The later Eurogamer writer Keith Stuart was commissioned to write an expansive backstory for the game, which was to be included in the printed manual.

It didn't really add anything, it was indulgent (...) No one will ever care that I spent several weeks writing that nonsense or that now it is gone forever".

[5] A Next Generation critic highly praised the variety of playable vehicles and tracks and the use of real time graphics.

However, he criticized the single-player mode for the AI's apparent cheating, since there is always one racer just slightly ahead of the player car, and recommended that consumers not buy the game until they've made certain they have someone who will play it with them.

[6] Frank Snyder of Computer Game Review offered Big Red Racing a positive score.