On this episode of the Traxion.GG Podcast, Thomas Harrison-Lord speaks to The King of Supercross, Jeremy McGrath. The seven-time Supercross champion, and one-time Motorcross champion, is these days an ambassador for the sport, and here he discusses his early days, a career in Supercross and why he decided to get involved with Monster Energy Supercross 6 - The Official Video Game. Working with developers Milestone, McGrath discusses here why games of official motorsport series can help the champi...
Apr 20, 2023•18 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Ever wondered what a racing driver really gets from sim racing? So often all we hear about is being able to learn the tracks, but those in the know realise it can be much more than that. Which is why we spoke to Cooper Webster at Donington Park recently, as the young Aussie motorsport competition prepares for his season ahead. A real-world competitor, he’s also an avid, competition, sim racer. He will be participating for Evans GP in the GB4 championship this year plus the Australian S5000 champ...
Apr 07, 2023•14 min•Season 6Ep. 5
On this episode, we are joined by Andrew Jeffreys, aka Repixel8, and Jon Wetherall from CGA Studio to talk Formula Retro Racing: World Tour . So often, we take the racing game and sim racing scene a bit too seriously. Formula Retro Racing: World Tour is a vivid, approachable, retro driving title that harks back to the arcade cabinet. It’s just simple fun, but with contemporary features, such as virtual reality and online leaderboards. With Andrew the solo developer of the 2020 original, he and C...
Apr 03, 2023•21 min
In this episode of the Traxion.GG Podcast, we’re going behind the scenes of the upcoming motorcycle simulator, TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 3. To bring you up to speed, this is the official game of the yearly real-world road racing event which is world-renowned for the skill and bravery of the riders and also the 37.73 mile or 60.72km course. This third game is developed by RaceWard Studio, part of NACON Studio Milan, who previously created RiMS Racing – a road motorcycle simulator released ...
Mar 30, 2023•44 min•Season 6Ep. 3
We’re back, with a brand new season, and we have a lot coming up for you so thank you for listening! Join Thomas Harrison-Lord, Editor in Chief of the Traxion.GG website as he speaks to Mark Pierce, Executive Producer and Emmanuel Valdez, Art Director, from developer Visual Concepts South. In this episode, we discuss their brand new driving game, targeted at families: Lego 2K Drive. It’s open world, coming soon to both PC and console, features cross-platform online multiplayer, can be played onl...
Mar 23, 2023•21 min•Season 6Ep. 2
A special early episode of the Traxion.GG Podcast before we start our new-for-2023 season, we visited the Alpine F1 Team's home in the Cotswolds to see its ambitious sim racing esports plans for the season ahead. It announced the return of the Alpine Esports series, which anyone can enter via Assetto Corsa Competizione, its new-look F1 Esports Series Pro line-up and a host of new partners that are linking the real and virtual worlds. In this episode, Piers Prior interviewed members of Alpine and...
Feb 28, 2023•29 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Joining Thomas Harrison-Lord today on this episode is Xavier Pieuchot, Product Marketing Manager at Thrustmaster. It’s been a big month for the gaming and simulation equipment manufacturer, as its first-ever direct drive wheel base – the T818 – was launched and shipped to its first customers. Here at Traxion.GG, we were lucky enough to receive one of the first loan units for review . But, we wanted to get deeper under the skin of the T818 and see why the American-French company chose now as the ...
Jan 04, 2023•38 min•Season 5Ep. 18
On this episode, it’s the festive period, so we hope you are enjoying at least a day off to put your feet up. With this in mind, today’s conversation is a little less formal and a bit more relaxed. Joining Thomas Harrison-Lord to discuss the future of rally games is Autosport and Motorsport.com’s WRC Editor Tom Howard. We regale our experiences with the most recent World Rally Championship game, Generations, then look ahead to what we’d like to see in 2023 when EA Sports’ first official WRC game...
Dec 26, 2022•40 min•Season 5Ep. 17
We, at Traxion.GG, happen to think Need for Speed Unbound is the best entry in the street-racing series for a generation. So, we decided that it would be a great idea to speak to someone who helped create it. Joining Thomas Harrison-Lord this week is Kieran Crimmins, Criterion Games’, and therefore Unbound's, Creative Director. We discuss why the game isn't on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, where the inspiration for the unique art style came from and how development progressed through Battlefield-re...
Dec 13, 2022•19 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Join Fanatec CEO Thomas Jackermeier from the SimRacing Expo 2022 to run through the peripheral and equipment manufacturers' past 25 years, its biggest achievements and what's next. He shares some fascinating insights into the supply-chain challenges of the past two years, the launch of more affordable direct drive wheel bases and why it's creating a karting track on the new HQ's roof! Ever wonder what motivates Fanatec to innovate? Listen to this episode to find out as Jackermeier joins Thomas H...
Dec 04, 2022•13 min•Season 5Ep. 15
On this episode of the Traxion.GG Podcast, we’re at the World Finals of the Gran Turismo World Series from Monaco. This is the title-deciding esports event for the world’s quickest Gran Turismo drivers. The weekend incorporated the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing GT Cup Grand Final, the Manufacturers Cup final and the Nations Cup final – the one that effectively determines the overall world champion driver. It also included the launch of a brand new Ferrari Vision Gran Turismo car, an opportunity to speak t...
Nov 29, 2022•40 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Williams Esports carries the distinction of being Wiliams Racing’s only form of motorsport outside of Formula 1. The team competes in the pinnacle of single-seaters and racing esports. That’s it. It shows just how intrinsically important virtual racing is to the Grove company, originally founded by Frank Williams in 1977. Now under Dorilton Capital stewardship, its esports squad is pushing the limits of what’s achievable in sim racing – both in terms of the sheer quantity of events participated,...
Nov 22, 2022•51 min•Season 5Ep. 13
There's no other driving game quite like Intertial Drift. The vision of Michael O'Kane, and developed alongside Tom Mathews, aka Level 91 Entertainment, the two-person team launched the twin-stick drift title in 2020 for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Following some free car additions in the latter stages of 2021, the game is back with a new Twilight Rivals downloadable content pack, and a Twilight Rivals Edition that includes the DLC plus 4K resolution and up to 120fps for Pla...
Nov 14, 2022•36 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Joining us for this episode of the Traxion.GG Podcast is Lindsey Eckhouse, Director of Licensing, Ecommerce and Esports at McLaren Racing. Responsible for both the real-world racing team's appearance within video games and its virtual competition outlets, in this instance the McLaren Shadow team and the Logitech G Challenge competition. Lindsey explains how the company picks and chooses the right virtual implementations that engage and also represent McLaren's values. So that means F1 Esports, o...
Nov 08, 2022•26 min•Season 5Ep. 11
Hello and welcome to yet another Traxion.GG Podcast episode featuring Jimmy Broadbent. This is a bonus companion episode to go alongside the in-depth piece covering content creation and Formula 1. This was recorded just after the final race of the Praga Cup championship in October 2022, which Broadbent and team-mate Gordie Mutch won, taking home the inaugural title. Running the works Praga entry supported by Fanatec, the duo won both races in the East Midlands to seal the crown in style. First o...
Nov 01, 2022•17 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Pls no punterino and welcome to an episode of the Traxion.GG Podcast. Joining Thomas Harrison-Lord today is Jimmy Broadbent, over 800,000 sim racing and motorsport YouTube subscribers and counting. The pre-eminent virtual racing content creator is here to discuss his Praga exploits this season, but also his live sidecast on AMP during Formula 1 weekends, Fast & Loose, the current state of F1 games and the struggle to create popular, relevant video content. This was recorded before the Praga ...
Nov 01, 2022•37 min•Season 5Ep. 9
When WRC Generations – the official game of the World Rally Championship - launches in November, it will mark the end of Parisien developer Kylotonn’s involvement in the franchise. We visited its studio in France recently to discuss the development of its upcoming, final, WRC game and hear from the development team about its creation and how the studio has evolved over the past eight years. We will be joined by three members of KT Racing as they near the title’s release, starting with Creative D...
Oct 20, 2022•26 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Joining us this week is Paul Crawford, Esports Manager at Motorsport UK. For those who aren’t aware, Motorsport UK is the governing body for all four-wheeled motorsport in the United Kingdom. It’s now committed to sim racing and racing esports, so here you will hear Thomas Harrison-Lord and colleague Ross McGregor speak to Paul about an upcoming Motorspork UK organised sim racing esports competition, but also the organisation’s goals for the virtual world and its exciting future plans for a comm...
Oct 17, 2022•36 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Joining us this week is the founder and CEO of Trak Racer, Matt Sten, the global – of Australian origin – sim racing and flight simulator accessory manufacturer. It has partnerships with the Alpine Formula 1 team and Airbus, and perhaps is best known for creating cockpits and wheel stands for those who want to take their virtual racing that bit further. We’ve reviewed its TR8 Pro Cockpit and FS3 wheel stand on the Traxion.GG website and YouTube Channel before. I wanted to gain an insight into th...
Oct 10, 2022•27 min•Season 5Ep. 6
The Automobile Club de l'Ouest’s 24 Hours Hours of Le Mans will celebrate 100 years since its first running in 2023, but before then it will also honour its third ever 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual race too. On the run-up to the big racing esports event – which will see over 40 cars, across two categories, driven by 140 competitors – there is also the Le Mans Virtual Series, organised and run by Motorsport Games and the ACO. Yes, the same Motorsport Games group that Traxion.GG is part of, albeit e...
Oct 03, 2022•36 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Paulo Gomes, Studio and Game Director at Saber Porto is joining us today. It’s developing the upcoming racing game and simulation Dakar Desert Rally , and we had a chat at the Gamescom show recently. Hopefully, you’ll be able to gather Paulo’s passion and dedication for this project, a brand new officially licenced title for the real-world Dakar rally raid. Set in an open-world Saudi Arabian environment, it mixes five vehicle categories – truck, car, motorcycle, quad bike and SSV – plus the past...
Sep 26, 2022•28 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Joining us on this episode are representatives of sim racing equipment manufacturer Next Level Racing and world-renowned car company Ford. The two companies are working together on a line of Ford GT and Team Fordzilla virtual racing cockpits and seats – but more than that, they are trying to expand the audience for our beloved past-time. Both were present at Gamescom, a German show that covers the general gaming industry and usually has less of a racing game presence. But not this year, with a b...
Sep 20, 2022•16 min•Season 5Ep. 3
We have six guests on this week’s episode, as we visited Milton Keyes in the English Midlands, the home industrial estates and dual carriageways, but also the Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team. At its base also lives the Oracle Red Bull Racing Erena, where the drivers for the upcoming F1 Esports Series Pro Championship have been training ahead of the upcoming season. In this episode you’ll head from Red Bull Racing drivers Marcel Kiefer, Frede Rasmussen and Liam Parnell, followed by the new-look Sc...
Sep 09, 2022•36 min•Season 5Ep. 2
In this episode of the Traxion.GG podcast, we are joined by André Eriksen, founder and CEO of the Asetek group and therefore Asetek SimSports. Talk about making waves, the Danish company’s first product – the hydraulic Invicta sim racing pedals – shook the industry with its baking feedback, and here we discuss the company’s future plans for sim racing domination. New wheels and wheel bases in a three-tiered range. Future Pagani-licenced products alongside a cockpit. Eriksen also recaps the compa...
Sep 05, 2022•39 min•Season 5Ep. 1
The fourth season of the Traxon.GG Podcast has come to a close - thank you to everyone who made this our most listened-to run so far and to who went on the show to discuss sim racing and racing video games. Over the past 15 episodes, we spoke to the great and the good from our little corner of video game fandom, from independent game developers to racing esports event organisers and everything in-between. Fret not - we will be back with a new season later in the year, with planning already under...
Jul 11, 2022•7 min•Season 4Ep. 16
A sim racing print magazine, a yearly awards ceremony and now an esports competition with a difference - the Virtual Competition Organisation, aka VCO Esports, has a lot going on, and its aims are to enhance our community. Joining us on this episode of the Traxion.GG Podcast is VCO CEO Florian Haasper, who explains how his BMW Motorsport and sports journalism background are helping push VCO and his agency bürosüd plus to new levels. We discuss Munich's new role as a sim racing hub, how the SEND ...
Jun 25, 2022•39 min•Season 4Ep. 15
On this week's Traxion.GG Podcast we are joined by Jesper Pedersen, co-founder, and Michi Hoyer, racer, of the Burst Esport squad to discuss how a professional sim racing esports teams earns a living, stays competitive and punches above its weight. Competing in several rFactor 2 competitions such as the Le Mans Virtual Series and Formula Pro Series, the Danish squad has been expanding its horizons of late competition in the multi-platform VCO Esports Racing League and looking to take part in fur...
Jun 20, 2022•21 min•Season 4Ep. 14
On this episode of the Traxion.GG Podcast we are going to be talking about French sportscars, specifically Alpine sportscars. The company makes the delectable A110 at present but has big plans for shaking up the car market. Sim racing and esports are part of those plans, so listen as we speak to established professional sim racer (with Veloce Esports) and real-world British GT race winner James Baldwin plus Guillaume Vergnas head of partnerships and esports at Alpine, to try and find out where t...
Jun 13, 2022•29 min•Season 4Ep. 13
With F1 Manager 2022 on the way in August – the 30th to be precise – we were invited down to the creator’s Cambridge studios to try the game and speak to some of the development team. Joining us on this episode of the Traxion.GG Podcast are Frontier Development’s Adam Woods, the title’s Executive Producer and Andy Fletcher, F1 Manager 2022’s Game Director. Hear how important the Formula 1 licence is to the team, the challenge of balancing realism with accessibility and what happens if you fail i...
Jun 08, 2022•19 min•Season 4Ep. 12
On this episode of the Traxion.GG podcast we are joined by Morris Hebecker, CEO and Co-founder of new sim racing platform RENNSPORT . In this interview hear confirmation that the latter feature is not an NFT or blockchain-based venture and how you will be able to play an early build of this game sooner rather than later. Think of it as a brand new driving game that simulates racing, aiming to be the next Assetto Corsa Competizione or RaceRoom Racing Experience. It is unique, however, built by a ...
Jun 02, 2022•23 min•Season 4Ep. 11
