What a race! Knew you had to be in second place coming out of parabolica to win, so it was soo intense hoping you wouldn't loose too many positions as came out the corner! Amazing to watch!
One of my favourite things on TH-cam. 1955 spa race was particularly special and sparked my interest in the era. Thanks for your continued stellar content.
No safety at all, but pure driving bravery those early F1 times were made of! And even if here we are "just" in a sim: You should be given a gold medal for this one, GPLaps! 👍👍👍
Montjuic is beautiful, and probably my favorite street circuit. It's fast, has lot's of elevation changes, and pretty much every type of corner you could imagine. No idea how the AI perform there, though.
This is shuch a great period in the sport's history. I wish we had more representation in modern sims. Like the Fangio years from 1950 to 1958. These cars are amazing! And GPL does not support VR... Nor decent graphics XD Reiza, you are up!
We used to call GPL "the king of sims" back in the day. After seeing this race I truly think it stil deserves that title. This was so exciting man, I was cheering at my desk when you took that checkered flag!!! Loving your content !
Great vid. Almost a quater of a century since the release of GPL. I remember downloading the demo (on dial-up). Praise be to the modders and to the players that keep the spiritual monarch of all sim racing alive! Long live GPL!
Great to finally see this come up. Great win! About the championship, if I were you I'd race at Montjuic, bc at the end of the day both were street circuits in Barcelona, so it would be the best choice in my opinion. The other main option? Maybe going for an unrealistic track for this type of championship, like Daytona, Indianapolis or Bathurst (if there are older versions of them available). You can also call it a championship, but I think this 1955 season deserves a proper ending, especially with you and Fangio being so close in the standings.
I'm so happy everytime i see new upload here. Now i just wish as christmas present a continuing of R. Axelson F1 campaign in 1966 season with some Sportscars/Can Am/F2 races during free F1 weekends :D PS: Great race from start to finish!
No idea why you kept taking the inside line out of Ascari and into Parabolica to make a tight curve even tighter. No wonder you were passed so often there. However, amazing win, and great stuff behind too. Tense! [edit] Of course you talked about that on the cooldown, so fair enough.
Woo great race! I love how Kling clanked when he bottomed out on the high banks. So cool. Monza 10k is one of my favorites in any sim. They should rebuild the high banked oval. I know sports cars at least could handle it even if F1 would never use it.
sound and visceralness in this game is still unsurpassed. Haven't played it for like 20 years but feel like jumping back in. Cool you keep it alive ! Still looks good as well, maybe a touch of Ray Tracing for a bit more reflections and shadow nuance and it'd be perfect.
Excellent wheeling. Once a proficient GPL driver myself, but I doubt I'd have the patience and fortitude to pull that off... Very much akin to an SCCA SRF race.
That was tense glad you took it. Pretty close mouments when the cars got near each other. Again enjoyed the open car race these racers were truly on the line with their lives.
What a cracking race! Seems you always have a better run at the second banked corner through to the straight. All this makes me want to do some racing against the AI (in rFactor 1, though, with the 1958 mod.)
The bankings aren’t abandoned. They have been repaved some years ago and they are being actively used in some motorports events like the Rally show (even though, admittedly, only the lower side of them). That before the bridge after Lesmos is not a chapel but a mausoleum 😄 Bankings are made of concrete because asphalt would slowly drip with time. So it is not a defect, but an actual architectural choice.
That was a booty-clencher of a win! For the championship, I'd say either wrap it here or considering it's 1955 and the history with the circuit in this year, a race at Le Mans.
Fantastic video! The first thing that came to mind for me when you showed the grid was that Ascari wouldn't have been there. He didn't die at Monaco though, he died at Monza four days later, testing a Ferrari sports car.
I would have taken the normal line into Parabolica. You were giving yourself a hard time by tightening the corner too much. Should have forced them to take that line
I was banging my head against the table trying to understand that. It just felt like gaslighting when he pretended the line was normal but”he didn’t have the brakes” I’m only a third through I hope it doesn’t ruin the race.
@@beenton8066 : Jake said that he was afraid of getting rear-ended by the AI if he took the normal line, since he was finding that he had to brake slightly earlier than them to make the Parabolica without going off the track. Might have been a car setup issue - not sure.
Yay ! Nice racing ! I enjoy watching you so much in those 50s cars that I'll probably explore them on my own. On question though : Ahhhh, the infamous Parabolica! I too struggle a lot with this corner. But, aren't you compromising it by keeping to the right when entering ? I understand that you're defending but I wonder if letting your opponents take the dive and have them shed the excess speed could yeld better results... (Of course, this doesn't translate so well with modern F1 cars where the braking power is insane). Thanks again for this very entertaning stuff :)
just 2 cents: - do not change next higher gear until you revs are not very near the max (red line). temps are all looking good, the engine works fine. i can see you change from 4 to 5 way to soon. look in the mirror what happens after you got into the 5th gear. gonzales is closing in. always. - do not take the tighter turns from inside, only if the opponent is on the outside. you could carry more speed into those turns if you go high, then tight and wide again. but you know this facts mate :) im am sure. just remembering what a good friend of my, remembers me sometimes. nice video!
@@flare2000x dont think so, they would both have 0 pts from final round, and since only best 5 results count for the championship, it would stay as it is after Monza.
Do Montjuïc! It's a fantastic circuit and was used for other races in that period. I ended my 1955 campaign there, it works very well as long as you speed the AI up a bit.
That was a fun one. It's slightly frustrating how the AI puts you on the back foot sometimes. And that Mercedes streamliner is a good bit heavier than any of the other cars, so it makes even less sense that it, too, could outbrake you. As for a season finale, I've seen the comments suggesting Montjuich Park. I mean, if we knew Pedralbes was coming somewhat soon, I might say you should wait, but in this case, I don't know about that. I'm not sure how these cars would go around Montjuich; I'd estimate that the 1937 GP cars could do as low as a 1 min, 50 sec lap there, and those cars tended to be faster than the 2.5-liter F1 cars, just because of the power and torque they had. So I'm not as sure how much fun that would be, not to mention how much you might struggle trying to wrestle the car around Montjuich. So, as another alternative, but also something that isn't just really "easy" be comparison, I thought of the 1959 Portuguese GP venue, Monsanto Park in Lisbon.
You would find you would take the right handers a lot easier if you kept to the outside then take the inside halfway through the corner, & you would carry more speed going through the corner. You keep on loosing placings on those corners. But hay you won , so well done.
Amazing race I love this series they got me into GPL and the 55 mod! great win!! I vote for the last race to be Montjuic as it is in Barcelona like Pedralbes is.
Great race !!! What a battle you had with Kling, Gonsales and Ascari . I kept wondering why you were taking that line approaching the Parabolica, lol. My vote for the Spanish Grand Prix, Montjuic . Take care :)
AX-LE-SON! AX-LE-SON! AX-LE-SON! Fantastic race, very enjoyable to watch. I think the AI are guided by 'be fastest at all times' but IRL I think there might be more cat-and-mouse to the finish line, particularly with the advantage given by drafting. Regardless a thrilling result and it's set up a sensational finale with Ritchie just one point ahead of old man Fangio. It's amazing that GPL can provide this much entertainment 20+ years after its release. How many other games from 1998 achieved as much?
It might be the American in me, but I wish they redid the oval and the merge onto it, and used the full course again. I'd love to see Modern F1 cars zooming around Monza's banks.
What a race! Reminds me of CART on superspeedways in the 90s. Regarding he final Grand Prix - honestly, I'd like to see Pescara or Porto (both are in GPL Track Database) :-) Montjuïc may be too difficult to drive and to pass in '55 cars. You may expect similar AI performace as at Monaco or Nurburgring. Pedralbes was way more easier. If you want to be as precise historically as possible - choose Syracuse instead - a similar track which actually hosted Grand Prix that year in October (although not counted to the World Championship of Drivers).
Hope Pedralbes will come out someday, but I don't feel like it would come out soon or maybe at all... so I'd choose Montjuïc for the last round, even if it would be a painful choice for the overheating drum brakes with all these downhill sweeps.
Hi R. Axelson I am new to this game here and have just bought original game on e-bay but when I try to get Mod for the game I can not make it work greeting John from Denmark
I'm not an expert, so this is more of a question than stating a fact. Especially the line GPLaps takes through Parabolica seems very tight. Even too tight. A lot more deceleration is needed to be able to make the turn, right? Yes, the distance traveled is also shorter, but clearly (watching what happens in this race) the higher speed more than makes up for it. I get that the AI might have some superhuman skills, but the human clearly is struggling and still doing the same thing over and over again. To cover the inside? But why so aggressively? Would the AI try to squeeze in there if he left half a cars width more room there? Same with the 1st part of Lesmo, always really tight with no room on the inside. He could try to make his car wider, so to speak.
And immediately on the next lap he changes the lines and it works out better! Maybe I should have just waited before commenting. I'll leave it here for the algorithm anyway.
Sorry for the late comment, but does anyone know how to install this mod? Is there a specific mod manager I need? I've tried by myself and looked in forums and all that but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
This site has some readme information on what you will need to install the mod. It can be a little tricky at first but its worth it. Basically you need an installation of GPL and then the tool "GEM+". GEM is a mod manager of sorts. From there you can install the 1955 mod and select it to use in GEM. 55f1.gplworld.de/
"Gentleman" Richie Axelson was always my favourite old-time Grand Prix driver. Great to see this rare in-car footage from 1955.
Glad to have this back! Let’s hope Fangio’s tired after a night on the Italian wine...
What a race! Knew you had to be in second place coming out of parabolica to win, so it was soo intense hoping you wouldn't loose too many positions as came out the corner! Amazing to watch!
One of my favourite things on TH-cam.
1955 spa race was particularly special and sparked my interest in the era.
Thanks for your continued stellar content.
No safety at all, but pure driving bravery those early F1 times were made of! And even if here we are "just" in a sim: You should be given a gold medal for this one, GPLaps! 👍👍👍
I’ve waited so long for this specific video hahaha
That was a blast to watch. Enjoyed it completely.
Im gonna have to watch the whole season again to remember what happened
What an incredible race! I was absolutely enthralled from start to finish, anyone could have won it!
This channel is gold. Always worth the wait
Montjuic is beautiful, and probably my favorite street circuit. It's fast, has lot's of elevation changes, and pretty much every type of corner you could imagine. No idea how the AI perform there, though.
No game will ever feel as epic as grand prix legends, I can feel the adrenaline of driving a missile with wheels
This is shuch a great period in the sport's history. I wish we had more representation in modern sims. Like the Fangio years from 1950 to 1958. These cars are amazing! And GPL does not support VR... Nor decent graphics XD
Reiza, you are up!
Really exciting race! Old Monza living up to its reputation
We used to call GPL "the king of sims" back in the day. After seeing this race I truly think it stil deserves that title. This was so exciting man, I was cheering at my desk when you took that checkered flag!!! Loving your content !
Great vid. Almost a quater of a century since the release of GPL. I remember downloading the demo (on dial-up). Praise be to the modders and to the players that keep the spiritual monarch of all sim racing alive! Long live GPL!
Great to finally see this come up. Great win!
About the championship, if I were you I'd race at Montjuic, bc at the end of the day both were street circuits in Barcelona, so it would be the best choice in my opinion. The other main option? Maybe going for an unrealistic track for this type of championship, like Daytona, Indianapolis or Bathurst (if there are older versions of them available). You can also call it a championship, but I think this 1955 season deserves a proper ending, especially with you and Fangio being so close in the standings.
Montjuic was exactly my idea. haha. would be awesome
Is that Montjuic at 54:16?
Good to see you back! 🍾🇵🇹 I started my own series inspired by you! And once again please carry on with 1966 season! Cheers.
40:45 - you can hear the backmarkers going under the banking.
Nice catch 👌🏻
Wife: But but the real F1 GP of Turk is today
Me: Meh
Thanks to the rain it wasn't bad at all!
You missed a fun one!
I'm so happy everytime i see new upload here. Now i just wish as christmas present a continuing of R. Axelson F1 campaign in 1966 season with some Sportscars/Can Am/F2 races during free F1 weekends :D
PS: Great race from start to finish!
Here here!
No idea why you kept taking the inside line out of Ascari and into Parabolica to make a tight curve even tighter. No wonder you were passed so often there. However, amazing win, and great stuff behind too. Tense! [edit] Of course you talked about that on the cooldown, so fair enough.
I was wondering the same thing during the race but yeah he explained it.
Woo great race! I love how Kling clanked when he bottomed out on the high banks. So cool. Monza 10k is one of my favorites in any sim. They should rebuild the high banked oval. I know sports cars at least could handle it even if F1 would never use it.
Excellent! Great to see Richie Axelson back!
Totally awesome racing. What a sim GPL still is.
of all your recent vids, this one was easily my fave. my butt was clenched for 50 minutes straight. niiiiiice.
sound and visceralness in this game is still unsurpassed. Haven't played it for like 20 years but feel like jumping back in. Cool you keep it alive ! Still looks good as well, maybe a touch of Ray Tracing for a bit more reflections and shadow nuance and it'd be perfect.
Excellent wheeling. Once a proficient GPL driver myself, but I doubt I'd have the patience and fortitude to pull that off... Very much akin to an SCCA SRF race.
What a amazing race tu had there! Really made feel like Re installling gpl, getting this mod and getting myself a wheel
Do it man!! His videos made me do that 4 months ago and I've been playing non-stop since!!
This track remains my favourite for online races in GPL in any mod! Greta great race and video. Thank you.
What an incredible race!
Great high pressure driving , Jake, excellent :)
That was tense glad you took it. Pretty close mouments when the cars got near each other. Again enjoyed the open car race these racers were truly on the line with their lives.
The first nine in less than three seconds! That's closer than Monza '71!! ;-)
What a cracking race! Seems you always have a better run at the second banked corner through to the straight. All this makes me want to do some racing against the AI (in rFactor 1, though, with the 1958 mod.)
Great video, very exciting racing 👍
Fantastic race! So glad to see this series continue and would love to see a final race of the season.
The 1955 season continues!!!
The bankings aren’t abandoned. They have been repaved some years ago and they are being actively used in some motorports events like the Rally show (even though, admittedly, only the lower side of them).
That before the bridge after Lesmos is not a chapel but a mausoleum 😄
Bankings are made of concrete because asphalt would slowly drip with time. So it is not a defect, but an actual architectural choice.
That was a booty-clencher of a win! For the championship, I'd say either wrap it here or considering it's 1955 and the history with the circuit in this year, a race at Le Mans.
Fantastic video! The first thing that came to mind for me when you showed the grid was that Ascari wouldn't have been there. He didn't die at Monaco though, he died at Monza four days later, testing a Ferrari sports car.
That's going to be a exciting season finale.
I really hope we get Pedrables very soon. December/Christmas is not that far away :)
I would have taken the normal line into Parabolica. You were giving yourself a hard time by tightening the corner too much. Should have forced them to take that line
I was banging my head against the table trying to understand that. It just felt like gaslighting when he pretended the line was normal but”he didn’t have the brakes” I’m only a third through I hope it doesn’t ruin the race.
@@beenton8066 : Jake said that he was afraid of getting rear-ended by the AI if he took the normal line, since he was finding that he had to brake slightly earlier than them to make the Parabolica without going off the track. Might have been a car setup issue - not sure.
Absolute gold, super yt channel.
What a race! Thanks for continuing this season, one of the best things on youtube.
The nearest track to Pedralbes in layout terms is Reims. Which would be a thrillride in these heavy 55s.
Great racing!!!
Thanks for posting. I was on the edge of my seat. I'm not sure if it's because of or in spite of the AI.
Yay ! Nice racing ! I enjoy watching you so much in those 50s cars that I'll probably explore them on my own. On question though : Ahhhh, the infamous Parabolica! I too struggle a lot with this corner. But, aren't you compromising it by keeping to the right when entering ? I understand that you're defending but I wonder if letting your opponents take the dive and have them shed the excess speed could yeld better results... (Of course, this doesn't translate so well with modern F1 cars where the braking power is insane). Thanks again for this very entertaning stuff :)
Unfortunately I had to take the inside because the AI would rear-end me around the outside. Otherwise great fighting!
@@GPLaps ahah! Makes sens, forgot how random the AI can be in GPLegends. Thanks for the reply!
just 2 cents:
- do not change next higher gear until you revs are not very near the max (red line). temps are all looking good, the engine works fine. i can see you change from 4 to 5 way to soon. look in the mirror what happens after you got into the 5th gear. gonzales is closing in. always.
- do not take the tighter turns from inside, only if the opponent is on the outside. you could carry more speed into those turns if you go high, then tight and wide again. but you know this facts mate :) im am sure. just remembering what a good friend of my, remembers me sometimes. nice video!
unfortunately the ai rear end you in the racing line into parabolica
That was a fantastic race, thank you, gg
If it was me, it wouldn't matter where the final race was... I'd be going full Turn One Senna mode on Fangio!
I think Fangio would win in that case due to the dropped results?
@@flare2000x dont think so, they would both have 0 pts from final round, and since only best 5 results count for the championship, it would stay as it is after Monza.
Do Montjuïc! It's a fantastic circuit and was used for other races in that period. I ended my 1955 campaign there, it works very well as long as you speed the AI up a bit.
That track is insanely difficult. I cannot get around well enough in the 69 mod. It's fun, but I'm too slow. My best is 1:29.1 and the ai does 1:26's
Woo! I was waiting so long for this episode!
Finally another race :)
An intense race ...to say the least....Well done!!!
Maybe do the last race at Montjuich Park? Also in Barcelona, also a street circuit, so quite similar in terms of layout
That was a fun one.
It's slightly frustrating how the AI puts you on the back foot sometimes. And that Mercedes streamliner is a good bit heavier than any of the other cars, so it makes even less sense that it, too, could outbrake you.
As for a season finale, I've seen the comments suggesting Montjuich Park. I mean, if we knew Pedralbes was coming somewhat soon, I might say you should wait, but in this case, I don't know about that.
I'm not sure how these cars would go around Montjuich; I'd estimate that the 1937 GP cars could do as low as a 1 min, 50 sec lap there, and those cars tended to be faster than the 2.5-liter F1 cars, just because of the power and torque they had. So I'm not as sure how much fun that would be, not to mention how much you might struggle trying to wrestle the car around Montjuich.
So, as another alternative, but also something that isn't just really "easy" be comparison, I thought of the 1959 Portuguese GP venue, Monsanto Park in Lisbon.
Incredible race, nail biter to the finish.
You would find you would take the right handers a lot easier if you kept to the outside then take the inside halfway through the corner, & you would carry more speed going through the corner. You keep on loosing placings on those corners. But hay you won , so well done.
Amazing race I love this series they got me into GPL and the 55 mod! great win!! I vote for the last race to be Montjuic as it is in Barcelona like Pedralbes is.
Great job , you've done nice ! Good !
my heart was racing too
Great race !!! What a battle you had with Kling, Gonsales and Ascari . I kept wondering why you were taking that line approaching the Parabolica, lol. My vote for the Spanish Grand Prix, Montjuic . Take care :)
All virtual race gods by your side here winning even with wrong approaches to lesmos 1 and parabolica 🤣🤣
Yeah I was wondering about that too but he explains at the end that the ai would rear-end him if he took the best line through the apex.
AX-LE-SON! AX-LE-SON! AX-LE-SON!
Fantastic race, very enjoyable to watch. I think the AI are guided by 'be fastest at all times' but IRL I think there might be more cat-and-mouse to the finish line, particularly with the advantage given by drafting.
Regardless a thrilling result and it's set up a sensational finale with Ritchie just one point ahead of old man Fangio.
It's amazing that GPL can provide this much entertainment 20+ years after its release. How many other games from 1998 achieved as much?
I’ve always wondered if the Mercedes team got any negativity from old war vets. This was only a decade after WW2 ended after all.
I think all German teams were banned until 1954 or something like that. Before the war Auto Union (audi) and Mercedes were almost unbeatable.
hype!
Thrilling
Excelente!!!
great race
It might be the American in me, but I wish they redid the oval and the merge onto it, and used the full course again. I'd love to see Modern F1 cars zooming around Monza's banks.
What a race! Reminds me of CART on superspeedways in the 90s.
Regarding he final Grand Prix - honestly, I'd like to see Pescara or Porto (both are in GPL Track Database) :-)
Montjuïc may be too difficult to drive and to pass in '55 cars. You may expect similar AI performace as at Monaco or Nurburgring. Pedralbes was way more easier.
If you want to be as precise historically as possible - choose Syracuse instead - a similar track which actually hosted Grand Prix that year in October (although not counted to the World Championship of Drivers).
Heck yeah indeed! Great race!!!
Correct me if I'm wrong , but the only place you were slow was into the parabolica.
I would say to look for another finale track, if we don't know when the Spanish track will be available
Holy shit, that was intense!
Hope Pedralbes will come out someday, but I don't feel like it would come out soon or maybe at all... so I'd choose Montjuïc for the last round, even if it would be a painful choice for the overheating drum brakes with all these downhill sweeps.
Fun to watch. Practice your "parabolica". Try different gear ratios for 2nd and 3rd. Good luck
Would be kind of fun to have an American race maybe Indianapolis Watkins Glen 1948 Sebring is tons of different choices
Get in there GPLaps!
First F1 race on the banking ever. It was new that year.
I love the w196
You had some huge runs out of the oval which I don't think were just the draft. Your setup may have been on point for the oval this run.
that was exciting
watching this at 3x the speeds are ginormous
Hi R. Axelson
I am new to this game here and have just bought original game on e-bay but when I try to get Mod for the game I can not make it work greeting John from Denmark
it requires some patience but its worth the effort.
Check this guide I installed it using this and works great. gplworld.de/en/grand-prix-legends/gpl-easy-installation-guide
You're on the wrong line through Parabolica. Look where the rubber has been laid under braking and cornering. That's where the most grip is.
What about indy 500? Which used to be an F1 race back in the 50s
oh hell yeah.
Who is N. Farina? Thought it should be G. Farina.
They don't appear to be using their drag reduction system. (ducking down behind the wind screen) Perhaps there was no real advantage to doing so...
you drive good
great race, it was more interesting if you show current laptime
24:30 ooooffff scary
I'm not an expert, so this is more of a question than stating a fact.
Especially the line GPLaps takes through Parabolica seems very tight. Even too tight. A lot more deceleration is needed to be able to make the turn, right? Yes, the distance traveled is also shorter, but clearly (watching what happens in this race) the higher speed more than makes up for it.
I get that the AI might have some superhuman skills, but the human clearly is struggling and still doing the same thing over and over again. To cover the inside? But why so aggressively? Would the AI try to squeeze in there if he left half a cars width more room there?
Same with the 1st part of Lesmo, always really tight with no room on the inside.
He could try to make his car wider, so to speak.
And immediately on the next lap he changes the lines and it works out better! Maybe I should have just waited before commenting.
I'll leave it here for the algorithm anyway.
YESSSS
They actually use the oval in rally monza! Rally cars race on it
Would it be possible to simulate the 1955 LeMans disaster?
At last!
Sorry for the late comment, but does anyone know how to install this mod? Is there a specific mod manager I need? I've tried by myself and looked in forums and all that but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
This site has some readme information on what you will need to install the mod. It can be a little tricky at first but its worth it. Basically you need an installation of GPL and then the tool "GEM+". GEM is a mod manager of sorts. From there you can install the 1955 mod and select it to use in GEM. 55f1.gplworld.de/
@@GPLaps I actually installed gem, yet was not able to give it access to either the game or the mod, I'm probally missing a file somewhere.
It suggest joining srmz.net and posting over there. Very active forum of guys who always help out.
@@GPLaps Alright, thank you for the quick reply.