Found this game on My Abondonware.

It works great under WINE, but you need a No CD Patch. I used Ballistics v1.0 [ENGLISH] No-CD/Fixed EXE #3 which worked perfectly.

I guess I answered my own question 🫢

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistics_(video_game)

Does anyone remember a computer game from around 2002-2003 by Grin software? I thought it was called Ballistics but must be misremembering.

It was like these games but you were in a tunnel and the ship stuck to the edges so you’d have to rotate around obstacles or temporarily use the release to float off and reattach. I remember it being very fast.

I beta tested the game for Linux but don’t think the Linux port ever went GA before the Linux publisher (maybe LGP) shutdown.