Hi all,
The new update should be available in a week or so, here are a few details about what will be included and a few details about what is coming to FCR in the near future.

Weather Types
Weather types are back in all single player modes.
You can choose from sunny, mostly clear, partly cloudy, mostly cloudy, foggy, light rain, heavy rain, thunder storm, random weather and dynamic weather where the weather will change during the course of a race.
The surface materials of all tracks will change to reflect the amount of water on the ground.
I’m working on adding snow weather types but they won’t be included in the next update.

Racing in a storm

Time of Day
You can now choose from morning, afternoon, evening or night.
Lights will operate automatically when visibility is low.

Racing at night

Car Colours
You can now choose from 8 different presets to define the colour of your car.

Race Duration
You can now choose the amount of laps to race over (single player race only)

New sound FX
The old engine and boost sounds have been replaced with new assets.

Boost
Boost has been added as a proper game mechanic. Fill your boost meter by drifting your car then hit B to use your boost.

New Particle Effects
Rain spray has been added when the race is being held on certain surface types (wet concrete and wet asphalt.)

New menu
A new menu to contain all the new options.

Multiplayer Server Browser
Multiplayer server browser now shows how many people are in the lobby looking for a game and also shows details of any races in progress.

I think that’s all the changes for now.

The near future

There are never many people playing the multiplayer version of FCR at any one time.
I think this is because people flip over to multiplayer and most of the time no one else is online so I’m going to implement a system where a player can create a room then go off and play the single player version of FCR and be notified when another player enters the multiplayer room.
This should give players a greater chance of finding an open game and racing against other players.

More Game Modes

Multiplayer will get Demolition Derby and Capture The Flag modes.

New tracks

One new circuit - a speedway oval is almost ready to go. It just needs coding into the game. I may or may not get this done before the next update.

Multiplayer fixes and added functionality.

At the moment, damage is not networked so one player can lose a wheel or body part and it doesn’t show on the other players screens.
This will be fixed in a future update.
Other things need to be considered too such as particles, time of day and weather effects. These will all be added in a future update.

Many thanks for playing and reporting issues as you spot them.
Please feel free to contact me in the comments section.

Paul.