It's the most fan-friendly sports event in North America, and I'll stick by that.
My in-laws are really into NASCAR, even though to me they wouldn't fit the profile or my perception of what a NASCAR fan is, and so in the last 10 years I've gone up to for a NASCAR weekend about once every couple years. because their girlfriends think he's so hot and all this other strange stuff instead of the racing start leaving, they'll be in trouble like Indy style racing has in this country for the past decade.I voted "No," because I don't -watch- NASCAR or actively follow the sport at all, but I've been to the NASCAR race in New Hampshire about 5 times. And as soon as the sport stops being cool and the people that watch it for things like Dale Earnhardt Jr. They're losing their fans that have been with them for years (And not just the Confederate flag waving redneck drunks, there's normal fans out there like myself ). Throwing away the sport's biggest piece of history with the exception of the Daytona 500 has to be a mistake I would hope. It makes perfect business sense, but NASCAR's a sanctioning body and net profits should not be the overriding theme in how they handle the sport in my opinion. The Southern 500 disappearing a few years ago would be like someone saying the Cold War was going to end eventually a few decades ago. This year they were cut back to just a race over Mother's Day weekend. Last year there was a Southern 500 ran late in the year at Darlington in addition to a race in the spring. So NASCAR gave away the Labor Day date to California Speedway starting in 2004. But as NASCAR's grown more popular in the 1990's and ticket prices have rose, the saturation of tracks in the Southeast meant that some tracks weren't selling out and had smaller crowds then some of the new venues like Texas Motor Speedway and Kansas Speedway. Was traditionally held on Labor Day weekend in early September each year. The Southern 500 was NASCAR's first 500 mile race they ever held back in 1950 at Darlington Raceway's opening in South Carolina (Was the first superspeedway in NASCAR.a track 1 mile or longer). Definitely a must have for the GC with lots of replayability.Īnyone want to post any of their car setups for some of the tracks?
#NASCAR THE GAME FORUMS SERIES#
Also, I like the fact that if you start in carreer mode, you start driving a dirt car, get some recognition and then move up to the modified series (my favorite) then the truck and cup series.
#NASCAR THE GAME FORUMS DRIVERS#
I'm not worried about the expression of my drivers face when another driver trades paint with him but I like the fact that if my car gets damaged on the track the handling reflects it. When it comes time to set the car up you have a ton more choices and a small tweek to just one of them will not render the car undriveable. Quick setup, easy to understand, you don't have to spend an hour making your character (a problem I have with all of EA's sports games). just the slightest change would be too much.ĭirt to Daytona is another story. I had a lot of problems with trying to dial the car in a bit more for each track. I tried the 2005 chase for the cup and just found it to be somewhat playable.
During the summer on weekends, I'm am the Head of Scoring at a dirt track in southern Ohio, needless to say I need a little dirt action here and there.