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.
iRacing deployed the car to the service during “maintenance” this morning. While this is a surprise, I was actually expecting we might see a 2020 F1 car instead. The fact that iRacing chose to put a 2020 livery on an older McLaren when previewing Hockenheim still irks me a little bit…
570S screenshots:
iR is a subscription-based online service that allows sim racers to race a variation of cars and tracks from all around the world.