Monday 29 January 2024

GP4: 2014 Track Pack released


Another week, another track pack! Here's the 2014 compilation I'm pleased to share with you. 

Firstly, it's hard to talk about the 2014 season without remembering Jules Bianchi, whose accident at that year's Japanese GP cause head injuries that would lead to his death some nine months later. The young talent had a Ferrari contract, but was never able to live out his dream. So this release is dedicated to #JB17. 

A new era for Formula 1 was upon us, and a new dominate team, as Mercedes and Hamilton and Rosberg would play out the Championship picture for years to come. The former A1-Ring in Spielberg, Austria came into the possession of Red Bull, who have quickly renamed it the Red Bull Ring, and saw the return of the track to the F1 calendar for the first time since 2003. Another new race track was created in Sochi, Russia, making the most of the Olympic Park site which hosted that  year's Winter Olympic Games. The short-lived Indian Grand Prix was cancelled due to a taxation issue. The Bahrain race took place at night for the first time, to mark the 10th running of the race there. 

RSCT joined the track modding business, and produced the wonderful Red Bull Ring track, initially with a 2015 version and then updated to 2014 by Jcaranti. This was originally based on Schueyfan's track, with much work done by Hega and Gezere.
KTC has created many of the new tracks from this era of F1 and he created the new Sochi track that is featured in this track pack. Klaus Feldmann brings us an updated cc-line for it. 
Tumyeto did a great job in turning the Sakhir track by F1 Virtual, into the night version. 

There's a few substitutes, with the 2012 versions of Interlagos, Yas Marina and Hockenheim and the 2013 version of Montreal and Monza are included in this pack. All of them have had the garages and pitstands updated where the PLUS system is applied. 

Here's a list of authors and contributors, from which I've compiled together into this set. 

Circuit

Author

Australia 
Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne

Jcaranti, F1Virtual, Augustogibim

Malaysia 
Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur

Jcaranti, F1Virtual, Augustogibim

Bahrain
Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir

Jcaranti, Tumyeto, F1 Virtual, Josekast

China 
Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai

Jcaranti, F1Virtual, Augustogibim

Spain 
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló

Jcaranti, F1Virtual, Augustogibim

Monaco 
Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo

Hega, Jcaranti, TTM, MarioB, Ricardo Lampert, Schueyfan, Josekast, drt01

Canada 
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal

F1Virtual, Hega, Schueyfan, TTM

Austria 
Red Bull Ring, Spielberg

Jcaranti, RSCT

United Kingdom 
Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone

Jcaranti, drt01, gildoorf

Germany 
Hockenheimring, Hockenheim

SchueyFan, MarioB, b-tone

Hungary 
Hungaroring, Mogyoród

Jcaranti, F1Virtual

Belgium 
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot

Jcaranti, drt01, Josekast, F1Virtual, Schueyfan

Italy 
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza

Hega, TTM

Singapore 
Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore

drt01, Jcaranti

Japan 
Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka

drt01, Jcaranti, Augustogibim

Russia 
Sochi Autodrom, Sochi

KTC, Klaus Feldmann

United States 
Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas

drt01, Jcaranti

Brazil 
Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo

Jcaranti, Neil Caine, Jucksman, gildoorf, ruboy, prblanco, schueyfan, lo2k

United Arab Emirates 
Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi

JCaranti, Josekast, KTC, Tojepo, Tumyeto


This package is structured to work with TSM, from Zaz Tools. Due to the size of the files, I was unable to package them using TSM. 

To install, simply extract the files into your GP4 directory. If you have the default track directory set in TSM, it should pick up the profiles and tracks straight away.  

Alternatively, these tracks work fine using GPxPatch direct.