The D.I.C.E. Award for Racing Game of the Year is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards. This recognizes "titles that allow the user to participate in a contest in which the objective is to convey an object through a course of virtual physical progress as quickly as possible. Racing games may involve competition against other user-controlled competitors or against system controlled competitors. Racing games must simulate vehicular motion". All active creative/technical, business, and affiliate members of the Academy are qualified to vote for this category. It was originally presented as Console Racing Game of the Year, with its first winner being Diddy Kong Racing, developed and published by Rare.
The award's most recent winner is Mario Kart World, developed by Nintendo EPD and published by Nintendo.
Criterion Games and Turn 10 Studios have developed the most racing game award winners, with Codemasters receiving the most nominations as a developer. Bizarre Creations and Evolution Studios both received the most nominations without a win as developers. Electronic Arts has published the most finalists and the most winners. Electronic Arts has also published five consecutive award winners from 2003 to 2007. EA Black Box is the only developer with back-to-back wins for ' in 2003 and ' in 2004. Nintendo and Microsoft Studios also have back-to-back wins as publishers: Microsoft Studios won with Forza Motorsport 6 in 2016 and Forza Horizon 3 in 2017, and Nintendo won with Mario Kart Tour in 2020 and ' in 2021.
The three most nominated and award-winning franchises, Forza, Need for Speed, and Mario Kart, all have back-to-back wins for Racing Game of the Year:
Mario Kart 8 and Burnout Revenge are the only games that have been nominated twice; both the Wii U original and the Switch Deluxe versions of Mario Kart 8 have won the awards, while Burnout Revenge has won on its second nomination for the Xbox 360 version. The Dirt franchise has the most nominations without a win.