F1 Grand Prix"Looking for Insider Cheat Codes for F1 Grand Prix? " 1) INTRODUCTION Every F1 season goes by and we get the annual release of the F1 games. This year is no different and with the launch of the PSP came F1 Grand Prix. Developed by Travellers Tales the game fares well in most respects. The driving is good, the graphics are good and more importantly the game has been changed to suit the PSP's pick up and have a ten minute blast style.
2) CONTROLS *** Note *** Before you have a race I advise you to go to the options on the main menu and turn Brake Assist off. The game basically guides you round the corners which kind of makes you wonder why you even bought the game. I didn't realise about the brake assist at first which made me wonder why the cars handled like ****. I was trying to turn corners while the game was also turning corners for me! So unless you don't want a challenge I advise you to turn it off. X -> Accellarate More F1 Grand Prix Tips: Square -> Brake Circle -> Handbrake Triangle -> Change Camera View L -> Look Back R -> Brake Start- Pause Select- Next Song 3) DRIVER INFORMATION (All info correct at start of 2005 season.) More F1 Grand Prix Tips: 3.1 - * Ferrari * Michael Schumacher First GP: 1991 Points: 1186 Rubens Barrichello First GP: 1993 Points: 451 3.2 - * BMW Williams * Mark Webber First GP: 2002 Points: 26 Nick Heidfeld First GP: 2000 More F1 Grand Prix Tips: Points: 29 3.3 - * McLaren Mercedes * Kimi Raikkonen First GP: 2001 Points: 169 Juan Pablo Montoya First GP: 2001 Points: 221 3.4 - * Renault * Fernando Alonso First GP: 2001 Points: 114 More F1 Grand Prix Tips: Giancarlo Fisichella First GP: 1996 Points: 116 3.5 - * BAR Honda * Jenson Button First GP: 2000 Points: 130 Takuma Sato First GP: 2002 Points: 39 3.6 - * Sauber Petronas * Jacques Villeneuve More F1 Grand Prix Tips: First GP: 1996 Points: 216 Felipe Massa First GP: 2002 Points: 16 3.7 - * Red Bull Racing * David Coulthard First GP: 1994 Points: 476 Christian Klien More F1 Grand Prix Tips: First GP: 2004 Points: 3 3.8 - * Toyota * Jarno Trulli First GP: 1997 Points: 114 Ralf Schumacher First GP: 1997 Points: 259 More F1 Grand Prix Tips: 3.9 - * Jordan * Tiago Monteiro First GP: 2005 Points: 0 Narain Karthikeyan First GP: 2005 Points: 0 3.10 - * Minardi * Patrick Friesacher More F1 Grand Prix Tips: First GP: 2005 Points: 0 Chrisjtian Albers First GP: 2005 Points: 0
A small look at all 19 tracks included in the 2005 F1 season. 4.1 - Bahrain Circuit Length: 5. 417 km More F1 Grand Prix Tips: Lap Record: M. Schumacher (2004) 1.30.252 4.2 - Malaysia Circuit Length: 5.543 km Lap Record: JP Montoya (2004) 1.34.223 4.3 - Australia Circuit Length: 5.303 km Lap Record: M. Schumacher (2004) More F1 Grand Prix Tips: 1.24.125 4.4 - San Marino Circuit Length: 4.933 km Lap Record: M. Schumacher (2004) 1.20.411 4.5 - Europe Circuit Length: 5.148 km Lap Record: M. Schumacher (2004) 1.29.468 More F1 Grand Prix Tips: 4.6 - Spain Circuit Length: 4.627 km Lap Record: G. Fisichella (2005) 1.15.641 4.7 - Monaco Circuit Length: 3.340 km Lap Record: M. Schumacher (2004) 1.14.439 4.8 - Britain Circuit Length: 5.141 km Lap Record: M. Schumacher (2004) More F1 Grand Prix Tips: 1.18.739 4.9 - Canada Circuit Length: 4.361 km Lap Record: R. Barrichello (2004) 1.13.622 4.10 - USA Circuit Length: 4.192 km Lap Record: R. Barrichello (2004) 1.10.399 4.11 - France Circuit Length: 4.411 km More F1 Grand Prix Tips: Lap Record: M. Schumacher (2005) 1.15.377 4.12 - Germany Circuit Length: 4.574 km Lap Record: K. Raikkonen (2004) 1.13.780 4.13 - Hungary Circuit Length: 4.381 km Lap Record: M. Schumacher (2004) 1.19.071 More F1 Grand Prix Tips: 4.14 - Turkey Circuit Length: 5.340 km Lap Record: JP Montoya (2005) 1.24.770 4.15 - Italy Circuit Length: 5.793 km Lap Record: R. Barrichello (2004) 1.21.046 4.16 - Belgium Circuit Length: 6.976 km Lap Record: K. Raikkonen (2004) More F1 Grand Prix Tips: 1.45.108 4.17 - China Circuit Length: 5.451 km Lap Record: M. Schumacher (2004) 1.32.238 4.18 - Japan Circuit Length: 5.807 km Lap Record: K. Raikkonen (2005) More F1 Grand Prix Tips: 1.31.540 4.19 - Brazil Circuit Length: 4.309 km Lap Record: JP Montoya (2004) 1.11.473 5) GAME MODES 5.1 - Quick Grand Prix The game randomly chooses a track, team and driver for you. Press shufflesettings to change the track and team. You have no control over which driveryou are. Quick Grand Prix races are always 3 laps long. 5.2 - Time Attack More F1 Grand Prix Tips: Race against a ghost car to try and beat the best lap time for that track.Time Attack is the only mode that allows you to use your unlocked cars. Choose a team, driver and then track to get racing. You always start witha rolling start just before the last corner. 5.3 - Single Grand Prix (Locked at first) To unlock Single Grand Prix mode finish in the top three of the world championship on easy mode. Single Mode is similar to quick race mode butthis time it allows you to choose track, team and driver. There is also the option of difficulty seetings as well as shown in the table below. ( Difficulty - Easy - Normal - Hard ) More F1 Grand Prix Tips: Laps - 3 - 5 - 10 Weather - Fine - Variable - Variable Pit Stops - None - At least 1 - At least 2 Tyre Wear - No - Yes - Yes 6) SCENARIO MODE Scenario Mode gives you a series of scenarios where normally something is wrong with the car or you have to manitain your position while everyone else is faster than you and so on. It is a good new addition to the gamemodes and some of them are reasonably tricky. There is a small guide forscenario mode further down the guide. World Championship More F1 Grand Prix Tips: This is your normal bog standard FIA World Championship. At fist easy modeis the only difficulty available but as you complete each difficulty the nextone becomes available. The difficulty changes are the same as shown in the table above. Once on the world championship menu having chosen settings youget the options to qualify, practice, race and view points table. Please notethat if you don't qualify and just go straight into race then you will startfrom the back of the grid. Multiplayer The option for 2-8 player races. There is the option of time attack, race andGrand Prix. In time attack one player starts off before the other players join and are all aiming for the best time. There is no limit to the amount of lapsyou do. Head to head is your normal race mode and grand prix mode is of coursethe FIA World Championship. If less than eight players join then AI drivers will be addded. TV Race Mode More F1 Grand Prix Tips: This mode allows you to take a break from driving and watch an AI race. You canchange camera modes and so on. Kind of pointless this but a good feature neverthe less. Scenario Mode Guide 6.1 - Scenario 1: Lightning Start Location: Kuala Lumpar Team: Renault Objective: Start from last place... Reach 15th place before first split. You start off in 20th position on the grid. Wait until the lights go out and as they go out press X to get a quick start. This should hopefully take you up into about 16th place then just take it easy and look for places to overtake toget your self up to 15th. More F1 Grand Prix Tips: 6.2 - Scenario 2: Perfect Pitting Location: Albert Park Team: Minardi Objective: Rolling start...Pit and rejoin race within 36 seconds. You begin with a rolling start two corners before the pit lane. Take them niceand easy before driving down the pit lane marked with the big arrow. Slow yourcar down when the brake meter comes up. Just hold square down and you should beok. (More on pitting further down) When you pull into the space rapidly tap Xuntil the mechanics finish before the car auto drives out of the pits. Accelarate away to finish. More F1 Grand Prix Tips: 6.3 - Scenario 3: Emergency Stop Location: Kuala Lumpar Team: Jordan Objective: Faulty brakes!Rolling start... Reach the pits within 60 seconds. After the rolling start accelarate down the small straight before braking extremely hard and early, that is the key to this challenege. Don't worryabout the time limit and other cars overtaking just concentrate on brakingslowly and early for the corners and you should have bags of time. Slowlynavigate the last corner before pulling into the pit lane to complete thechallenege. 6.4 - Scenario 4: Restricted View More F1 Grand Prix Tips: Location: Monte Carlo Team: Minardi Objective: Sudden fog descends!Rolling start...Reach the finish .Maintain your position. Starting out on lap 9 of a 10 lap race sudden fog descends and makes driving conditions very difficult. Just drive like you normally would making sure tokeep your position. The easiest way to complete this is to know the Monte Carlocircuit well such as when corners are coming up and certain braking spots asduring the fog you will hardly be able to see. 6.5 - Scenario 5: Gearbox Trouble Loaction: Imola More F1 Grand Prix Tips: Team: Red Bull Racing Objective: Stuck in 5th gear!Rolling start... Manitain your position. Starting out before the last corner accelarate off. When you come to the corners don't brake as you will lose too much speed and due to the car beingstuck in 5th gear accelaration will be very slow. Make it round the chicanebefore accelarating off down the home straight before letting go of X to glide round the corners. When you come to the next two corners again let go ofX and take them easily. When you come to the tight hairpin do brake but onlyslightly and begin to accelarate before the end of the corner. On the next small corner let go of X until you clear the corner before pressing X again.Again let go of X for the next two corners before doing the same again for thechicane. After the chicane cruise round the very small corner before braking slightly for the sharp left hander. Let go of X for the second to last cornerbefore cruising round the chicane and over the finish line. More F1 Grand Prix Tips: 6.6 - Scenario 6: Tread Carefully Location: Spa-Francorchamps Team: Renault Objective: Damaged tyres!Rolling start...Reach the pits within 60 seconds The tyres on your car have lost their tread and you must get to the pits in 60seconds. The trick is to slow down plenty for the corners and when you are going round them keep tapping the directional buttons instead of holding themdown. If you do begin to lose control tap the opposite directional button toeven the car out. Don't worry about the time limit as you have plenty of time.Once you get to the pits indicated by the large red arrow just drive in tocomplete the scenario. More F1 Grand Prix Tips: 6.7 - Scenario 7: Speed Test Loaction: Catalunya Team: BMW-Williams Objective: Reach average speed of 135mph over 2 laps. As soon as the lights go out press X to get a boost start. This sceanrio is one of the easiest so far. Just barke for the corners and max out your speedsduring the straights and you should easily complete this one. 6.8 - Scenario 8: Flying Lap Loaction: Monte Carlo Team: McLaren Objective: Qualify in under 1:25 Penalties for collisions. Again another easy one. Similar to qualifying just make it round the Monte Carlo track in under 1:25. Try not to crash into walls often as this adds asecond on each time but even if you do crash the odd time it shouldn't matter. 6.9 - Scenario 9: Downpour Location: Hockenheim Team: Ferrari Objective: Sudden downpour! Rolling start in first place...Win the race ... on slicks against drivers on wet tyres. A hard one this is. You start near the end of the 8th lap of 10. You tyres haveno grip at all while all the other drivers have wet tyres with lots of grip.Don't take the corners too fast or you will spin out. You just have to try andmatch the other drivers pace and hold on for the win. 6.10 - Scenario 10: Flat Out Location: Silverstone Objective: Sudden downpour!Rolling start in last place...Reach 1st place ...on wet tyres against drivers on slicks This last scenario is similar to #9. But this time things are taken to a wholenew level now. You start in last place and must win the race with no grip. Start off by overtaking the slower cars at the back. Keep pressing forwardand then when your chance comes overtake the leader and hold on to win the race. Well done! You have completed all 10 scenarios! 7) PIT STOPS In F1 Grand Prix pit stops are interactive. Drive into a pit lane before braking before the line on the brake meter on the left of the screen. If youdon't stop in time then it is a three second speeding penalty. The car willauto drive down the pit lane before pulling into the space in your garage.You now have the chance to change your strategy. See below for more details. Keep tapping X to make your mechanics work faster. Once they've finished you will serve your three second penalty if you got one or the car will drive outand you will have completed your pit stop! Pit Stop Stratergies : -> Square-Aggressive Higher top speed, poorer acceleration and roadholding. -> Triangle-Balanced Good balance of speed, acceleration and roadholding. -> Circle-Defensive Lower top speed, better acceleration and roadholding. -> Damage Damage to the car isn't visible or parts don't fall off the cars but the damagedoes acumulate and eventually reduces the cars top speed and acceleration. Torepair damage either make a pit stop or press start and press reset to track.More on reset to track below. If you have a high speed crash or collision thenyour car will reset back to the track after a three second countdown. 8) OTHER TIPS -> Reset Car To Track When you press reset to track the game will repair your car and place it in themiddle of the track. The best place to use it is round a sharp corner if you gooff as if you reset on a straight you will lose lots of places but if you use it on a slow corner you may not even lose a single place! -> Boost Start When lining up on the grid wait until the lights go out and then hit X to get aboost start. You can use this to best affect either at the back of the grid togain some early places or when at the front to stay clear of first corner mayhem.
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There are the normal types of race options which will be explained a little further below.
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