I always thought Crash was PS mascot for some reason.
Well, the first 3~ games were published by Sony so that's what we all thought.
EDIT
From wikipedia:
QUOTECrash Team Racing is the fourth installment in the Crash Bandicoot series, which began with Crash Bandicoot in 1996. It is the first Crash game in the racing genre, and the last Crash game to be developed by Naughty Dog, who left Universal Interactive Studios (now Vivendi Games) and became an in-house developer for Sony Computer Entertainment.