Grand Prix Two (nicknamed per community "gp2") occurs as racing simulator released by MicroProse in 1996, with a FIA license that featured the Formula 1 1994 season, with all the circuits & cars. It was one of a 1st video game by owning 3d texture mapping & SVGA graphics, also as an early however naturalistic natural philosophy engine. An Internet modding community developed since 1998 until today.

Game characteristics
Because of its radical true-to-reality style, coder began to crack a code. René Smit & Frank Ahnert created Gp2lap, that review a track files from either a strong-disk instead of the Video, and so track redaction would become conceivable. Paul Hoad programmed a Gp2 TrackEditor, a CarEditor & a JAM Editor (texture importer/exporter) sustaining a facilitate of numerous beta testers, rather Peter L. Kessler, Addie Walti, SNQQPY.Puppy, Marc Aarts & Nic " Swervin' Irvin' " Prins. When soon when tracks & cars became editable, a gp2 modding community began to develop. Fresh track commands allowed better-well-favoured, further challenging circuits & by owning less bugs. Several racing leagues were created sustaining custom cars & helmets (a car liveries few is known as "carset") & modified engine power.

Growth of the gp2 community
When Juha Viitala, Daniel Ketteringham, Pieter van Dieren & PK Arnall created every season a latest Formula One carset, it besides mass produced old seasons, from either a golden era (50s & 60s) to a wing era (70s), a turbo ages (80s) & the technical era (90s). CART, F3000 were likewise featured, however were less popular than F1 & made-up carsets. Adalberto Zapparoli, Andreas Bosch, Dereck Hicks, David Richards, Warren Jenks, Gabriele Moschetto focused inside tracks, specially people of the F1 year, however likewise more FIA circuits in Europe & United states, & besides form Australia & more countries visited by CART, MotoGP & popular motorsport categories (Rio de Janeiro, Kyalami, Motegi...) But then, populatiin such as Adie Walti, Martijn Keizer, John Edwards, Matti Laitinen, Jason Sinnbeck, Thomas Stephanskirchner & Phil Paterson focused on creating invented tracks. Flexibility within track project produced interesting final result: camping challenges, overtaking paradises or even irrational madness.

Additionally, Internet-depending competitions like LFRS, & Jon Edgar's GP2 Championship evolved, whereby competitors drove their single races in GP2 so submitting the children to the internet site which compiled overall effects from either their race days, providing the form of mortal competition to the game.

Decay and nowadays
When a release of Grand Prix 3 most of the drivers and editors changed from either game. Late 2000 a Grand Prix 2000 patch get on low; inmediately gp2 modding activity decreased. Grand Prix 4 (2002) almost flushed a gp2 community, when 2002 & 2003 updating rates indicate. However within 2004 & 2005 occasionally humans saved (& keep) making carsets & tracks: a EVDJSR team (David Stunnenberg & Erick Von Draxeler) & a NPSW team (Sylvester Wever & Nick Pathuis) manufactured & produce carsets; Andreas Schulz, Antonio Pessoa, Otario Silveira, Roberto Remedio, Alex Cherkashin & Carlos Pereira built tracks, & occasionally old humans helped newly track designers, prefer CAP, Dereck Hicks & David Richards.