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.
iRacing recently posted a first teaser for their “very soon” Mt. Washington Hillclimb release and today followed that up with another short one looking more at the higher sections of the course.
It needs saying, I am really pleased they’re trying something different and introducing a point-to-point hillclimb course. While we’ve mostly-all heard of Pikes Peak, the simple fact is that currently that seems to be under an exclusivity deal with Sony who are just sitting on the license. They already prevented DiRT Rally 2.0 from getting it (DiRT Rally 1 had it), and honestly iRacing have done the next best thing with Mt. Washington…
You can view today’s teaser on Twitter, but it’s probably better quality (higher bitrate) on Facebook (It seems the FB embedding is broken. Use this link to view it on FB. Hopefully this issue will resolve itself):
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