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.
RSC contains a database of 153 developers, 468 software titles, 374 cars, 42 bikes, 242 tracks and more...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.
RSC Podcast Episode 7 – Management Simulations, F1 Managers, Always Used To Be Better?Join Jon Denton, Tim Wheatley, Simon Croft and guest(s) as they discuss sim racing and racing games past, present and future.
RSC contains a database of news items. Our #OnThisDay page shows current day and current week of years past...
RSC contains a database of videos back to the 1980s catalogued as intros, laps, trailers, unboxings and more...
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Sector3 have released a small update to their service improving both the tire model and AI for some content.
Update details:
Download size = 250 MB
Client version = 0.9.1.8
Client BuildID = 5621004
Dedi version = 68.0.1201
Dedi BuildID = 5620952
Changelist:
Formula RaceRoom Junior – Updated physics to latest tyre model v4.1 – Leaderboards were cleared.
Hillclimb Icons cars – Updated physics to latest tyre model v4.1 – Leaderboards were cleared.
Porsche Cayman 981 GT4 Clubsport – Updated physics to latest tyre model v4.1 – Leaderboards were cleared.
Motorland Aragon – Improved AI behaviour on the MotoGP layout
Sachsenring – Revision of some cut detections, making it more strict – Leaderboards were cleared.
Suzuka – Revision to some cut detections, making it more lenient in some areas.
Esports WTCR car class has now received livery updates to match the Zolder and Nurburgring real rounds. Note: This class is only accessible through competitions. It is the one that was used in the pre-season series with the real drivers back in June 2020. You can watch it on YouTube
RRE/R3E is a free-to-play racing simulator that allows sim racers to race a variation of cars and tracks from all around the world.
