GP4: 2023 AlphaTauri AT04 by fongu download

I'm proud to present to you my latest offering for the 2023 season, the Red Bull junior team's Scuderia AlphaTauri AT04. 

Powered by the Honda power unit, this car has not been particularly competitive in 2023. Honda protege, Yuki Tsunoda leads the team in his third season and has been solid and quietly impressive at points. But it still remains to be seen how good a talent he is. The Red Bull family were quick to snap up Dutch driver, Nyck de Vries after his impressive stand-in performance for Williams the previous year. The former Formula E champion struggled in the car and was dropped from the team after only competing 10 Grand Prix. 

This lead the way to a return for Daniel Ricciardo, however he broke his wrist avoiding a t-bone situation with Oscar Piastri's crashed McLaren. With no room to avoid the accident, he had no choice but to crash into the wall himself. 

Rather than call Nyck back for his home race, long-term Red Bull junior, Liam Lawson fills the seat until Ricciardo is fit to return. He has performed well given the circumstances, unlucky to miss out on a points finish in his second race at Monza. 

The team have had some striking liveries since being rebranded from Toro Rosso, with no two seasons showing any continuity other than the white and blue colour scheme and the AlphaTauri logo largely plastered onto the engine cover. This year's livery features the biggest Alpha Tauri logo yet, and it's designed to be perfect from a side angle. That means I had to manually paint the logo from scratch to get it to fit the shape properly. Similarly for the front wing, I found it easier to draw it from scratch than chop up the logo as it's split over three seperate wing elements. 

I'm pleased with how this car has turned out. I know that Isaint has released his own version of this car already, but I was already quite advanced in my own version by then and decided to finish and release it for you guys. This car comes with liveries for all four drivers.

Here's the download link, and some screenshots on F1Virtual's beautiful Sochi race track. 

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

GP4: 2023 Aston Martin AMR23 updated - v1.1 released by fongu

 

I've completed an update on the Aston Martin - apologies, but you'll need to download it again. 

There were a few parts around the halo and the cockpit that were a little bit rushed and bypassed my quality control. It's a lot better now. I've also lowered the driver body which was clipping the bottom of the helmets. 

Here's the link:

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: 2023 Aston Martin AMR23 by fongu download

Today, I proudly present to you my first car of from the 2023 season, the Aston Martin AMR23 for GP4. 

The Aston Martin team earned a massive boost up the grid with this challenger, with Fernando Alonso earning regular podium finishes in the early part of the season. To date, the team have dropped down to fourth in the Constructors' Championship as other teams have caught up, but the car remains competitive at certain types of track and it's just great to see a green car doing well.

I also include the special livery from the British Grand Prix, well it was presented as a massive change, but it only really involved more Valvoline branding and the shark fin changing colours. 

Since creating the 2021 car, the team have tweaked the green on their cars. Gone is the metallic and more traditional British Racing Green, and in with a new brighter and matte green. Also I'm glad that the accents are no longer pink. I love the sidepods on this car, with the dramatic tunnel falling down towards the diffuser.

All that's left is to show you some more screenshots and then the download link is down below. Enjoy!

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

GP4: 2023 Helmets August Update

2023 Helmet Pack v1.05

How is it nearly the end of August already? 

Well here's some more helmets, with previews done by Nick9320. 

Before we get going with the liveries, I've actually made further modifications to the helmet shapes, originally created by Jvinu. These amended shapes are compatible with previous helmet sets. The change I've made is to stop the flickering of the visor strip from a distance in GP4. I've basically deleted the overlapping cells. 

First up, we have another new Alpha Tauri driver. Liam has been a Red Bull Junior for a few years now, and this design is slightly different from the one that he's using over in Super Formula this year, both designed by MDM Helmets. There was clearly no time to transfer it over to Alpha Tauri branding, so this helmet may only appear once, but here the helmet as seen at the Dutch GP is now included in the 2023 helmet pack. 

Onto the special Dutch GP helmets now and we Nico Hülkenberg has a new lid, designed by JMD Helmets. It continues the paint splattered theme he's been running this season, but with a brighter blue and a more orangey red to go with the Dutch flag on the sides of his helmet. 

Did you know that the Haas cars always have a little rabbit on them. The reason is that Haas in Dutch is the word for rabbit (or hare). 

Having not run special helmets at either the Austrian or the Belgian GPs as he usually does, Max decided to run an asymmetric colour scheme twist to his usual helmet design, with blue to his right and a deep red to his left. The top of the helmet now has a clear Dutch influence. The Dutchman used this helmet to good effect as he took his ninth consecutive victory. 

Going back to the Belgian GP before the summer break and I noticed two new helmets. The first was worn by Valterri Bottas which, as usual, was designed by his girlfriend Tiffany Cromwell, with various tasty Belgian treats littered on a blue helmet with a ribbon in the colours of the Belgian flag across it. 

Next up we have a unique helmet design for Esteban Ocon, a helmet which is in deference to their sponsor Bell & Ross who are watch-makers. The design is slightly different on each side, and for a sponsor inspired design, it's not a bad one. 

I had missed this earlier in the season. In Azerbaijan, Esteban introduced his red helmet with white lines, which was a little Schumacher inspired. The helmet did appear again during qualifying at the Spanish GP. From the Monaco GP onwards, the white lines turned black, perhaps a little influenced by Spider-Man, and he's been using this as his preferred helmet when he's not running other special liveries. 

All that's left to say is thank you for downloading and enjoying my content. 

Thank you for supporting my blog. 

Thanks to Nick and Jvinu for their efforts in helping me with the helmets. 

As always, check out the rest of the 2023 helmets on this page here, which also has the latest download link: https://fongugp4.blogspot.com/p/gp4-2023-helmets.html

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

GP4: 2009 Track Pack released & Rouen updated by Viking75

Thank you all for visiting my site and making the most of it. Since I've been sharing mods at the beginning of this year, there's been over 10,000 downloads, meaning there's still quite a lot of you still enjoying GP4. 

2009 Track pack

Continuing my project to upload track packs from my collection to you I can now share with you the 2009 track pack. 

A lot of the tracks are graphical updates on the 2008 trackpack from Schueyfan. However we have new F1Virtual tracks included, the excellent Silverstone track update by Willb and the 2009 release of KTC, ToJepo and Tumyeto's Yas Marina track. KTC had worked on a 2009 version of Suzuka which was never completed, but his 2006 track that was picked up by Jcaranti and drt01 for their 2011 version. Jcaranti released the 2010 version and it's this track with 2009 garages, muppets and pitstands updated. 

Circuit	Authors
Australia, Melbourne	Guillermo Capriz, Schueyfan, TTM
Malaysia, Sepang International Circuit	F1Virtual
China, Shanghai International Circuit	32bobo32, Ruboy, Schueyfan
Bahrain, Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir	Guillermo Capriz, F1Virtual
Spain, Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona	F1Virtual
Monaco, Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo	Guillermo Capriz, Schueyfan, gp4free, Caelen, Ricardo Lampert
Turkey, Istanbul Park	Guillermo Capriz, SchueyFan, Schaller, Ruboy
United Kingdom, Silverstone Circuit	willb
Germany, Nürburgring	Guillermo Capriz, Schueyfan, b-tone, marioB
Hungary, Hungaroring	Guillermo Capriz, F1Virtual
Europe, Valencia Street Circuit	Guillermo Capriz, F1Virtual
Belgium, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	F1Virtual
Italy, Autodromo Nazionale di Monza	Guillermo Capriz, Schueyfan, TTM
Singapore, Marina Bay Street Circuit	drt01, Jcaranti, SchueyFan
Japan, Suzuka Circuit	drt01, Jcaranti, SchueyFan, KTC
Brazil, Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	Guillermo Capriz, SchueyFan, Ricardo Lampert, MarioB, erwin_78, Ruboy
United Arab Emirates, Yas Marina Circuit	ToJepo/Tumyeto/KTC

Thanks to all the authors, who were involved in these huge projects, I only compiled them together. 

This trackpack is designed to be used with TSM, which you will need to extract the pack, and can be downloaded as part of Zaz Tools. 

Rouen-les-Essarts Update

I want to thank Viking75 for getting in touch recently and allowing me to share his update on the 1972 Rouen track.  

You can check out his Twitter feed here where he produces videos of GP4 tracks, well worth a watch: https://twitter.com/Viking75309