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.
Better known today as the developer of Skyrim and Fallout, Bethesda once had a well-respected racing game franchise and were deep into development of a licensed Skip Barber Racing title that never released.
Today the Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages of SIMBIN UK went offline. This comes about five months after they closed their Discord that they had opened to communicate with us (something that never happened).
I’m not sure where this leaves the development of GTR 3, but it’s safe to say that the removal of these pages perfectly fits the extremely weird story of SIMBIN UK and GTR 3.
The frustrating bit of this for me personally is that I know the software existed in some form. They even got far enough along to create a teaser trailer at one point (that was never made public), so it’s just a bit crappy to see what could have been the ‘Assetto Corsa Competizione’ of it’s era go away without ever breaching the surface of the water.
If they ever do resurface, again, I think it’s going to take a lot of work for people to accept any item of news at all. I’m just tired. Aren’t you?
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