http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35002
--- Comment #2 from mr jingle Salz85@gmail.com 2013-11-27 09:52:50 CST --- Well, It seems that the previous bug was abandoned before anyone had verified if installing the direct play libraries would have fixed the issue. I can confirm that the issue remains after installing them on wine 1.7.7 .
From what I can read online,this game uses an early version of the engine later
used for the Ford Racing series, which appears to be somewhat working in wine.