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.
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.
Join Jon Denton, Tim Wheatley, Simon Croft and guest(s) as they discuss sim racing and racing games past, present and future.
Kunos have released another update for 1.3 that fixes a number of minor issues:
Changelog v1.3.11
Fixed a potential crash when using trackIR with helmet camera.
Added ignition/engine running indicator to speedo/rpm widget.
MFD will now only store its state when HUD is removed from screen (potential fix for stutter when cycling MFD pages after HDD power down)
Fixed currently viewed car label indicating wrong car brand in replay under specific conditions.
Fixed nationality information not transferring correctly for MP opponents in the broadcast HUD.
Broadcast HUD TAB leaderboard now scrolls on mouse input.
Fixed MP car showroom not displaying cars when official filter was selected under specific conditions.
Tyre tearing model fine tuning.
Audi R8 EVO preset setups strategies fixes.
Huracan EVO fine tuning.
Huracan ST Paul Ricard aggressive setup.
Huracan ST preheated tyres fix.
Wet tyres rear radius correction.
Minor rearrangement of the lights and ignition indicators.
Fixed the flash light HUD indicator getting stuck in the Mercedes.
ACC is a Blancpain GT, British GT and other SRO series simulator featuring GT3 and GT4 sports cars.