Project Motor Racing Shows Gillet Vertigo, Mosport Screenshots

Project Motor Racing Gillet Vertigo.jpg
Taking to social media, the team behind Project Motor Racing has unveiled screenshots of the Gillet Vertigo, a prominent model in GTR2 from the same team as well as Mosport Circuit.

Following its name change from GTRevival to Project Motor Racing, the Straight4 Studios team headed by Ian Bell has been somewhat quiet.

But despite the change of identity, the title's main focus appears to remain the same. In January, the game's social media pages unveiled the inclusion of renowned GT1 racer, the Saleen S7R. Well now, another fan favourite from the team's previous title, GTR2, is also seemingly bound for the game in the form of the Gillet Vertigo alongside a new track, Mosport.

Gillet Vertigo in Project Motor Racing​

The Gillet Vertigo was one of the many skunkworks supercars that arrived on the scene in the late-1990s and earl-2000s pairing a large capacity V6 with modern GT lines and an arts and crafts touch.

But deciding that the world of high end automotive money bags was not enough, the Belgian manufacturer soon decided to enter its whacky creation into the world of motorsport. Built to the FIA GT Series' G2 class specification, it managed championship-winning status in 2006, 2007 and 2008.


However, it was in 1996 that the first competitive Gillet took to the racetrack becoming a staple of the Belgian Belcar series.

Due to its entry and success in the FIA GT Series, the Gillet Vertigo earned its place on the GTR2 car list and became a known to sim racers around the world for competing alongside the equally as crazy BMW M3 GTR. However since then, the car has fallen away from official racing game inclusion. Whilst there is no confirmation of the car joining the game's roster in the PMR post, it would sit nicely alongside the previously announced Saleen and Lister.

Mosport in Project Motor Racing​

In late-2023, when the game sported the GTRevival title, Straight4 Studios announced the first tracks in-game being Lime Rock and Sebring. Now, as part of this most recent post, it seems the two North American tracks will be joined by a third in the form of Mosport.

Whilst far less prominent than the Gillet in the screenshot, motorsport fans will clearly point out the downhill Turn 1 of the Canadian circuit.

What other cars and tracks do you want to see in Project Motor Racing? Let us know in the comments.
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used to run it a lot in RACE07, I think it was part of the GTR Evo DLC. Shown here in my team Blue Flag Racing skin, those were the days!
If this new title ever sees the light of day, I will gladly relive those days (but I guess by then my PC will be so out of date, it won't make the minimum specs, lol.)

edit: oops, turns out this is a Marcos not a Gillet. My bad, it's been some years ...
 
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What other cars and tracks do you want to see in Project Motor Racing?
At this point I care more about the tech, rather than content. Graphics, physics, force feedback, AI, performance. They could have all the cars and tracks in the world, but if the basics are not there it's not going to be good.

However I understand showing content is the easiest strategy to catch some attention. If they are showing off "GTR" content, hopefully they have the whole grid for starters.
 
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used to run it a lot in RACE07, I think it was part of the GTR Evo DLC. Shown here in my team Blue Flag Racing skin, those were the days!
If this new title ever sees the light of day, I will gladly relive those days (but I guess by then my PC will be so out of date, it won't make the minimum specs, lol.
That looks like a different car. Did Gillet change the styling later on? That looks more like a Marcos.
 
Well at least it's not focused on the grass this time...

After 3 vaporware level titles and Need for Speed shift 2 it's been a hard time trusting this developer to do anything worth my time since the GTR2 days... Hence they always use that in their marketing...

But once fooled twice shy...
 
Gillet Vertigo is probably my most used GTR2 SimBin vanilla standard content car (i.e. when I deduct my non-SimBin car mod series) and tons of Vertigo skins for various delightful championship series setup using GTR2 Championship Manager, MET tool besides hdv/gpb fiddling for adding alike Vertigo full car mods + skins...... and moreover in fact had the pleasure of trying pedal to the metal track day in a real deal track prepared street car version.

Remember I at NGR forum mentioned this was the most underrated car of them all especially for the tight track mods that came with it. Had a 30 event championship offline series on a 1991 Phoenix GP track mod. Where it was criticized as "dull" for the F1 venue, it was in GTR2 against a number of other finely tuned Gillet Vertigo's some of the best offline racing I had.

However - this article makes me want to dive into my 15-17 year old hobby again, and it could be fun to repeat the success in GTR2 CC VR racing in my newer simrig/hardware - rather than PMR "early access" torment. The former worked, and now with better options. Then I can wait for a full non-Beta PMR title.
 
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GTR Revival is kinda late for its own revival. No, I kinda don't wish to drive those same cars 20 years later. And not from the hands of Ian Bell for sure. If the guy is clueless as to what the community needs/wants regarding this niche in the information age..
 
Buuuuut...simracers demand and deserve the hottest 2025 cars (and 2026 if they could)! Not some old rusty piece of junk nobody remembers... If it is not the latest GT3 or prototype that made its first race last week or that hasn't even raced yet, it might as well not exist /s
 
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"What other cars and tracks do you want to see in Project Motor Racing? Let us know in the comments."

GTR2 back catalogue please - start there. Then add in BTCC, and in fact the entire Race07 catalogue.

That would be a fantastic game - assuming it doesn't have the physics of a wet turnip being thrown into a bathtub.
 
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GTR Revival is kinda late for its own revival. No, I kinda don't wish to drive those same cars 20 years later. And not from the hands of Ian Bell for sure. If the guy is clueless as to what the community needs/wants regarding this niche in the information age..
And it looks like you're late for the name change, it's Project Motor Racing...
And, I'll be happy for you not to drive those cars from 20 years ago, you just go enjoy the new stuff, there's plenty for you out there.
 
GTR Revival is kinda late for its own revival. No, I kinda don't wish to drive those same cars 20 years later. And not from the hands of Ian Bell for sure. If the guy is clueless as to what the community needs/wants regarding this niche in the information age..
You are wrong on so many levels. Many people don't like the new cars with all the electronics assist and wimpy engine sounds. How many simulation tiltes have you built and sold for millions of dollars? I think Ian Bell understands sim racers better than you do, especially as a "Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neurology Residency Program"
 

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