Richard Burns Rally

Here’s how Richard Burns Rally came to be, became sim rally’s bellwether, failed and, ultimately, succeeded.

A comprehensive new update for Rallysimfans’ Richard Burns Rally mod has been released, reducing its installation size, adding five new stages, adding advanced MoTeC support and a new offline championship mode.

Tommi Mäkinen claimed the first-ever Traxion community rally victory holding off the likes of WRC Esports competitor Lillian Richard in the process.

On the 20th anniversary of its PC release we look back at the success and failures of Richard Burns Rally and why it’s still considered the most realistic rally sim around.

To help celebrate 20 years since Richard Burns Rally released on PC, we sat down to chat with three people crucial to the sim’s continued success: AleksiP and mika-n of Rallysimfans, plus the inimitable WorkerBee.