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You wouldn't even BE here if it weren't for the Internet.

As with most products today, you can't really push the limits without thinking on a global scale. Racer is no exception, and internet is playing a great part in the project. I would not have gone this far with this project if it wasn't for a LOT of people.

PEOPLE

Developers (next to myself):

• Uwe Schuerkamp, added support for sound on Linux (first SDL, then FMOD, which was ported back to Windows).
• Dominik Pospisil, added support for controllers on Linux.
• Paul Harrington, for the idea of using suspension forces instead of tire forces for the wheel motions. Currently tire forces are used again though, since they add a little bit more realism.

Here are some thank you's to people who have helped, in semi-chronological order:

• Todd Wasson (from Performance Simulations), Matthew V. Jessick, Ashley McConnell, Han Monsees, Peter Prochazka and many others for endless discussions on physics in rec.autos.simulators.
• Jesper Adolfsson, for sharing his VRML oval track and ideas with me.
• Gregor Veble, for interesting discussions on R.A.S., code and ideas about carsims.
• Richard Chaney, for providing his CarDemo, from which I learned enough about quaternions and rigid bodies to implement them.
• Pat Painter, for creating the Ferrari P4, the first SCGT car to be imported here.
• Hardy Mutschall (Bobonen), for allowing me to use and distribute his tracks.
• Mark J. Nelson (from The Sim Project), for the first official Racer forum.
• Anthony Hirst, for sharing his VRL loader and for looking into the source code (who knows!).
• Chris West, for his passion about WSC aka Racing Legends (which is a great inspiration) and for making time amidst all the coding to give some very nice and interesting conversations.
• Doug Milliken, for writing "Racing Car Vehicle Dynamics", which I use as a base reference for the physics, and for showing up in rec.autos.simulators and sharing his expertise on the subject (he's currently writing another book on suspension modeling from work done in the 30's, and working on other books as well it seems).
• Randy Cassidy, for being a driving force behind Grand Prix Legends, without which this project would never have started (this IS an attempt to get something so open that a GPL2-like program would be possible by others to make).
• Andy (who did some car conversions), David RB, Dan Belcher and others for testing and reporting problems.

Without these people, Racer wouldn't have been what it is today, and what it will become in the future. Sharing knowledge is the best way to fast progress.

Thanks to all!

(last updated December 30, 2014 )