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Competing against the AI drivers was a treat. The in-game paint booth wasn’t really anything to write home about, but it was serviceable. Having the ability to import your own paint schemes or logos made the experience even grander.
Even if this game didn’t have a community behind it, these things were sharp. The original 2003-style bodies were pretty awesome on their own. It was still before the time of laser scanning, but these tracks had a true realistic nature surrounding them.
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With the majority of the NASCAR Cup Series field included with realistic ratings, players could immerse themselves in racing at all 23 tracks on the current schedule at that time. The base edition of NASCAR Racing 2003 Season was pretty legit on its own. NR2003 is one of those games that will always be remembered in my own metaphorical racing game Hall of Fame. That’s what it said on the box, at least. For that, I’ll always appreciate what NR2003 was and still is to this day – to me, it’s an absolute icon in sim racing. I’ve made lifelong friends, progressed through college and even picked up a job in writing about NASCAR through that game. Truth is that I probably wouldn’t have a career in writing if it wasn’t for that community. From 2005 to 2020, NASCAR Racing 2003 Season was my primary racing game of choice. Looking back on it, those NR2003 years were some of the best of my life. This year on 4th February in North America, NASCAR Racing 2003 Season turns 19 years old. I’ve administrated leagues, helped run communities and experienced all of the successes one could get out of it. I’ve probably spent thousands, if not tens of thousands of hours behind the wheel on NR2003. I may have missed out on the title’s best years, but even so, it’s incredible to me to still see an active community surrounding it 19 years later in 2022. Having been pulled off the shelves in early 2004 due to licensing challenges, it was the only way at the time to get the game. My parents bought me a used copy from eBay for about $200 in 2005. In the mid-2000s, I finally got my hands on a copy of NASCAR Racing 2003 Season. I graduated up to console gaming with the EA Sports games, but those were perhaps overly accessible.Įventually, I came across the Papyrus library and got a hold of NASCAR Racing, NASCAR Racing 2, NASCAR Racing 1999 Season and NASCAR Racing 2002 Season. As a huge NASCAR fan, I had Bill Elliott’s NASCAR Challenge, but it wasn’t great.
#NASCAR RACING 4 MODS PRO#
Last Saturday’s Pro All Stars Series 150-lap race, won by DJ Shaw, was the final chance for PASS Super Late Model drivers to compete in real racing conditions before Oxford 250 Sunday.When I started sim racing back in the mid-nineties, racing video games and technology were both pretty scarce. Mike’s grandson and Ben’s nephew, Max, also drove it this year.
But the grind of Oxford 250 weekend, which includes multiple days of practice before qualifying along with the Sunday feature, is not something the elder Rowe wants to attempt while battling health issues, Ben Rowe told Racing America.īen’s turn in the car will mark three generations of Rowes who will have wheeled the car this season. Mike Rowe drove his car from the middle of the pack into the top 10 in Saturday’s race before he suffered a blown tire. The elder Rowe, a three-time Oxford 250 winner, took part in last Saturday night’s PASS 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway, but Racing America first had the news that he will be turning the car over to his son for Oxford 250 weekend. Rowe will take over his father Mike’s No. Well, Rowe did find a ride, one as equally familiar as it is somewhat surprising. After it was announced that two-time Oxford 250 champ Ben Rowe had split with longtime race team Richard Moody Racing, speculation has been swirling about if and how the Turner native would be competing in this year’s Oxford 250.
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