From Sonic City News Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Built on SEGA’s “Secret Sauce” from SEGA Rally and OutRun

Developers behind Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds say the game draws on SEGA’s racing legacy, mixing the DNA of SEGA Rally and OutRun with the precision of Initial D.

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one minor correction – according to automaton’s own english translation, it was the student of the original sega rally programmer who was at AM plus, not the programmer himself

having read between the lines i am pretty sure the programmer and student in question are kazuhiro mori and makoto shimooka – their development credits on sega retro certainly line up more than anyone else for it to be the case…