Screen capture off the Speed Channel of the final 10 lap shoot-out and winner’s interview of the NASCAR Sprint Cup All-Star race at Lowes Motor Speedway in Concord, NC on May 16, 2009 A total of 4 different non points segments (50, 20, 20 & 10 laps) were run in this race with Tony Stewart being the eventual winner of the one million dollar first place prize for this event. This NASCAR event was captured off the Speed Channel. It was made and is being presented for entertainment purposes only. NO profit or monetary gain is being made from this video and it should not be used for any financial gain. All names, logos, slogans & video are the sole property of the NASCAR and Speed Channel networks and each retains all rights to them. This video was captured using an Aiptek GO-HD (720p) camcorder in DV1 mode connected to a Directv receiver then edited & rendered to a 1280 x 720 High Resolution WM9 .wmv file using Camtasia Studio 6. Although this can be viewed as a HD video, it is not true HD.
NASCAR Racing 1, the first of the successful Papyrus NASCAR franchise, came out in 1994, and was pretty much the first NASCAR game released that was worth writing home about, especially compared to other gems such as Bill Elliott’s NASCAR Challenge (featured in another video), Days of Thunder, and Richard Petty’s Talladega. For starters, there was a legitimate field of cars - 38 opponents, compared to 11 in one, and who knows how much in the others. The tracks were actually resembled their real-life counterparts - such as Talladega, the track we look at here (although, notably, the track is actually way off - check out how tight the tri-oval is!). We run a few laps at Talladega, featuring the (sometimes) profane commentary of myself (I’m trying to cut down, I swear) as I run up through the field. As you will hear, I am no Ken Squier. In addition, I will also talk (inaccurately, I’m sure) about some of the issues that sim-racers faced in the days of NASCAR 1 and its immediate successors, such as the lack of a certain track in northeast Florida, and what modders did to get around that. I’m sure I missed the boat by miles on that, but hopefully I covered it somewhat accurately. I’m still hoping for an NR2003 edition of Alex Santantonio’s USA International Speedway, which was a Daytona substitute. I also apologize for the sudden (and profane) end to the clip. I realized I was at the end of the video (I did the audio after I did the video), so I had to end it. This was all …