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.
Charlotte Motor Speedway, formerly Lowe’s Motor Speedway, is a motorsports complex built in 1959 by Bruton Smith located in Concord, North Carolina, United States.
First seen in sim racing with NASCAR Racing (1994).
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Codemasters published the first screenshots from their upcoming F1 release yesterday on social media. They also allowed a bunch of content creators to create marketing material where they were all told what specific feature they were to cover. While I’d be doing the same thing if I was in-charge of marketing for the product, I don’t really like it as a consumer because it doesn’t give the creator the free will to say what they want, and look at what they want to.
Here are the screenshots:
Here is a link to the thread of ‘media’ Codemasters are using to market their product. There’s some genuinely new footage available, and while the video at the top of this article looks pretty, the harsh steering movements make me want to vomit. It reminds me of when someone thought it would be a good idea to use this video to showcase NASCAR Heat 4 and instead just reinforced everything that was bad about it.
The following screenshots were released a day later:
Announced October, 2019 with the extension of the F1 license until 2025. Developed and published by Codemasters, it will be the fourteenth title in the Formula One series developed by the studio.