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.
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.
The Ferrari F1-90 (641) was an evolution of the previous years 640 with a lot of development on the engine and cooling to improve reliability over the 1989 campaign.
Alain Prost joined the team from McLaren and went head-to-head with his former team-mate Ayrton Senna once again, taking three poles and seven wins with this car. The battle ended in a contentious crash in Suzuka where Senna blatantly took out Prost in the first turn to win the title after complaints he’d been forced to start from pole on the dirtier side of the race track.
Released as historic content for F1 2019.
Added as historic content to F1 2020.