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NASCAR Race Car Simulators

You are a NASCAR fan, right?  And of course, you surely have tried NASCAR video gaming at home or at arcades.  A true NASCAR fan gets his chance to know what if feels like to race with the pros or with just with your pro-wannabe friends by playing a NASCAR video game.  I’m sure you get the kicks out of speeding away passing the other race cars towards your pursuit to the finish line.  Nothing beats this experience, or so you think.  Have you heard about NASCAR Race Car Simulators?

With NASCAR race car simulators, your original video gaming experience might have just fallen short of calling it close to the real-world racing.  Imagine this – you rev up your engine, and you feel your powerful V8 engine’s roaring sound, you slice through speedily between the other race cars and feel the bump with the other car along the way – trying to stabilize your run in the process, then you see the rough race track ahead & feel the friction of the tires against the track, you hear voices of the pit crew, and you are constantly challenged for position towards the finish line – these and more authentic replication thru NASCAR race car simulators.

These NASCAR race car simulators offered by SMS or Silicon Motor Speedway provides NASCAR fanatics with the opportunity to experience NASCAR racing simulation at its finest.

With NASCAR racecar simulators you will really feel the engine, the bumps, and the crash.  You feel the adrenaline rush with each turn and with other racecars aggressively competing for position.  You feel the car & track noises apparent to a real NASCAR race, and of course, you definitely will feel the pressure not just to win the race, but also to at least survive it, as your senses are made to believe that you are on a real NASCAR racetrack.

The NASCAR race car simulators by SMS come with 6 licensed race tracks, a NEXTEL Cup series licensed identity, force-feedback steering, working gauges, real-time interactive racing with as many as 32 cars, 400 watt stereo, seat belts, and more.  The graphics are very good with very neat car handling control.  One will feel the skids and wall scrapes, and commentators on the background.

SMS offers these NASCAR racecar simulators knowing one will surely feel the rush of racing.  The sight, sound and movement simulated all accounts for the unique level of experience where one could have only dreamed.  NASCAR fanatics, who are racecar driver hopefuls, will finally have a league of their own.

NASCAR Modified Cars

Early race drivers were conventional thrill seekers. Some accounts say that they are bootleggers and gangsters. And they are the forerunners of race drivers. That’s how racing evolved. At that time, vehicles were rich men’s possession with most owners being professionals and had more things going on than racing. The next majority were those individuals who engaged in illegal business, particularly moonshining when most of America was under the Alcohol Prohibition Act that allowed them enough wealth to purchase the fastest, the most showy and expensive cars,. With plenty of time and lots of money, the concept of stock car racing was born.

That’s how NASCAR uses ‘stock’ cars for racing, as opposed to specially built cars of other racing tournaments like Formula One and NHRA. When the founder William France Sr. formed NASCAR, he had exclusive intentions to use ‘stock’ models, cars that are normally available to the general public without too much alteration. Such regulation would make certain that race cars aren’t modified to such degree that one type of car would have a huge advantage over the next one. And the regulation is at large what made NASCAR the most successful race tournament in history.

While in the past, entry level drivers have stock cars that are most often used on daily obligations as well on racetracks, NASCAR entry cars of more recent times are far from the cars that emerge from production. The only semblance for stock material would be perhaps the body template, yet that is speaking generously. The chassis, running gear, tires and even the carburetor (as most late car models now use fuel injection) of a NASCAR modified car  is a far cry from what we should call stock car.

Then, are NASCAR modified cars largely different from the factory cars? That depends on how you see it.  Here are some examples of NASCAR modified cars:

The #61 Ford Pinto driven by Ritchie Evans on 1978
Check: www.racer-net.com/nscrmo05.htm

This aged model is available for purchase at $20,000. Though a ford model such as this is already forgotten, renewed interest has lately sparked, making the Ford Pinto a highly sought amateur level vintage racecar.

The 1955 Chrysler c300r Replica
Check: http://oval.race-cars.com/carsales/other/1143735474/1143735474ss.htm

The Chrysler c300r Letter Series was a serious NASCAR contender during its time in 1955, having a remarkable engine far superior than most muscle car during its era. But despite its performance, this Chrysler model failed selling a respectable quantity.