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.
As a direct ancestor of iRacing, the ‘Grand Prix Legends engine’ had multiple stock car racing false starts, before eventually releasing as NASCAR Racing 4. The original NASCAR 3, cancelled and replaced by one that used NASCAR 2’s engine, is barely remembered.
Milestone released a first gameplay trailer today, presenting the ‘Long Lap Penalty’ feature which has been added to the software. In the video you can see the player jump the start and be assessed a penalty, continuing the lap, before serving the penalty in the additional chicane in the final corner to start the next one.
I expect that this will be a series of videos, one for each feature they want to promote. I’m personally most interested to see the bike recovery (fallen riders are supposed to retrieve their bike rather than just ghost back onto the race track).
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