OH the controversies...

[cowboy40]

This is why I like NASCAR Racing 2003 season, It allows you to capture the history of NASCAR and many other different series. When the game was produced, it was the best racing simulation of this type on the market, even NASCAR drivers were using it to develop track strategies and to practice the tracks before races. I Like the sim because it allows to cover the wide history of Stock car racing.

And even relive some of the controversies of the sport...

Starting in 1989, NASCAR changed some of the car rules for the Winston Cup Series. stronger body panels, modified wheelbase..you know things to make the car a bit safer at the speeds they were starting to reach...this begins the era of the restricter plate on Super Speedway type tracks. Though this is the controversy that got the most attention...that was GM switching from the Chevrolet Monte Carlo body style to the Chevrolet Lumina. that stirred the passions...lol

In 1988, the teams were in bridled in the "tire wars" between Goodyear and Hooser, but again it was this...

1988 Chevrolet Monte Carlo...being replaced by the....

1989 Chevrolet Lumina.

Who can figure us NASCAR fanatics out?

And yes i still enjoy this 20 year old sim...

[cowboy40]

General Motors, once again, with the 1995 aero package rules, changed the Chevrolet back to a redesigned Monte Carlo...

With the new rule changes came a safer car...1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo

The side panels were skirted closer to the ground: and roof and hood flaps were added to the aero package...along with a slightly more powerful small block V-8 naturally exasperated (fancy term for a carburetor) engine. The new package was meant to counter the effects of air getting up under the car and causing it to go airborne...a state that is known as a "blowover"...

[rabid]

I would only know about this passively from playing Gran Tourismo.

yet i wonder where is the electric car grand pix?

[cowboy40]

Aug 26, 2023 14:50:35 GMT -7 rabid said:

I would only know about this passively from playing Gran Tourismo.

yet i wonder where is the electric car grand pix?

I was raised in this stuff, on the weekends growing up, I would help my uncle in the dirt track pits all across Oklahoma and Arkansas. He would also run in the ASA, USAR and NASCAR late model divisions on short asphalt "Bull Rings". Paved tracks that were .500 of a mile or less. So I got to know short track racing at some of its best on a weekly basis.