in GP4. If you watched replays in action, it truly looks like a real race with real drivers. The AI would attack you everywhere. They see an opening and go for it. With an editor, you could customize each individual driver within a tenth of each other. It's a crime Geoff could never build on this sim with all the advancements that came after GP4 was gone. I believe we were denied of something truly, truly amazing. Long Live GP4☝🏾🏁

GP2. By far the sim that I have spent the most time on . It was absolutely epic for its time :)

Wish more games went down this path. Still remember the first mechanical failure I had and missing out on all of P1 after having an engine failure on my first flying lap

Put Geoff Crammond in charge of CodeMasters and you will see the F1xxxx franchise go flying. What he did with the GPx franchise was legendary even to this day. I’ve been playing the GP series since World Circuit and will carry on doing it as long as my PC supports it..

I’m shocked by how good the physics look for how old this is

Still the king. I remember my dad pre-ordering it, receiving to play his Pentium 3 700mhz with a VooDoo 3 3000. Great memories!

F1 Challenge 99-02 should be mentioned too! It came out in 2003 and also has to this day a very active modding community as the physics of this game come very close to GP4, it's also much easier to run on modern systems and newer peripherals. There even is a mod which includes every single F1 season from 1950 until today!

Good video, but you glossed over the one thing that absolutely makes GP4 to be STILL head and shoulders above any F1 game (and in certain regards, any racing game at a wider level) today: the AI. The computer controlled drivers actually DRIVE around the track in real time during ALL session, rather than be simulacrums of precalculated lap times during FP and qualifying. This has been the case since the very first Grand Prix. They are subjected to the same physics as the player's car - you'll never get the weird situation you get, for example, in the CM F1 games where you're 1 second faster than the AI in one sector and 1 second slower in another, or tracks where the AI is just too fast or too slow. More importantly, during the race itself the AI have proper racecraft - they battle for position effectively, cover the inside line, back out of attempts if a crash is imminent and in general, the cars move on the track and in the pitlane in an extremely realistic, physics bound way; None of the jerkiness of the more modern games is present (check the CM F1 series pitstops and the cars "warping" to their pitboxes...). Just watching a completely AI race in GP4 (another interesting thing that could be done...launch a race with no players) will leave modern gamers jaws on the floor due to the effectiveness of the AI. FInally, the GP series was actually much more accessible than today's games. Codemaster's F1 series is more or less impossible to play with a keyboard and very hard to play precisely with a pad. All the GP games were perfectly enjoyable even with just a keyboard - you would not set any hotlap leaderboards on fire, but you'd be able to enjoy yourself.

Played all of Geoff Crammond's titles over the years going on to othe sims like rfactor 1 and 2, AC and many more. It's crazy to see how the graphics have improved over the years. GP4 stood out at the time and by the looks of it in this video it still does to an extent. I have all of Crammond's titles in my big box PC game collection. I loved the manuals that came with it. They were super detailed . Shame the Internet ruined the visceral experience of buying and owning computer games. Somethings improve (graphics) whilst imo others don't (steam, games AI) :)

As others have already mentioned, F1 Challenge 99-02 would be a serious contender. It lacked things like rain reflections (although its console sibling did include that, along with flag marshals, but ugly driver/pitcrew faces), but content-wise was bigger and its modding capabilities were incredible.

F1 Challenge 99-02, released in 2003: Am I joke to u?

I remember the good old days when i played the hell out of grand prix 2 and 3.

I think the Codemasters formula (no pun intended) can be considered as "F1 sim", when talking about F1 as a sport. It still has the cars, the tracks (although not always accurate), the rules, and you can live you own career. It is somewhat immersive. The codies F1 games looks like they are made for people who just enjoy the show rather than sim enthusiasts, and it makes sense since Formula 1 is very popular, it should be easy for everyone to pick The driving experience is nowhere near as good as a proper sim, it just does the job for what it has been designed for Now I just wish there was a way to have F1 rules on Assetto Corsa, having a blast driving the RSS mods

I played GP 2 and 3 for a lot of time. GP2 was the game me and my friends had when we were in grade school. Some of us had a wheel, others had a keyboard, and we were just trying to get the fastest car on the old Hockenheim circuit. It was great.

Great to see this tribute, 20+ years ago my two best friends and I used to do full seasons in hotseat mode on GP3 then GP4. The memories, we would show up at my mates house with our top secret tinkered setups on floppy disk, pay an entry fee for each gp and go head to head. It was a great way to play the game, lots of laughs and the season champion would get the entry fee kitty. I'll have to get a copy now and see how it performs on my Ryzen system, a dam sight better than the old AMD K6 I used to run it on I'd say.

The best ever ! Still modded to this day and sporting features current games don't even have, like having different weather on different parts of the track and multiple types of failure while racing (transmission, brakes, gearbox, etc...)

I actually adored the use of A and Z along with on keyboard to drive. It sort of stuck you to the racing line if you were going fast enough (you could still easily understeer etc) so you felt like you were on the limit and had to hunt for that little bit extra to gain an advantage. I remember it being something that would feel good in TOCA too.

Happy Birthday GP4, thanks for the great video. 😀

So much time spent in all 4 GP series games. And what is amazing to me even today - tiny car setup changes worked and felt right when played on keyboard in GP2. Better than in modern Codemasters game with the wheel. Telemetry tool also was really cool

The fact that Crammond refused when asked if he would release the GP4 source code when the game is still played and modded is honestly insane

I used to play Grand Prix 1 on an Amiga 1200. Grand Prix 2 was only going to be released on the PC and was the sole reason why I got a PC. In fact, because of Grand Prix 2, it is the reason why I am still on PC to this day.

I don't remember much playing GP4 but god damn, I spent more time playing GP2 with my uncle who got me into F1 than I've played any Codemasters F1 game. Still love the 1994 Footwork because of that game.

Don't forget Geoff made Stunt Car Racer .. the most fun you could ever have on an Amiga 500.

I first played GP4 back in 2018 or so, on my crappy laptop, I still enjoyed every last bit of it, except the part where I had to fight the installment process and game itself but in the end I got it working. It is one of my favourite F1 racing games of all time now, I am a new fan of the game, but I cant help but love it so much more especially with all the mods and such available, and I had no controller or steering wheel to speak of back then and the assists still made it fun and engaging to just focus in racing in the game. I love Grand Prix franchise so much.

I was just thinking about this game today! I'd love to play it again, but no idea how....

I had this game back in the day and it was MIND BENDING how realistic it was to the actual sport. The last (and best) Formula 1 racing sim to date.

I still play GP4. I know the graphics and sounds are not in the same level of Automobilista or other Sims, but honestly GP4 still has the best simulation experience. Just one correction: official mod 2022 is not released yet. There's just 3 cars launched (Mercedes, Red Bull and Aston Martin) and another 2 in progress (Ferrari and McLaren). It was released a 2022 mod with a spec car, but quite different from official cars.

The one thing that was in GP3, car failures were pre-determined. If you were to get a suspension failure on lap 37 of the race, you could load a 20 lap older save and drive like a granny, and still have that suspension failure.

For me this is the best F1experience even to this day. It's impressive how this game convices you that bot called Schumacher is really Schumacher!

Mercedes W12 in Iracing is the closest to a F1 sim you can get today.

Awesome memories playing this sim. Loved everyone of the formula 1 gp games. But 4 has a special place as it is the true last F1 sim....

Spent hours on that series of F1 games, what memories!!

F1 Challenge is the last true sim, no hate to GP4 though.

This was my 1st game ever. Not racing game. GAME. This brings back so many memories. Really wish they were still around to this day.

I played GP2 and GP3 a lot back in the day. Really enjoyed them a lot. Never heard of GP4, funnily enough. I'm gonna look if I can find a copy of it...

F1 challenge 99-02 >>

My friends and I used to race in real-time when each GP was on TV, using hot seat of course, to race on the same tracks alongside the actual race. Nutters lol.

GP4 is NOT the last F1 sim - year later Image Space (you know the rFactor guys) made F1 Challenge 99-02 the last F1 full sim.

It’s kinda weird and sad how both GP4 and NR2003 are beloved Sims with strong communities today, but back in the day, weren’t in the spot light like the console games at the time

Played GP2, played GP4, but actually loved GP3 the most. I had a little dislike of the shiny graphics in GP4. I was amazed every time how superior the simulation was compared to the other F1 games though. Good memories! Lots of playing time!

F1 challenge 99-02 is great too

When i watch it i remembered F1 97 game on Ps1 i can try this game on my pc too.Thank you for creating this video.

F1 Challenge '99-'02 was the last one, not GP4.

I have not watched a ton of F1 (watched some Formula E) or played any of F1 games, but as a NASCAR fan this reminds me so much of NR2003.

I played this game a lot, because it was very well optimized for olaying on the keyboard, allowing you to practice until reaching competitive times, and battling it out with the field on a clean way. Between this, and what others have said about the drivers AI, must be why I simply can't get myself to enjoy the Codemasters series. I have a much harder time controlling the car, so I can't battle or move trough traffic in a clean, fun way

Hey mate just an update, You can play this game with different wheel pedal setups and still have force feedback by using joystick gremlin

I love that old fia intro ......I want it back .

I have made in the past a mod with real commentary from olaf mol (iam dutch). Crashing and sound with real-time commentary. What a blast! Even i changes the replay cams an car cameras. And all the sounds in and outside the cars.. a beautiful memory..

spent months modding GP4 those were memories sadly stop playing them back 2012

f1 challenge 99-02 released a year later and shared a lot of features with GP4 as far as I can tell

Geoff Grammond did amazing work this franchise of games. I wish he was still making these games.

GP4 is great, but F1 Career Challenge was released a year later and it's not a slouch in the physics. Presentation and other stuff, GP4 beats it hands down. And if we are talking about non-official F1 game, rF2 has the best classic F1 cars in any game. The 1991 mod by ASR Formula is just awesome.

Did revs predict the halo 😂

Anyone know where I can get a digital copy of this? My PC no longer has a DVD drive, I haven't played this since I was a kid. I also never had a wheel back then, so it would be good to test it out with modern mods and equipment.

Fantastic tribute video! As a member of the GPx community since well before GP4, I tried different sims through the years and always found myself going back to GP4, even today. Long live King GP4! Long live King Crammond! 😎

oh the things id do for a new F1 sim, we deserve it

I played Grand prix 4 almost everyday when it released I miss it so much 😪

The best, my first racing sim memories and still the best to this day. I still have the box, I just can't figure out a way of making it work on windows 10...

Gp4 has the best f1 experience. I play it every day without mods but gpxpatch. The quantity of information and sensations that the game transmite to the steering wheel and pedals are AWESOME!!! Thanks Geoff Cramond. (He developed the core in assembler)

started racing games with f1gp. played five full seasons in real time in that game. i won a competition in GP2. after gp4 i pretty much left racing games. none ever came close to that feeling... don't know if i should try iRacing :-)

I miss Grand Prix 3 ... my all time favourite F1 Sim!

This is a legendary game and I played it hundreds of hours in my youth. Nostalgia is great but Assetto Corsa with something like ASR F1s mod has come a looong way and is on completely different level. It's not even comparable. But sure, it's not an official game and the Codemasters F1 games are mostly just well presented and pretty arcade games with bad force feedback. rf2, iRacing and Automobilista 2 have pretty good F1 stuff too. But yeah, why don't they make something like this again by today's standards? It was a remarkable game.

Nothing comes close to GP4 in terms of realism. I wish Mr Crammond could make GP5.

Never got this game stable on my PC so I would always go back to GP3 with the season addon.

Did you know mucroprose is back ? they have an F1 sim lined up too!

is there a place where i can get the game? i have it on DVD, but i cant get it to run what so ever on my pc

Maybe i should buy this game - better than the Codemasters games anyway. So is there any chance of editing the starting-grid during a custom race or a TV Mod race? I never played it before so i dont know If you re able to build your own starting grid Like in the F1 Games of sony ? I know there is the Editor Patch 3.5 which inkludes the car performance and so on. Maybe its inkluded there? 😅 Would be nice if you 've got some information about that 🤷

Yes! I’m still using Grand Prix 4 to make KZfaq videos, my Formula A championship is created entirely on this game, and it’s starting this Sunday!

where i can find a 2022 mode for gp4 like the one mentioned in the video?????

I entered the pits in 2002 and im still waiting to be released.

I think the Mercedes F1 in iRacing is the best way to simulate driving an F1 car at the moment, but it is online only and not like a game fully focused on F1.

Has the modding community produced an accurate and full simulation of the 2009 F1 season? If so, which sim have they used? (GP4, AC etc) Are there links to videos on KZfaq? I'm a Toyota F1 fan (yes, I know, you don't have to say) and the only 2009 F1 game I'm aware of is the PSP game which was awful. I was hoping there'd be a superior and accurate recreation of the 2009 season, even if only for people to drive the Brawn. Seeing this GP4 video and only now realising there's an active community keeping it going has made me wonder.

I remember editing the driver and constructor names and just watching the entire race with the AI drivers from TV camera purrspective and just commentating. :)

F1 Challenge '99-'02 came out the following year.

The Microprose F1 games were and still are the best.

Dave Cam was involved with the Indy car game?

the game doesn’t calibrate my pedals in a right way…. any patch?

How can we get GP4 running on Steam Deck? Any help appreciated, thanks

ive tried downloading this on my laptop as an "on the go" racing game, but it says that my class isnt registered when i try to launch the game. Any help please? Haha

back when i was a kid i played this game every time i came from school on my dad's PC together with a microsoft steering wheel. it was truely a grea time to have gamed in. Codemasters just lack the skill and knowledge to be able to make a GP4 game. i just wish that detail of realism

Grand Prix Legends and F1 Challenge 99-02 are far better than GP4 and have remained so thanks to their dedicated communities.

I love this game....all I can say is plank wear...where is plank wear in today's games?

Wish we had these for phone so it is playable out and about

Can you guys also do a video about Grand Prix Legends?

The 2001 Arrows had a Asiatech(Peugeot) engine, not a Ford

How's GP4 compared to F1 challenge?

I played on 2 games and I was able to compare. I always come back to gp4 because it is much more realistic, I assure you.

Any game that has ever used the Codemasters engine/physics/look, is never ever going to be considered a Sim or even close to it. Especially when you compare it to ACC, AC, iRacing, rFactor2, RaceRoom, GP4 and the Simbin titled games and others I am missing.

comparing old shit to new shit is insane. its like saying the gun is better than a bow and arrow.

"the emersion codemaster and EA strive for today" they definitely don't

Great video, i play GP4 ever day in my channel :)

GP4 community 🤝 F1 Challenge 99-02 community

Now a video on how to get simucubes and Heusinkveld sprints to work on this? 😂