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.
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?
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In 2015 McLaren returned to Honda power with the RA615H but ultimately struggled for pace. While many, including the team and drivers, blamed the new engine for their woes, the chassis hadn’t been performing for a number of years and continued to struggle after the relationship with Honda broke down.
It was a poor year for McLaren, with just six points finishes.
Although the McLaren MP4-30 was released with F1 2015 (Codemasters, 2015), we have decided not to classify that as a simulation by our own terms. With that in-mind, the first simulation to carry this car was iRacing in 2015:
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