PC gamers (Nascar Racing 2003) Golden Gate track released

[Jimmy McKinley]

Had my own NR2003 racing series for a while (more like seven years...LOL). We were called the United Shorttrack Alliance. We ran on nothing bigger than Richmond or Lakeland when it was released. We held HUGE events like the All-American 400 at the Nashville Fairgrounds for years. Drew over 100 cars a few years back qualifying for 24 starting spots. Had a mid-season "Red, White, and Blue Triple 100's" at Madison, WI. Started to run the Snowball in 2004 until we found that the track had some "bugs" in it; not sure if they were ever worked out. Ran the World Series at New Smyrna for a coupla years, too, but it was offline and with N3. We'd run a 20-race season, ending at Nashville. There's a lot of online series out there that have a short track division, but we were the ORIGINAL short-track-only sim racing series, beginning in 1996, and NEVER Ran any "superspeedways".

Sure wish I didn't have to sell my copy of the game (I needed the money after getting divorced in 2006 :-( ). I had a TSW wheel/pedals that I bought used for like $250; these things go for like $500 brand-new.

I like the fact now that there's Street Stocks/Bombers/Thunder Cars, Trucks, ABC-type Late Models, Outlaw Wedge Late Models, a '70s short track mod (with Chevelles, Camaros, Mustangs, etc.), the 1970's Grand National mod, NASCAR Whelen Modifieds, winged Sprints...just all kinds of short track stuff out now.

*IF* I still had my NR2003, we'd be racing a Florida Championship series, seeing's how most of the paved tracks in Florida are "built" now for the sim, and running the Governor's Cup 200 at New Smyrna in November on a Sunday afternoon... ;-)

[flvideo]

Now thats what I'm talking about. I guess I.d better start getting stuff together. I can see it now gota get a dedicated PC for racing set up in the back of my studio. My XYL won't ever see me scept meals. Steveb73 can you hook me up with a copy of NR2003? And if so how much? Bob...

[JackTripper]

Jimmy, if you get back into NR2003 and want to host a series again, shoot me a PM and I can kick in a few bucks for hosting and such, if we have enough interest in a Florida Pro Series.

[Jimmy McKinley]

Would *love* to. But copies of the sim right sell for over $100 - why, I don't know...LOL...it's a six-plus-year-old sim. I guess because the demand is out there for it. Check out Steve's track lists for the Florida tracks that are available. We tried Orlando once, but there's a black-flag bug in it somewheres, and not sure if Justin (the "track builder" for Speed World) is still around. It's a great place to run by yourself (practice), but if you try to race there with multiple cars, you'll get black-flagged for jumping the start or cutting the infield or something.

There were a couple of different versions of New Smyrna. One, the first one, was just a redone Bristol with New Smyrna graphics. Then the second one was a totally new track, but not sure if it ever got finished.

I think CCMP and Citrus had just been finished up when I was getting out of it.

You also need a dedicated server to run the online racing end. I was actually renting one for $75 a month. Tried to get KARNAC to sponsor my series and cover those costs for me....LOL...but no go. That dedicated server also needs to have all the mods and tracks installed on it to be able to race, and I had a hard time getting my server guy to get the LMPV2 mod, let alone the Sprint cars, Street Stocks, and Modifieds, installed on the server to get them to run online.

We kept points for all nine of our racing years. No one driver ever won two points championships in the same division, and no one driver ever won our big races more than once. We had over 70 drivers sign up for our series, so we had good fields of cars...just couldn't keep guys from wrecking all the time. So a lot of our races were caution-fests :-\ and it kinda killed the actual racing (sound familiar...?? LMAO). In the last All-American 400 I ran, we had 26 starters. Before the 100 lap mark, we were down to ten cars left. I think only four actually finished the race, and only two on the lead lap.

Anyways...we had a lot of fun with it. Wish I had the time and effort to put back into it, but, between my girlfriend and I, we only have the one computer. I don't really have the time any more to mess with running a series. Sure wish I could, though...

I can still paint cars up, though I do some mean fictionals!

[Vic Merriam]

Hey Tripper I see a few of the Older Sunbelt cars I painted a couple years ago glad to there still out there and being used I need to get back to painting soon and get rid of this painters block Ive had for a while...LOL!

[DeMan951]

I also used to run my own league but then folded and joined another league with a few other guys that were racers at Sunshine Speedway (Robbie McAuliffe, Joe (Cool) Smith, Gcue aka Phil Schryver, and the race director Mike Smith. That league is still around but no longer runs N2003 however I still race every Tuesday night over at ECT http://www.eastcoastthunder.com/ in their SS Truck series.

I have a guy I work with that has a copy he will sell for $50, which is half of what it costs at Ebay if anyone is interested.