Video game development is full of names that have made groundbreaking steps you’ve never even heard about. Shawn Nash is a behind-the-scenes pioneer responsible for SODA Off Road Racing’s incredible physics, Papyrus’ graphical advancements and iRacing’s use of laser scan data for the physical track surfaces.
This interview with RSC, published in 2021, details his early life and career, through both his own company, Papyrus, Electronic Arts, to his time at iRacing.
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.
Header image of Bahrain from Codemasters F1 franchise.
Announced today via the release of the Le Mans Virtual schedule, Bahrain International Circuit (also known as Sakhir) will be coming to rFactor 2 in time for the scheduled race date of September 17, 2022, but was announced for in the post public release with the 2022 Q4 update due in November. The track is being built from laser scan data.
I don’t currently cover esports, events, etc, so that’s all I’ve got. Check out their news item linked above if you want to read about Le Mans Virtual.
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