Believe it or not, there’s another new sim racing game currently in development. And the studio behind its development - Straight4 Studios - is headed by Ian Bell who helped create some of sim racing’s most mythical games—starting with GTR and the Project CARS franchise and with the seminal GT Legends thrown in for good measure.
The (imo) awkwardly named Project Motor Racing will run on the engine that drives the many, many, many tractors and combine harvesters of the Farming Simulator franchise.
Straight4 Studios have partnered with GIANTS Software (the folk behind the Farming Simulator franchise) who will be providing both the engine and the publishing team for Project Motor Racing. While the two have been working on finalising their partnership since early 2023, an official announcement and the first in-engine screenshots were only made last month.
GIANTS Software and Straight4 Studios have been collaborating on integrating the GIANTS engine into Project Motor Racing since 2023. Both studios are already deep into the development phase of tuning the engine for sim racing-specific duty.
The GIANTS Engine was developed from the ground up and saw the light of day in 2008 in the first Farming Simulator. Since then, it has been continuously developed and used in all common platforms, so that today it easily meets the latest technical requirements for PC and console gaming.
Project Motor Racing is currently being developed for PC and consoles, and is slated to be released “in 2025”.
