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.
As a direct ancestor of iRacing, the ‘Grand Prix Legends engine’ had multiple stock car racing false starts, before eventually releasing as NASCAR Racing 4. The original NASCAR 3, cancelled and replaced by one that used NASCAR 2’s engine, is barely remembered.
Studio 397 today published their October, 2021 roadmap detailing exactly what the studio has been working on behind the scenes. Check out the full roadmap for more information as I don’t tend to cover things unrelated to the public software.
The main thing featured in the roadmap is that driver labels are coming back. I think these were in the ISI engine all the way from Sportscar GT? Previously they would just be the name with an ugly white spike heading down to the car. Now? They look like this:
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