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by **Nathan Won** » Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:00:00

I was just wondering why Jackie Stewart would refuse to be included in
GPL. It seems really strange to me considering (I'm going to date myself
here) he was the pitchman for a slot car racing game many, many years
back. I remember when he was selling the slot car set. It was a fast
paced, fast talking type of commercial. I thought it was rather
convincing since I wanted one of the slot car sets with Jackie Stewart
really badly.

Anyway, with GPL all he probably would have been required to do was to
let Papyrus use his name and perhaps a little history of his racing team
and such. He wouldn't even have had to open his mouth. Oh well, such is
life.

Now where's that game editor?

Nathan

by **Lindsay Adam** » Fri, 13 Nov 1998 04:00:00

or it could be that he just wanted too much cash, royalties, percentages of
profit etc. etc. (probably more like your reason though..)

-Lindsay

>>I was just wondering why Jackie Stewart would refuse to be included in
>>GPL.

>It could be that he's holding out to grant exclusive license to some
potential
>future title. Like Mario Andretti racing we would have Jackie Stewart
racing.

>If his name started to appear in every other racing title out there his
name
>would have less value.

>It's probably something like that.

>glen

by **Wolfgang Prei** » Sat, 14 Nov 1998 04:00:00

>I was just wondering why Jackie Stewart would refuse to be included in
>GPL. It seems really strange to me considering (I'm going to date myself
>here) he was the pitchman for a slot car racing game many, many years
>back. I remember when he was selling the slot car set. It was a fast
>paced, fast talking type of commercial. I thought it was rather
>convincing since I wanted one of the slot car sets with Jackie Stewart
>really badly.

>Anyway, with GPL all he probably would have been required to do was to
>let Papyrus use his name and perhaps a little history of his racing team
>and such. He wouldn't even have had to open his mouth. Oh well, such is
>life.

Glen already gave the most likely reason for this.

In the GPL main directory, you'll find a file called driver.ini. Just
subtitute one driver name with Stewart and fiddle a bit with the
parameters to make him behave like you think he should.

Or check the different GPL websites. I seem to remember somebody
already made a patch to include Stewart.

--
Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.

by **Jeff Vince** » Sat, 14 Nov 1998 04:00:00

>or it could be that he just wanted too much cash, royalties, percentages of
>profit etc. etc. (probably more like your reason though..)

>-Lindsay

>>>I was just wondering why Jackie Stewart would refuse to be included in
>>>GPL.

>>It could be that he's holding out to grant exclusive license to some
>potential
>>future title. Like Mario Andretti racing we would have Jackie Stewart
>racing.

>>If his name started to appear in every other racing title out there his
>name
>>would have less value.

>>It's probably something like that.

Yes, it could be simple economics.

Consider this, though. In the late '60s and early '70s, Stewart
was in the forefront of those pushing for greater driver safety
measures. His autobiography "Faster" (with Peter Manso) covers the
1970 season and gives a lot of insight on his mindset (including the
death of close friend Jochen Rindt and several other drivers that
season). He may have been reluctant to put his name on (into) a
product that he felt glorified this dangerous time or trivialized the
mortal peril that the drivers faced. (Consider Sierra's advertising
campaign -- "In 1968 racing was made safer -- welcome to 1967".)

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by **Christian Ro** » Sun, 15 Nov 1998 04:00:00

> ................Or check the different GPL websites. I seem to remember somebody
> already made a patch to include Stewart.

*************************************

I made one that inserts Stewart & Spence in the Team Menu(driver pics), in all the
results, plus their cars will appear with appropriate numbers and name on them...
I didn't adjusted their performances, but it could easily be altered using AI
Tweaks...

The patch is available under the filename "BRMnew1.zip" at "The APEX - Grand Prix
Legends HQ" / http://gpl.gamestats.com/

Enjoy!

Chris Roy

by **Philip M. D'Amat** » Mon, 16 Nov 1998 04:00:00

I'm not up on GP history, but maybe Jackie Stewart sucked in '67, and didn't
wan't to be reminded. (no flames, please - it's just a bad joke!).

Phil

by **David Ewin** » Tue, 17 Nov 1998 04:00:00

> I'm not up on GP history, but maybe Jackie Stewart sucked in '67, and didn't
> wan't to be reminded. (no flames, please - it's just a bad joke!).

Good point. He didn't suck, but his car (BRM) sure did. He had nine
mechanical DNF's out of eleven races! I think I'd want to forget that,
too. The two races he finished, he did well - second at Spa and third at
France.

Dave Ewing

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