NASCAR Road Racing

NASCAR Road Racing
Also known as: NASCAR Road Racing 2000 (EU, alternate box title) Based on: Andretti Racing Developer: FarSight Studios Publishers: EA Sports (US), Dice Multi Media Europe BV (EU) Platform: Windows Released in US: May 1999 Released in EU: 1999 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

NASCAR Road Racing is a budget reskin of the stock car portion of Andretti Racing that can't decide if it wants to be based on the 1998 or 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season.

Also, despite its marketing and title, there is an oval track in the game, although it is loosely based on the Rio oval track with road course-style elevation changes instead of banked turns.

Unused Drivers

DAVEY.BMP and CITGO.BMP in the TEXTURES folder are Davey Allison (a recurring NASCAR legend appearing in EA Sports' 1998/1999 NASCAR games) and Michael Waltrip's 1998 Wood Brothers cars, respectively. No legend drivers appear in the game, while Waltrip uses Philips.bmp instead, reflecting his move from Wood Brothers Racing to Mattei Motorsports in 1999 (although he actually uses Geoff Bodine's 1998 car, since it appears as a Ford while Mattei switched to Chevrolet for 1999).

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  Davey Allison (DAVEY.BMP)

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  Michael Waltrip '98 (CITGO.BMP)

Andretti Racing Leftovers

To do: Which executable strings are used in this game?

A number of leftover data from Andretti Racing, including parts of data of tracks not featured in NASCAR Road Racing, can also be found throughout the Data folder, except for data pertaining to open-wheel mode. These (including the Indy car mode strings) can also be found throughout the game's executable, as well as references to multiplayer mode that was in Andretti Racing, although all mentions to that game has now been updated to mention this game instead. Also, it is worth noting that saving-related strings are actually used in NASCAR Road Racing, as it does support loading and saving of certain data files.

Starting at 0xC44D0:

CONNECTION  LOST.  Closing session. This may take a minute...
CONNECTION  LOST.  Client User Retired.
Closing Session...
File name must be 8 characters or less
Invalid drive
File does not exist
No space available to save file
File exists, overwrite?
No more exhibition standings can be saved
Instant Replay (*.RPY)
*.rpy
Sorry this is not a valid file
Saved Games (*.SAV)
*.sav
Career Records (*.RCM)
*.rcm
Saved Games (*.SAV)
*.sav
Career Records (*.RCM)
*.rcm
Controller files (*.CTL)
*.ctl
NOT READY
READY
Player Status
WAITING    FOR    OTHER    PLAYERS
COUNTDOWN   TO   RACE
No space to save additional player records. Click clear records to make space.
Number of laps must be less than 24
You must enter a valid phone number
Your name has been changed to:
Game cancelled by other player
You must enter a valid name
Number of laps must be greater than 0
Connection failed try again
Click refresh to see if the game is still available and try again
Game cancelled by master 
 has been kicked out by the master 
 has been re-added by the master
Player 
Positions must be entered in sequential order starting at 1 when computer cars are off
Number of players must be greater than 1
You must enter a different number for each position
You must enter a valid number for each position
There are currently no games going
All system timers in use. Cannot rotate the image
The connection failed, exit the game, verify your connection and retry
This connection type is currently not available 
says: 
Waiting for connection ...
All computers must be connected to the internet
All computers must be connected to an IPX-compatible network
Two computers each with their own modem and phone line
Two computers directly connected together using NULL modem cable
Laps
Lap
You must have a DirectX 5.0 compatible sound card to play
You must have NASCAR Road Racing in your CD-ROM to continue
Sound Card must be DirectX 5.0 compatible
Cannot run game off CD-ROM
Calibration Error! Please calibrate before entering game
Please close all programs before running NASCAR Road Racing
Would you like to save your career before exiting?
to exit race
Right Click/PAGE DOWN
Not enough memory to run game
Joystick unplugged!
Do you really want to quit?
(Left/Right to change laps - ENTER to continue)
(Left/Right to select team - ENTER to continue)
NO DISK SPACE!
FINISH TIME
laps
DNF
No Records To Display
TIME
PLCD
QUAL
Starts:
Finishes:
Podium Finishes:
Wins:
Championships:
Seasons:
No Records Found
WINS-LOSSES
TOTAL
STOCK
INDY
You Did Not Finish

Starting at 0xC52AC (track names):

Australia
Thunderdome
Toronto
Vancouver
Meibashi
Bridgeport
Phalanx
Oasis
Binghampton
Glacier Fields
Oceanside
Longhorn
Grand Rapids
Cincinnati
Kings Beach
Vallejo
australi
thunderd
toronto
vancouvr
meibashi
bridgept
phalanx
oasis
binghamp
glacier
oceansid
longhorn
grandrpd
cincinna
kingsbch
vallejo

Starting at 0xC54D0 (opponent names):

ELIZABETH SULLIVAN
MARK KAMIMURA
MAC SULLIVAN
JOYCE KAMIMURA
CHRISTOPHER CHAO
WILL BECKMAN
CORI LARSEN
PAUL CHANG
MARK KWONG
KEITH AU
FRANK PAO
TAYLOR LARSEN
WILL BUNNETT
RICHARD LUI
JORDAN LARSEN
SHAWN JACOBY
RANDY BEVERLY
MATT MCKNIGHT
KENNY ROGERS
RICH ROGERS
HAPPY KELLER
PAM SEAWELL
M GARDINER
MIKE WILLIAMS
ROBERT JONES
BRIAN REED
BRIAN JACKSON
T FITZGERALD
MICHAEL CHAO
AION CHUI
BILL BOYER
JAY DAVIS
MARK FONG
JOHN CHUI
KEN CHAO
SERGIO LOBATO
JIM LARSEN

Another example is IJUMBO.BMP, a small graphic for an Indy car that was featured in Andretti Racing found within the driver texture graphics, but not used here. Curiously, its stock car counterpart, SJUMBO.PNG, is not in this game's files.

1998 or 1999 Season Game?

As mentioned above, the game does not appear to be able to decide whether it wants to be based on the 1998 or 1999 Winston Cup Series season. Evidence for this can be found throughout the files and the game (any driver that were not mentioned here use their 1999 season elements, unless otherwise mentioned):

• Mark Martin's car in the title screen and menus has the NASCAR 50th Anniversary contingency logo on the A-pillar that was used only in 1998. However, this could be because by the time the game was released in May 1999, none of the two road course races in the NASCAR Cup Series calendar had yet to be run.
• Darrell Waltrip's car is the Tim Flock Special car (as featured in NASCAR 99 and NASCAR Revolution, but without the NASCAR 50th Anniversary logo on the hood, presumably to hide the season confusion) he ran in 1998 after Speedblock infamously left his sponsorship dry and the death of Tim Flock that season. The name of his texture file, DWFLOCK.BMP, supports this, but his team is listed as Travis-Carter Motorsports, his 1999 team.
• Ward Burton's Caterpillar-sponsored car is named MBNA.BMP and Ernie Irvan's M&M's car is named SKITTLES.BMP. Both refer to their 1998 sponsors, although Burton's readme in the credits refer to his 1999 sponsors (and Irvan's credit is missing for some reason there).
• Dick Trickle appears as-is from his 1998 season appearance; Trickle became a journeyman driver for 1999, while Donlavey Racing (Trickle's 1998 team) had the infamous Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce sponsorship circus in 1999 and thus neither appeared in EA Sports' NASCAR games for the 1999 season.
• Michael Waltrip's car that he does actually use, Philips.bmp, is actually Geoff Bodine's 1998 car, since it was run as a Ford and had MCI as the rear decklid sponsor. Michael Waltrip's 1999 car was a Chevrolet and had Philips HalogenA on the rear decklid.

Reflecting all above, some of the licensing credits in the readme refer to their 1998 season entries. The following are the affected drivers:

Driver	Readme Credit
Dick Trickle	"Dick Trickle" name and likeness, and likeness of Junie Donlavey Racing Team used under license.
Darrell Waltrip	"Darrell Waltrip" name and likeness, "Darrell Waltrip Motorsports" and the likeness of the Darrell Waltrip racing car #17 are used under license.
Michael Waltrip	"Michael Waltrip" name and likeness and likeness of "Wood Brothers Racing" are used under license.