Lutris does have a well-working installer for the SoapBox launcher. However, it seems that some specific servers aren’t supported, due to restricting the new WebCalls thing for security reasons, I guess, such as NightRiderz, from what I assume. https://lutris.net/games/soapbox-race-world-need-for-speed-world/
Similarly, there’s System Admin Girl★まんがでわかるLinux シス管系女子 Imported a physical edition just for the quirky factor of a Linux Admin manga, but it is pretty well made and does explain pretty well some bits (even if from the first episode, they explain how to do VNC if i remember, from a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop, so fairly easy and old) but it still on-going !
NightRiderz is a server, SoapBox RaceWorld is the actual client recreating NFS : World https://soapboxrace.world/