Shortly after the release of Grand Prix Legends the sim racing community looked forward to another title that promised to offer a similar insight into historic racing. Trans-Am Racing ’68-’72 ultimately never released, a victim of a publishers shady dealings, but as a part of my research I uncovered a VHS of a never-released trailer for the game. Watch the trailer and read about what sim racing missed out on.
RSC contains a database of 153 developers, 468 software titles, 374 cars, 42 bikes, 242 tracks and more...Legendary British game developer whose career spanned a 20 year period and included groundbreaking simulations of Formula Three and Formula One, including arguably the first ever racing sim: Revs (1984).
Most famous for his Grand Prix series that were published under the MicroProse label until 2000, his career unceremoniously ended when his studio was shut down by Infogrames and the Xbox version of Grand Prix 4 cancelled just prior to release.
RSC Podcast Episode 7 – Management Simulations, F1 Managers, Always Used To Be Better?Join Jon Denton, Tim Wheatley, Simon Croft and guest(s) as they discuss sim racing and racing games past, present and future.
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iRacing have scanned 1987 Ford Thunderbird and Chevrolet Monte-Carlo stock cars for their racing simulation, matching up perfectly with the soon-to-be-released North Wilkesboro. This will actually be the first time a NASCAR Generation 3 (1981 to 1991) model will be seen in a racing simulation. The NASCAR Legends (1999) title featured Gen-2 cars from 1970 and NASCAR Racing (1994) featured Gen-5. Every simulation title after that used a later generation of race car.
The short track Chevrolet Monte-Carlo they scanned was built in February, 1987 and ran 15 races between 1987 and 1989. It finished all races in the top ten with six wins, three second places and two third places. Two of those wins came at North Wilkesboro, including the first ever race on radial tires in 1989. It’s held at the NASCAR Hall Of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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I know less about the Ford Thunderbird that they scanned… Only that it is one from Bill Elliott’s private collection in Dawsonville.
iR is a subscription-based online service that allows sim racers to race a variation of cars and tracks from all around the world.
