Sonic Team comments on why Sonic uses a car to race

When we see a new Sonic racing game come around, some fans ask the question as to why the Blue Blur uses a car to race. After all, he’s extremely quick on his own, right? Well, Team Sonic head Takashi Tezuka has now offered his input directly.

Tezuka said that this comes to the idea of Sonic wanting to have fun. If he were to race on his own, it just wouldn’t be much of a competition. 

Iizuka told Shacknews the following about why Sonic uses a car when racing:

“So yes, Sonic likes actually having fun. That competitive spirit and having fun with his friends competitively is one element that Sonic really enjoys. If we were just running flat out, Sonic is going to be faster than everyone. It’s not so much fun and it’d be really more enjoyable to Sonic to be in a car, to be racing, and have that fun competitive edge with his friends. That’s why he’s racing.”

SEGA did comment on this many years ago – sort of. Aaron Webber, who was a part of the company’s social media and PR team at the time, offered input awhile back. However, now we have insight from Sonic Team directly.

Sonic will be appearing in his next racing game with Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds. It’s heading to Nintendo Switch on September 25 and Switch 2 sometime later.