The game ships with more than 300 cars spread across nine distinct racing classes, anchored by the complete 2006 and 2007 FIA World Touring Car Championship seasons. Beyond the WTCC content, eight additional classes expand the roster, all accessible across 32 circuits drawn from real-world venues around the globe, including 14 tracks that appeared on the official 2006 and 2007 WTCC calendars.
Multiplayer requires installation of the Steam client and an active Steam account, making Race 07 one of the early mainstream racing simulators to integrate Steam as its sole online infrastructure at launch.
SimBin supported Race 07 with nine expansion packs, building out one of the largest content ecosystems for any single sim-racing title of the period:
GTR Evolution brought GT racing content to the platform. STCC – The Game, released on October 22, 2008, featured the 2008 Swedish Touring Car Championship season alongside the Camaro Cup support series. Race On, released internationally on October 16, 2009, added the 2008 World Touring Car Championship season, the International Formula Master series, and a collection of American muscle cars in both road and race-tuned configurations. Race On was sold both as a standalone bundle including Race 07 and STCC – The Game, and as a cheaper add-on for existing owners.
Formula Raceroom, released on March 18, 2011, was offered free of charge and introduced a Formula One-style car alongside the Hockenheimring circuit. The remaining expansions — STCC – The Game 2, GT Power, WTCC 2010, RETRO, and Race Injection — continued to extend the content library across multiple touring car eras and disciplines.
Race 07 earned a moderately positive reception from the specialist press. IGN summarized the game's limitations for newcomers, writing that it was "not as likely to win over a casual racer, because little was done to cultivate new hardcore sim racing fans here." Several outlets including PC Format, Eurogamer, Boomtown, and PTGamers converged on the view that "visuals aren't the main attraction of the game." PC Zone directed criticism at the artificial intelligence and crash damage modeling, while GameShark highlighted the game's longevity as a particular strength.
The Race On expansion received a more divided response, landing a Metacritic average of 73 percent. IT Reviews described it as "good value for money" for players new to the Race 07 ecosystem — citing the large combined car and track count — but characterized it as "a slightly less compelling purchase" for those who already owned the base game. PC Gamer UK reached a similar conclusion, calling it "not bad value if you're new to Race 07" while acknowledging the thinner proposition for existing owners.
Race 07 and its network of expansions represent a significant chapter in the development of PC sim racing during the late 2000s and early 2010s. The WTCC license gave the game an authenticity that set it apart from more arcade-oriented competitors, and the sustained expansion program kept the title commercially and competitively relevant for several years after its initial release. SimBin's evolution into Sector3 Studios and later KW Studios carried forward the institutional knowledge and community relationships built around the Race 07 platform, forming a direct lineage to later titles in the studio's catalog.
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