- New gear grind sound, increased chance of grinding from damaged gears.

- Added rally-style pacenotes with voice-over to time attack maps

- 2 New Time Attack maps

- Removed "Waiting for CPU opponents" loading screen for time attack maps and multiplayer

- Added a tip to reset the car if player faces the wrong way

- Significant improvement in performance when rendering snow or other rain-like effects

- Setting particles to "None" fully disables particles, instead of setting particle count to be very very low.

- Improved readability of numbers on the tachometer

- Fix a crash related to CPU opponents

- Prevent pause menu from appearing when exiting dialogs by pressing ESC