Jackie Stewart in GPL

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

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

Quoted text (12 lines)

>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.

Quoted text (22 lines)

>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".) NAR Northeast Regional Contest Board site - points and more...

> ................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

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

> 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