I'm guessing the game you're thinking of is San Francisco Rush 2049 (maybe?), the arcade developer of which was one of the guys making a statement in the KS video (the guy before Cliff B).I played Nitronic Rush for the first time just now for an hour. It's pretty fun. The freedom of movement is nice. I breezed through the story mode, I want to say it's too easy but I haven't played the hardcore levels or community levels. It reminds me of a dreamcast game I played once at a friends house. I forgot what it was called but what I played was like NRs stunt mode, can't remember if the cars had wings.
Or it could've been the DC release of pod, I think that was a thing.
Edit: So they're just shy of $100,000 now. I do hope they make it. As much as I thought the guy in the glasses was annoying in the video, that was only for the first few seconds before I realised that they're all really young guys and saw what they'd accomplished with Nitronic Rush.