If you ever played Papyrus’ seminal Grand Prix Legends then you’ve read his name. Rich began working as a tester on NASCAR Racing (1994) and was with Papyrus at the end. In this interview, published in 2022, we discuss his time at the legendary studio and the design of Grand Prix Legends, including initial feelings of hurt at not being asked to join iRacing.
Asobo, known today as the Microsoft Flight Simulator developer, created groundbreaking technology for large scale maps that was intended to be used in a high quality rally raid title. It was never released and ended up as FUEL, a post-apocalyptic open-world racing game. What happened?
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.