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520racer's Alternate F1 Universe - The Reboot 1998 season

Posted on August 4, 2020 at 10:35 PM.

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520racer�s Alternate F1 universe The Reboot: 1998 season

First, the bad news, there was significant issues with the original planned 1997 season and the way it was conducted, I only managed to ran the first two races before I found out a significant issue regarding the number of teams I have which was originally set to 19 teams and the maximum number of teams the game itself could take at one time. I have too many teams on the original entry list and the max number of teams that the game could run was capped at 14. I was originally planning to split the teams into two separate files, but then the pain of switching files was too much for me to handle over time. So, what I have decided to do now is essentially cancel the 1997 season after the first two races were run under the old method and trimmed down the entry list for 1998 to 13 teams, which still gives me a full 26-car grid without the need of removing any cars after qualifying. It required some thinking on my part to decide which of the extra teams get the axe. Anyways, the first step was to fire the drivers that didn�t appear in the game Grand Prix World, which was based on the real-life 1998 season anyway and then work my way from there. So, here are the twelve drivers from the original 97 entry list that didn�t make the cut this time around.

Gerhard Berger
Pedro Lamy
Greg Moore
Tarso Marques
Gianni Morbidelli
Norberto Fontana
Nicola Larini
Vincenzo Sospiri
Ukyo Katayama
Kenny Brack
Tom Kristensen
Pedro De la Rosa

From there, I have removed the following six teams from the original 1997 entry list

DAMS
Jordan
Forti
Stefan GP
Volvo
Prost

Among these teams above, removing Jordan was the toughest one to swallow, with the prost team a close second.

So, here�s the brand-new entry list for the 1998 season, thankfully I had saved the prior individual files beforehand so it was a mostly pain free process of transferring the old stuff to the new file that I am using now along with a few minor additions being made as a response to so many driver seats being removed. Also, the driver, engine and other stats remained the same from the 1997 files.

1998 Entry List

Ferrari

0 Jacques Villeneuve
2 Mika Hakkinen

McLaren-Mercedes

3 Damon Hill
4 Rubens Barrichello

Ligier-Peugeot

5 Michael Schumacher
6 Jean Alesi

Williams-Mercedes

7 Heinz Herald Frentzen
8 Ralf Schumacher
T Juan Pablo Montoya

Piquet-Renault

9 David Coulthard
10 Ricardo Rosset

TWR-Renault

11 Johnny Herbert
12 Alexander Wurz

Larousse-Ford

14 Eddie Irvine
15 Emmanuel Collard

Minardi-Honda

16 Jarno Trulli
17 Laurent Redon
T Esteban Tuero

Benetton-Ferrari

18 Giancarlo Fisichella
19 Luca Badoer

Tyrrell-Ferrari

20 Mika Salo
21 Tora Takagi
T Andrea Montermini

Sauber-Renault

22 Olivier Panis
23 Pedro Diniz
T Stephane Sarrazin

Lotus-Mercedes

24 Shinji Nakano
25 Jan Magnussen

Durango-Hart

26 Jorg Muller
27 Ricardo Zonta

The season will be simulated using Grand Prix 2, so that way all 26 cars can be on the same starting grid now. The race calendar will still be 16 races long with the classic 10-6-4-3-2-1 points system in use. Stay tuned for the season opener.