Well, Europe was never too much
interested in oval racing, but still there are some interesting
race-tracks. Here is small table what is available and
downloable. Also
here you can find some fictional oval tracks, which are perfect
for
driving.
All tracks are adjusted according to their authors.
Name
|
Location |
Type |
Length |
Download
link |
Eurospeedway Lausitz |
Klettwitz, Germany |
Tri-oval with RP* (real) |
2 mi |
tracks v. 1.0 (cca 57 MB) |
Rockingham ** |
Corby, UK |
Quad-oval (real) |
1.5 mi |
Venray Infield
|
Venray, Holland |
Small oval (real) |
0.325 mi |
AVUS |
Berlin, Germany |
Oval (now defunct) |
5.19 mi |
Hawgabahn Super Speedway |
Munich, Germany |
Oval (fictional) |
7.08 mi |
Verlandring Superspeedway |
Villacoublay, France |
Oval, RP and normal (fictional) |
2.93 mi |
Venray ***
|
Venray, Hollan
|
Oval (real) screenshots
|
0.6 mi
|
cca
3,6 MB
|
Warneton ****
|
Warneton, Belgium |
Oval (real) screenshots
|
1/3 mi
|
cca 9 MB
|
Warneton Vintage Circuit
*****
|
Warneton, Belgium
|
Oval (fictional vintage)
scrshts
|
1/3 mi
|
cca 16 MB
|
Mallory Park Oval
|
Leicestershire, UK
|
Oval (real) screenshots
|
1 mi
|
cca
16 MB
|
Lydden Hill
|
Kent, UK
|
Road course (real) screenshts
|
1.1 mi
|
cca 4.8 MB
|
* RP = restrictor plates
** NOT "The Rock" located in
North Carolina!
*** track based on Altoona Raceway v 1.0 by
http://nascarcreations.tripod.com
**** track based on Huntsville v2 by Wayne (BOWTIE) Anderson
&
Murd0ck42, steve*b, Wrangler3, ajshoe, Gunslinger
***** track based on Coverleaf by WindyCity Racing
And - of course Europe is full of nice road-courses, which are
very
exciting with these ELMS cars.
For links of the tracks (not only europeans) visit
http://www.nr2k3tracks.com/
What can I recommend to you? For sure you should try some nice
flowing circuits, like Old Spa, Daytona Road Course, Riverside,
Texas
World, Le Mans, Kyalami, Watkins Glen, Laguna Seca, Lime Rock
Park,
Mosport, Road America, St. Petersburgh
track.ini updates
Here you can find files, which should go into each track
directory.
These files are fixing the AI behaviour and are adjusted for
using with
100% difficulty.
Name
|
Location |
Remark
|
Download
|
Hungaroring
|
Mogyorod, Hungary screenshots
|
graphics and track.ini update
|
cca
8.3 MB
|
Eurospeedway Lausitz
|
Klettwitz, Germany
|
track.ini update
|
cca 0.05 MB
|
Oestereichring
|
Zeltweg, Austria
|
track.ini update
|
Installation
Installation is easy ->
1 Unpack downloaded files (using WinRar, console Rar, or Total
Commander, Krusader or whatever you are using)
2 Copy the folder with the track (e.g. Venray) into
<your_path_to_NascarRacing2003_installation
folder>\tracks
(example: c:\papyrus\Nascar Racing 2003
season\tracks\Venray)
For any troubles or broken links please contact my at:
fela.nascarfan[at]gmail.com
(of course, [at] stays for @ :) )