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.
Video game development is rarely about one man, but if it was, then Terence Groening should certainly get a mention for his contributions to the genre as the man responsible for the physics of Sportscar GT, EA’s PC F1 and NASCAR games of the early 2000’s, rFactor, rFactor 2 and every title and rFpro simulator that spawned from ISI’s engine.
This interview with RSC details his early life and career, through to him joining iRacing in 2021.
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The class of the field during the 1989 season, the Penske PC-18 won Indy and the championship with Emerson Fittipaldi for Patrick Racing (operated by Chip Ganassi), ahead of Rick Mears in the yellow Pennzoil car of Penske.
The PC18 was powered that year by a Chevrolet 265A V8t by both teams. The car was much less competitive in 1990, but still took a handful of points finishes, and a first podium finish for Chip Ganassi Racing.
First seen in sim racing with Indy 500 (1989). The manual for that title states that their Penske chassis is a Penske-Chevrolet, but instead of replacing existing teams on behalf of the player the software creates a fictional Penske team that replaces the March-Cosworth of Rich Vogler, who started 33rd and finished 8th in 1989.
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