Project Motor Racing: ‘We Let You Down, and We Let Ourselves Down’

The squad down Project Motor Racing has acknowledged the crippled did not conscionable expectations upon its archetypal merchandise successful November. The admittance comes via a caller newsletter update from developer Straight4 Studios, which besides announced a large update is acceptable to get astatine the extremity of March.

“When we launched Project Motor Racing successful November, we acceptable retired to physique a racing sim that captured the intensity, immersion, and subject of existent motorsport,” the workplace wrote.

“So let’s commencement with the elemental truth: we didn’t deed the mark. Not connected the worldly that mattered most. We fto you down, and we fto ourselves down.”

Conceding “more than 1 thing” went wrong, the workplace explained it has been focusing connected moving “tirelessly to close the ship.”

“Patch by patch, we’ve listened intimately to your feedback – the good, the bad, and the blunt – and we’ve acted connected it,” the workplace continued. “We’re present 7 patches into making PMR the acquisition you want. Are we determination yet? No. Not yet. But we’re moving person to the modular you merit and the modular we expect of ourselves.”

“At the extremity of March, we’ll beryllium delivering a truly important update aimed astatine resetting PMR’s instauration and bringing the sim overmuch person to what a superior motorsport rubric should consciousness like. We’ll stock a batch much item astir what this looks similar passim March.”

The astir caller update for Project Motor Racing arrived conscionable days ago, introducing the 2013 Ford FG Falcon V8 Supercar arsenic a escaped conveyance for each players, positive a “total overhaul to the GT4 class.”

IGN’s November 2025 reappraisal of Project Motor Racing noted the sim’s large enactment of cars and praised its self-contained nature, which overtly shunned a subscription exemplary oregon “free-to-play chicanery,” but noted that, unfortunately, “Project Motor Racing feels similar an aboriginal entree crippled that hasn’t really been identified arsenic such” and made for a “mediocre single-player racing experience” astatine that time.

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