The studio had radically expanded from a small group of people to a team of over 60 employees by the year 2007[1] drawing talent from other major British developers such as Rockstar Games, Rare, Codemasters, and Criterion Games.
[2] Its mission statement was to create driving games for the Western market while paying homage to Sega's legacy in the genre and developing new racing IPs.
At a later time, Sega announced none of the employees were folded into internal studios.
[6] On 25 April 2008 Codemasters announced that it had acquired Sega Racing Studio.
[7] When Grid 2 was announced, the studio was brought back up as Codemasters Racing.