RSF mod adds several new stages, including the historic Bignone Sanremo test
Four new single-player Rally Season themes added, including ‘94 WRC season
A new update has landed for Richard Burns Rally mod RallySimFans (RSF), with nine new stages added to the evergreen rally title.
The most eye-catching is undoubtedly Bignone Shakedown, a small taster of what we can expect when the full stage releases at a later date. Bignone is a classic Rallye Sanremo test used at national and international rally events from 1974 to the present day, including the halcyon Group B period from 1983 to 1986.
Set on the slopes of Mount Bignone in Italy, the stage has taken many forms over the decades, but all retain similar tight and twisty layouts, with narrow asphalt lanes punctuated by switchback turns.
Created by Italian modder Ballaround, Bignone will eventually expand from the Shakedown version’s 3 km length into a full-blown 11 km edition, once a €2500 donation goal is met, with a reverse-direction layout also primed for general release.
WRC fans may also be pleased to know that Comb, a former RAC Rally and current Malcolm Wilson Rally stage, also appears in the latest RSF update. Developed by Edd Hartley (who also produced Wythop), Comb was primarily used on the RAC in the latter days of Group B right up until 1992.
Further new and updated stages are listed in the changelog at the bottom of this article (there’s quite a few there I haven’t done justice to, so they’re all well worth checking out).
For many RBR players, the most important aspect of RSF’s latest update is the addition of several single-player offline championship seasons.
First introduced in October 2024, ‘Rally Seasons’ adds period-correct cars and drivers to the game, allowing players to race in RBR’s vanilla championship mode against authentic AI opposition.
For 1994, this means taking on the likes of Colin McRae’s Subaru Impreza, Tommi Mäkinen’s Mitsubishi or François Delecour’s iconic Ford Escort RS Cosworth.
As ever, accessing RSF is free of charge, with RBR now considered abandonware due to the implosion of its developer and publisher, Warthog Games and SCi Games. To find out more about RBR’s history, check out our comprehensive retrospective here.
For those who wish to know more about RSF and its legion of passionate developers, check out our interview with AleksiP and mika-n here, including input from RBR modding guru WorkerBee.
RSF for RBR August 2026 update changelog
New: The replay popup info screen (top right corner) used to show obsolete RBR information. Now this shows correctly the stage name, personal best time and a car group best time as a comparison time.
New: Improved keyboard support in RSFLauncher.MyReplays list. ENTER key replays the selected replay and DELETE key deletes all selected replay files from REPLAYS subfolder.
New: Rally Season themes Peugeot 106 Cup and R2 Cup contributed by Littlefysh.
New: Rally Season themes Group 4 1981 and WRC 1994 Group A contributed by Erich Mohrmann.
New: OpenRBRVR 2.2.4 (by Detegr). Couple new improvements and various bug fixes. See below more for details.
New: RBRControls 5.3.7 version. New JoyKey bindings and small bug fixes. See below for more details.
Fix: Improved network logic and more detailed log messages if something goes wrong. Hopefully this makes it easier to diagnose network connection issues. See rsfdata/logfile.txt and lognet.txt logfiles if RBR/RSF fails to talk with RSF servers.
New and updated maps. Please see below for more details.
Other tweaks and bug fixes here and there as usual.
OpenRBRVR 2.2.4 plugin by Detegr:
Fix SteamVR OpenXR initialization in DXVK.
Update multiview patcher to SPIRV-Tools v2026.2.
RBRControls 5.3.7 version:
HPattern carinfo.ini updates (fixed wrong gearbox types for couple cars).
New JoyKey Increase/Decrease Pacenote Callout distance bindings, see the new page 3 (contributed by RSWats).
Bug fix to handle very old RBRControls.ini INI files with an old RequireClutch option.
New maps:
609 Brantega 2010 (by zetta). See https://tracksbuilderspain.wixsite.com/home/zetta for more information.
610 Brantega 2010 R (by zetta).
621 Comb I (by Edd Hartley). See https://www.eddhartley.com/ for more information.
629 Ruapuke (by AJNZ, contributions by Envolved, PeterB, Cubits).
631 Bignone Shakedown (by Ballaround). See https://ko-fi.com/ballaround for more information.
634 Vyskovec (by Miro Kurek). See http://www.rbrcup.cz/ for more information.
635 Vyskovec okruh (by Miro Kurek).
641 Dobka-Partecznik Sprint (by Dej Krzysztof).
Updated maps:
508 Vilaplana 2007 (by Trasky). Added missing default pacenotes for evening weather options. Otherwise the map is still the same. No need to update the map if you already have pacenotes.
516 Halenkovice 2018 (by Miro Kurek). Fixed a couple of bad collision objects.
564 El Condor (by Trasky). Fixed couple collision objects and rock objects.
580 Helette (by MonkeyZy). Added missing default pacenotes for evening weather options. Otherwise the stage is the same. No need to update the stage if you already have pacenotes. See https://www.monkeyzytracks.com/ for more information.
602 Lescheraines-Arith (by DmRally). Animation fixes here and there, added a missing split marker, a new splash screen image. See https://dm3drbrevolution.blogspot.com/ for more information.
603 Arith-Lescheraines (by DmRally). A new splash screen image. Otherwise the map is still the same.
604 Tahekeroa (by AJNZ). Fixed couple bad collision objects, optimisations and updated ground textures.
New BTB to RBR converted maps:
528 Antaramanana II (by Beelabba. Conversion and RBR improvements by Thelc).
541 Limnis Plastiras (by Xaros. Conversion and RBR improvements by Thelc).
546 Monti di Ala (by ChrisB. Conversion and RBR improvements by Thelc).
551 Sleeping Warrior 2019 (by Rodrigo Rodriguez. Conversion and RBR improvements by Thelc+PeterB).
552 Karkaus (by Esko Kytömäki / TangoTeam. Conversion and RBR improvements by Thelc+PeterB).
594 Colorado Springs West Circuit A (by ChrisB. Conversion and RBR improvements by Thelc).
598 Colorado Springs West Hill Climb B (by ChrisB. Conversion and RBR improvements by Thelc).
599 Hurricane Peak Hillclimb Snow (by Casgra11. Conversion and RBR improvements by Thelc).
600 Arteara Artedara (by Airam. Conversion and RBR improvements by Thelc).
617 Komokoriki Hill Road 2021 (by AJNZ. Conversion and RBR improvements by PeterB).
618 Miadamanjaka (by Beelabba. Conversion and RBR improvements by PeterB).
619 Miadamanjaka II (by Beelabba. Conversion and RBR improvements by PeterB).
620 Stoccareddo (by Barto91. Conversion and RBR improvements by PeterB).
626 Vyskala SS4 (by Vileska. Conversion and RBR improvements by Thelc).
636 Te Parae Road (by AJNZ. Conversion and RBR improvements by PeterB).
640 Dylanda II (by Mikael ‘Jacken’ Jakobsson. Conversion, upscaled textures and RBR improvements by PeterB).
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