RELEASE DATE: 18 DECEMBER 2025

NEW CONTENT

• Added Alpine A110 Group 4 1973

• Added “Ghiacciodromo Livigno” Ice Circuit

• Added 2 new ACR Events groups, and a total of 25 new ACR Events

• Added snow physics and snow-studded tires

STAGES AND CIRCUITS

• Added Ghiacciodromo Livigno Ice Circuit

• Added missing trees to backdrop areas throughout Saverne

• Improved collisions on some log piles in Saverne and Wales

• Fixed “that” traffic sign pole in the town of Saverne

CARS

• Added Alpine A110 Group 4 1973

• Added studded tires

• Fixed issues related to wheel offsets

• Fixed missing textures on some rims

• Mitigated pixelated glows on car lights

• Added support for all country flags on air intakes

• Fixed suspension issues

• Fixed tire flex direction

INPUT

• Improved overall steering wheels support. We will keep improving the codebase until all steering wheels and sim-racing peripherals are fully supported and working

• Added Hat Switch (e.g. directional buttons) support for steering wheels

• Added double gear up/down inputs

• Added the possibility to bind Neutral gear on steering wheels

• Added wipers input

PHYSICS

• Fixed FFB inconsistency with some cars

• Improved FFB under braking

• Fixed some FFB effects that were pushing the steering wheel on the wrong side

• Improved throttle to make it more linear with the gas pedal

• Improved brake power for some discs and callipers

• Improved Gravel and Tarmac physics and tire models based on new data that we acquired: Rally drivers validated the new handling. The tire model will keep evolving during the Early Access based on new field research, data and feedback from players and rally drivers

• Introduced Snow physics and Snow studded tires

• Improved the behavior of the tire model at extreme drift angles

• Returned some differentials and some setup presets

AUDIO

• Added engine/exhaust sounds for Alpine A110 Group 4 1973

• Added the first implementation of Snow tires surface audio

• Livigno Ice Circuit environmental audio setup

• Improved responsiveness of the asphalt skid audio

• Improved vehicle scraping responsiveness

• Removed slowdown UI sounds in replay

• Fixed issue with wall reverb being louder in the cabin than in external views

• Moved rear engine emitters further forward in surround mix

• Many small audio mix tweaks across the game

GAMEPLAY & UI

• Added 2 new ACR Events groups and a total of 25 new ACR Events

• Fixed frequent crash after exiting the leaderboards page

• Fixes for the Chinese language

• Increased ranges for camera customization settings

• Reduced allocated memory in race

• Added AI tire management to make AI times more accurate, depending on race conditions

• Fixed the start sequence cheat found by users

• Improved helmet camera movements

• Fix the French co-driver issue with some calls having Left and Right inverted

• Fix Multiple text errors and typos

• Improved description for Differentials setup and Gear sets

• Fix UI not hidden correctly during replay and main menu

• Fixed Lithuanian Flag

• Improved time of day for each location to better reflect the period of the year

• New opening splash screen

• Fixed some road signs' physics in Wales Hafren North and Saverne

• Pace notes revision to Wales Hafren North and Saverne Reverse stages

• Added missing dressing to some junctions of Wales Hafren North

• Fixed race start marshals not working properly on Hafren North Reverse Cut 1

• Fixed intersecting barriers at Munster

• Fixed some missing characters for the player profile name

• Fixed “Service Park” time not resetting after the first service park in a rally weekend

• Added Hide/Show HUD option

ONLINE

• Time attack, “Recommended Time” feature: now players can choose reference times from the leaderboards and compete against them

• Faster leaderboards download

• Faster download of “best player time”

• Faster time upload

• Improved login recovery mechanism

• Fixed an authentication error that prevented the game from coming back online

• Fixed an issue with the Profiles API that prevented some requests from completing in a certain scenario

• Fixed an issue that prevented the Leaderboard upload/download from completing in a certain scenario

• Migrated to a different hosting service

• Improved clustering settings

• Reduced the amount of technical telemetry recorded

• Display name is now synchronised with Steam's one

VFX, LIGHTING & ART DIRECTION

• New vehicle particles for snow surfaces

• New, more persistent particle emitters for dusty materials

• New particle systems for collisions against snow

• Support for subsurface scattering on environment and props shaders

• Base track shader improvements to better support snow materials, different road conditions and track flows

• Overall shaders optimization to slightly reduce GPU and memory load

• Fixed a bug where track materials could sometimes use dynamic parameters (dynamic track) for tarmac on all other surface types

• Improved particle lighting coming from headlights and backlights

• Added support to blend some of the ground scatter meshes with the ground materials

• Added new Sky setup with Livigno Ice Circuit geographic coordinates

• Added weather presets for snowy conditions

• Updated the sky system to improve the visual rendering of the atmosphere

• Added custom lighting setup for Livigno Ice Circuit