Ahead of PCars 3 release, Ermin Hamidovic has a good go at the developer that was given birth by community assisted funding for their original ambitious “Project Community Assisted Racing Simulation” which promised to be everything hardcore simmers would want – and of course, funded by them.

Roll on almost a decade and the game is now part of the Codemasters portfolio and is ditching the original hardcore-simming ethos to deliver a more simcade version of the racing game whose previous renditions did not quite hit the soft spot with the virtual racing community.