GP4: F1 2024 mod v1.7 Christmas update - 2024 cars by fongu

I've got a special release this Christmas, and it comes in the form of the 2024 F1 mod update. 

I know, the last update was only yesterday and it seemed pretty complete, and it is. But this is Christmas, and I'm in a generous mood!

At the beginning of the season, I released the Red Bull RB20, but I've only released a handful of other 2024 cars since then, the McLaren and then the Sauber. 

For this festive season, I want to share with you every car I've made for 2024... and that is every car on the 2024 grid, with a heap of special liveries and track specific logo updates. I couldn't have done it alone, my thanks to GM25, Excalibur (Ferrari) and Paulo Derpich (updates to McLaren and Red Bull) for helping along in this process. 

I'm very appreciative of all the GP4 authors, and in no way do I want to replace any of the existing works already in the mod. But you can run none of my cars, you can run only my cars, or you can mix and match; this mod enables you to select each car author in the CSM menu, giving you hundreds of variations you can try, much like in my 2011 mod. 

Here's a quick preview of what you will get in this update:

Alpine A524

2024 Alpine A524 by fongu for GP4

Alpine ran a number of liveries over the course of the season, tweaking it as the season progressed. The team ran either the pink variant or the blue variant for most Grand Prix. At the final three races of the season, Alpine went 'all pink' with a plain livery. The team also ran two special liveries at the Belgian GP and the USA GP. Both were promotions for the Deadpool vs Wolverine film and the Indiana Jones game. As the livery and logo placements were tweaked through the year, I've attempted to create as many variants as I can. 

Aston Martin AMR24

2024 Aston Martin AMR24 by fongu for GP4

Aston Martin largely ran the same livery and sponsor combinations for most the season, with different partners being featured on the halo at each race (I've not captured all of these minor changes). The team ran additional Aramco colours on their wings at the USA GP, and the last couple of races saw the team run a white rollover hoop. 

2024 Ferrari SF24

2024 Ferrari SF24 by fongu & Excalibur for GP4

Ferrari reintroduced yellow into the main livery to match the endurance racing team, which was a really nice touch. The team gained HP sponsorship from the Miami GP onwards, with a special 'blue' livery ran at the US race. Both Carlos and Leclerc ran slightly different colour halos and car number outlines. The Peroni logo being replaced by Tifosi or Italia in the Middle East races, a nice reminder when the teams in the 1990s were creative with their non-tobacco sponsorship. The Italian GP saw the team celebrate carbon-fibre, and the driver numbers were made black to reflect it. 

This car was created by Excalibur, it's actually his RSCT template car, and I've simply painted on his template and releasing  it now with his blessing. 

Haas VF-24

2024 Haas VF-24 by fongu for GP4

Haas were one of the teams running minimal livery, the car being almost entirely unpainted carbon fibre. For the race in Austin, the team ran a special eagle inspired livery, whilst at the Las Vegas GP, there were more subtle changes made to the car. The team struck a partnership with Toyota Gazoo Racing towards the later half of the year and those liveries have been created for this mod. 

Mercedes F1 W15 E Performance

2024 Mercedes F1 W15 E Performance by fongu for GP4

The Mercedes have flicked between all silver or all black in recent years, and this year saw them run both. The red from the Ineos branding remains a constant, with the blue from Petronas becoming more prominent as the season progressed. The only proper special livery was at the Singapore GP where the silver and blue parts of the livery swapped to celebrate Petronas.

Red Bull RB20

2024 Red Bull RB20 by fongu for GP4

Whilst the opening rounds suggested the season may be a foregone conclusion, the team struggled to make the car competitive at every race. It meant that planned special liveries were cancelled except for the British GP where they ran a 'red camo' livery. Thanks again goes to Paulo Derpich for creating some of the other race variants. 

Sauber C44

2024 Sauber C44 by fongu for GP4

I already released the Sauber in the previous mod update. In this update, I've made the Stake logos a little larger and closer to real life. I've also created the flaming Las Vegas GP livery. As it was a night race, I've decided to emphasise how bright the green looks on occasion. 

RB VCARB 01

2024 VCARB by fongu for GP4

VCARB returned to the brighter blue as seen on the later Toro Rosso cars before they were briefly known as Alpha Tauri. The team ran three special liveries during the season, the first at the Miami GP known as the 'bubblegum' livery. At the Singapore GP, they celebrated denim, with ripped jeans look and a massive zip, (reminding some of the 1999 BAR). Having done a number of denim helmets in recent years, getting the effect and stitching wasn't too difficult. And at the Las Vegas GP, the team went all 'glitter' with another bright design. At the Saudi Arabian GP, the team honoured the female team-members with their names featured on the side of the car. 

Williams FW46

2024 Williams FW46 by fongu for GP4

The 2024 Williams continued to run a couple of shades of blue, but with an added touch of heritage with the red and white stripes for their main livery. The team featured the Duracell bunny on the rollover hoop at the Monaco GP, whilst for the British GP they ran a massive Union Flag (technically it's only called the Union Jack when it's on the seas) with team member names written on it. After Logan Sargeant was dropped, the team were bold to call up Franco Colapinto as his replacement and that brought a number of South American backers to the car. This lead to the return of the yellow engine cover, a nod to the late 1980's/early 1990s liveries. 

McLaren MCL38

2024 McLaren MCL38 by fongu for GP4

There's nothing new from me on the McLaren in this update, but Paulo Derpich has complated the late season sponsor merry-go-round and the Mastercard logos becoming more and more prominent with every race. Thanks to him for his hard work making sure every race is accurately represented. Thankfully for me, there's no new special liveries since my release of this car, but for completeness, I wanted to show them off again here. Congratulations to the McLaren team for securing the Constructors' Championship for the first time since 1998. 

Phew, that concludes one of my most ambitious projects I've ever taken on for a current F1 season, along with the entire grid of helmets and a selection of special lids already released, I'm glad to share the complete pack with you on this special day, I hope you enjoy racing these cars with their various liveries through the season. 

Installation Notes

This update requires 2024 F1 mod previously released on this blog here: 
https://fongugp4.blogspot.com/2024/08/gp4-f1-2024-mod-v10.html

• Download both the 2024 CSM mod updates below

CSM update - 2024 CMU24 update 8 v1.7
CSM update - 2024 CMU24 update 9 v1.7
CSM update - 2024 CMU24 update 10 v1.7b

• Open CSM
• File | Install new carset template | select F1_2024_CMU24_update8_v1.7.cmu
• File | Install new carset template | select F1_2024_CMU24_update9_v1.7.cmu
• File | Install new carset template | select F1_2024_CMU24_update10_v1.7b.cmu

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Below are some screenshots of the cars in GP4 at the Singapore GP, which featured a number of special liveries. 

GP4: F1 2024 mod v1.6 update

I want to wish you all a very happy Christmas. 

Here's an update to the 2024 mod that brings us to the end of the season. 

In this update we have another update to the Williams by Excalibur. 

Thanks to jcgrj, we have the 2024 McLaren MCL38 Mercedes sounds added as an option to the 2024 mod. 

Thanks to Öggo for the visor colour tweak that was recently released. 

Thanks to Gitanes for the performance pack for the entire season. 

Thanks as well to Paulo Derpich and his many updates to every car this season, bringing many track specific liveries including Alpine, Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, VCARB and the Williams. Great work. 

From my side, I've added a few new helmets, Lando Norris' dark helmet used at the final three races, Verstappen's USA helmet that he ran at all three American races, and I've also painted his World Champion helmet with the four World Championship stars on the rear. I've created Hulkenberg's helmet that he used at night races and Russell's white helmet that he used in Qatar. There's also Hamilton and Russell's helmets from the Abu Dhabi GP, as well as Jack Doohan's debut race helmet in the Alpine. 

The mod has also been updated with Jack racing at the final race in place of Esteban Ocon, and you'll find all the usual updates to team arts, CSM previews, performance files etc. 

Thank you all for your support in 2024, I hope you enjoy this update.

Installation Notes

This update requires 2024 F1 mod previously released on this blog here: 
https://fongugp4.blogspot.com/2024/08/gp4-f1-2024-mod-v10.html

• Download both the 2024 CSM mod updates below

CSM update - 2024 CMU24 update 6 v1.6
CSM update - 2024 CMU24 update 7 v1.6

• Open CSM
• File | Install new carset template | select F1_2024_CMU24_update6_v1.6.cmu
• File | Install new carset template | select F1_2024_CMU24_update7_v1.6.cmu

I hope you all have a great New Year, where we look forward to another exciting F1 Season as well as more progress in GP4 modding. 

Happy Racing. 

GP4: 2023 Williams FW45 v1.1 released - Gulf livery

I'm pleased to announce that the my 2023 Williams FW45 for Grand Prix 4 now includes the Gulf livery. 

Williams held a competition, initially inviting fans to submit their livery suggestions, narrowing it down to four final entries, and having a fan vote the final livery. This livery was designated 'bolder than bold', which blends the classic livery style with the current Williams geometric shapes. 

The livery made its debut at the Singapore GP, which was a night race held under flood lights, and will continue to be used at the Japanese GP, which looked great in the daylight, and the upcoming Qatar GP, which will be another night race. 

It took me quite a while to get the livery right on this one, but I'm pleased with the result and it really stands out on a full grid. The drivers' race suits have also been modified to Gulf colours and branding, all of which are included in this updated pack. 

For all the 2023 content for GP4, I've tried to compile a list of links here: link

GP4: 2023 Williams FW45 by fongu download

It feels like 2021 again, working on the Aston Martin and now releasing the Williams. I'm glad to be able to share this beauty with you, with a refined geometric blue livery, with the Williams light blue and slight red accents. But surely the best bit of the livery is the integration of the Duracell livery on the rollover bar, pioneered at a few races back in 2022. 

Another sponsor added to the car is Gulf, and at Singapore they will race a fan voted special livery. But I will wait until the race happens before releasing that one. 

But they did run one other special livery and that was at the British GP where the team celebrated their 800th GP. Fittingly, it was at their home race. As well has having 800 placed on the car, they also put on a partial blue Union flag on the engine cover. 

Williams have banked their hopes on their giant killing performances by creating a low drag car with great traction out of slow corners. It's allowed Alex Albon in particular to qualify well at low downforce tracks and hold off the rest of the pack by looking after his tyres. Going down this niche route is not new, but it has elevated them to 7th in the Constructors' Championship to date. 

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this car in GP4, here's a few in-game screenshots and below that, the download link. 

For all the 2023 content for GP4, I've tried to compile a list of links here: link

GP4: Hungarian GP and Aston Martin helmets updated in 2022 helmet pack

I for one am glad for the F1 summer break, not least because it gives me a bit of a break from helmet creating, but it also allows me a bit more time to get the helmets completed without rushing too much. So this update is a little later than usual, but I hope you don't mind. 

Sebastian Vettel - Hungarian GP

Sebastian Vettel 2022 Hungarian GP 'Lego' Helmet

Seb rocked up to Budapest with a lego themed helmet, with the slogan 'let the children play'. It's not the first lego themed helmet he's had, but sadly the Ferrari version never made it to a race. For this one, I actually borrowed some of my children's lego and recreated some of the parts of the helmet, some of it taken straight off photos, some of it recreated from vectors. It wasn't the easiest to put together, but I'm pretty pleased with the result. I had to change the seams a bit along the top to accomodate the overspill of lego over the aramco colours. The Sentinel logo keeps moving about in the last few races, having now seemingly settled on the sides. 

Nicholas Latifi - Hungarian GP

Nicholas Latifi 2022 Hungarian GP Helmet

Latifi's not had the best of seasons, but did manage to bag the fastest time in one of the practice sessions at the Hungarian GP weekend, on a wet but drying track. Having run essentially the same helmet design since entering F1, he's swapped out the blue for an all red and white design. Goatifi's days in F1 seem to be drawing to a close,we'll wait and see if he runs anymore special lids before the close of the season. 

Aston Martin - French GP

Included in this update are the French GP variations of the Aston Martin helmets. Both drivers had to cover over the crypto logos, and run alternative Peroni branding on the visor. I've taken some time to make some improvements to Stroll's helmet in general too, and I've his standard helmet in this update as well. Here's a quick preview of the French GP lid. 

Lance Stroll 2022 French GP helmet

These are done on Jvinu's helmet shapes and templates and the helmets are free to be converted to other ACSPRH compatible games, just include me in the credits. 

Download Link | (mirror)

Over on Race Department, Vullracer has begun converting my helmets to Assetto Corsa and you can download them now https://www.racedepartment.com

I'm grateful for all your support in using these helmets on different platforms, it keeps me going when the motivation is lacking. 

Enjoy these helmets and have a great summer break.

GP4: 2021 Car Livery updates

Having completed the helmets for 2021, I have turned my attention back to the cars and updated some of the liveries to the end of the season. 

2021 Mercedes-AMG F1 W12 E-Performance

I've updated the car driven by Bottas at the final race, emblazoned with Kiitos logos, the team saying thanks to Valterri for his contributions over the past couple of seasons. His number has returned to a blue outline, and I amended his race suit (not that you can really tell). 

2021 Williams FW43B

Just one livery added to the final full season pack for the Williams team. They were promoting the new King's Man film and those logos have been added to the various places on the car, including the halo. 

2021 Aston Martin AMR21

Two liveries have been added to this pack, in Saudi Arabia they could not run alcoholic advertisements. In Abu Dhabi, they added Juniper Networks logo to the halo which is also included in this pack. 

Thanks for the support throughout the year, 2021 has seen some great breakthroughs and lots of great content released that has in part revitalised the GP4 community and I'm glad to have played a small part to that. We all do this for the love of the sport and the game and to enjoy ourselves and have a good time, so I hope my contributions bring some joy to this ancient game.