Grand Prix Rejects

http://www.pacificgrandprix.com/



This last remnant of a reject haven has been taken off teh internets. A sad day for motorsport.

Just thought you guys should know.

There's still hope...instead of a 404 error (page/server not found) I "only" got a connection timed out error (408 error).

Nuppiz wrote:There's still hope...instead of a 404 error (page/server not found) I "only" got a connection timed out error (408 error).

Same here. Let's hope the guys down at Pacific GP can get their website back up and running

A great shame, even if it is only temporalily unavailable.

Damn. I guess that means I have to change my link now.

dooo- dooo
do do dee doo dooo...
doo doo

'Tis truly a sad day for rejects everywhere.

Perhaps Jamie and Enoch could include a moment of silence in the next podcast in rememberance of the Pacific site.

Maybe they have gotten too much traffic from us hanging around on this forum

As a certain poet wrote, "Nothing golden can remain", or something like this (I'm not English).

RIP www.pacificgrandprix.com 1994-2009

"Nooooooooooooooo!" - Sébastien Buemi
I should've mirrored it...
I will never forgive myself!

One of you guys said youve backed up the website, since it takes up little space.

crazydude1992 wrote:One of you guys said youve backed up the website, since it takes up little space.

I remember myself saying I could do that if someone wanted me to, but I haven't actually done it...
Mea culpa!! Mea culpa!!

Waris wrote:

crazydude1992 wrote:One of you guys said youve backed up the website, since it takes up little space.

I remember myself saying I could do that if someone wanted me to, but I haven't actually done it...
Mea culpa!! Mea culpa!!

May HWNSNBM have mercy on your soul, then...

Thankfully, the Wayback Machine backed up the site for us... ...sort of.

This is the Pacific GP site as it was in 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/200309212138 ... dprix.com/

And here it is in 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/200502021614 ... dprix.com/

You may prefer the first of these versions. It would also help if any of you knew the passwords to get into the site.

Alianora La Canta wrote:Thankfully, the Wayback Machine backed up the site for us... ...sort of.

This is the Pacific GP site as it was in 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/200309212138 ... dprix.com/

And here it is in 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/200502021614 ... dprix.com/

You may prefer the first of these versions. It would also help if any of you knew the passwords to get into the site.

That's not how I remember it... I remember it as a joyful place with up to date profiles of Giovanni Lavaggi and press releases about Jean Denis Deletraz and his aspirations for future F1 success.

The above just saddens me immensely.

Shame it requires a password.

Phoenix wrote:Shame it requires a password.

Someone just needs to reset their server.

As we are talking all things Pacific Grand Prix in here, let me divert your focus onto the Tanaka International Circuit at Aida / Okayama - once the home of the Pacific Grand Prix, which took place twice - with having its namesake team on the entry list both times.

How do you rate the Aida / Okayama track?
At the time of these races, it was rated by the experts of the motorsport press as "another Hungaroring", as a bit of a Mickey Mouse track. But I quite liked the races that took place there.
What do you think of the circuit?

Yannick wrote:As we are talking all things Pacific Grand Prix in here, let me divert your focus onto the Tanaka International Circuit at Aida / Okayama - once the home of the Pacific Grand Prix, which took place twice - with having its namesake team on the entry list both times.

How do you rate the Aida / Okayama track?
At the time of these races, it was rated by the experts of the motorsport press as "another Hungaroring", as a bit of a Mickey Mouse track. But I quite liked the races that took place there.
What do you think of the circuit?

I enjoyed driving at Aida on 94/95 GP4 mods, but I don't think it would have been very good from a spectating point of view, and would be hellishly boring with modern F1 cars

I can't really remember the race track but I've heard that it was far to tight and narrow for F1 cars, so overtaking was nigh on impossible.

watka wrote:I can't really remember the race track but I've heard that it was far to tight and narrow for F1 cars, so overtaking was nigh on impossible.

I have TI Aida on a racing game, but I can't remember which game it was. But if the game is anything to go by, its like Monaco without the buildings.

kostas22 wrote:I have TI Aida on a racing game, but I can't remember which game it was. But if the game is anything to go by, its like Monaco without the buildings.

It was certainly on Formula 1 on the old glorious PlayStation and may have been on Race Pro for whichever system that WTCC game was on. The circuit is now known as Okayama International Circuit and hosted the Yokohama Race of Japan in the WTCC and the Okayama 6 Hours in the Asian Le Mans Series this weekend.

Its a fairly narrow and twisty circuit which isn't particularily long either at 3.703 kilometres. It was built in 1991, if I remember correctly, for wealthy club members to blast around in their sports cars.

RejectSteve wrote:

kostas22 wrote:I have TI Aida on a racing game, but I can't remember which game it was. But if the game is anything to go by, its like Monaco without the buildings.

It was certainly on Formula 1 on the old glorious PlayStation and may have been on Race Pro for whichever system that WTCC game was on. The circuit is now known as Okayama International Circuit and hosted the Yokohama Race of Japan in the WTCC and the Okayama 6 Hours in the Asian Le Mans Series this weekend.

Its a fairly narrow and twisty circuit which isn't particularily long either at 3.703 kilometres. It was built in 1991, if I remember correctly, for wealthy club members to blast around in their sports cars.

I just realised this morning it was the same track (Okayama and Aida) and yes, its not really F1 material. The 2008 WTCC race was the first FIA sanctioned race there since F1!

I raced on the track in TOCA World Touring Cars, which was made about a decade ago. The track then was pretty decent, actually, but it wouldn't be very good for F1.

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:I raced on the track in TOCA World Touring Cars, which was made about a decade ago. The track then was pretty decent, actually, but it wouldn't be very good for F1.

I think that may have been the game I was thinking of...

I have actually driven the three laps around the Okayama circuit (former AIDA) in a normal passenger car. The circuit itself is decent (but not F1 material) but the access to he circuit is terrible - high up in the japanese mountains with roads a modern f1-trolley hardly could drive on... I common feature on most japanese circuits. (applies to Motegi, Fuji and Autopolis as well).

The Aida circuit was on Grand Prix 2 as well of course. I havn't played that for donkeys years though, I must have been about 11 the last time I did. From what I remember, it was pretty enjoyable.

In Grand Prix 2 I reckon computer cars crashing more at Aida than in any other circuit.

It's still accesable by this link: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www ... ndprix.com

f1-gast wrote:It's still accesable by this link: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www ... ndprix.com

Tell me if I'm wrong but this doesn't look anything like the website that we lost. The original http://www.pacificgrandprix.com had an interview with Jean Denis Deletraz about how he was looking forward to the next GP and learning his way around the Pacific GP car. It looked like it hadn't been touched since 1995.

f1-gast wrote:It's still accesable by this link: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www ... ndprix.com

The first time I tried to open it it crashed my computer. Plus, it's not the web we were looking for, sadly

f1-gast wrote:It's still accesable by this link: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www ... ndprix.com

I found that link once, and was full of excitement. Then I opened it. It made me sad.