Nascar Strategy Guide -Review

Well, I got it last weekend at a local Walden Software store....pretty much read through it and since my T1's brake pedal has become history I seem to have a lot of time on my hands so here goes. I Got the Strategy Guide for $17.99. It's about 235 pages and comes with a CD that has some carsets, setups, and utilities on it. The book starts out with the usual introduction then jumps into the garage section. The author goes through all areas of setup from the chasis on up. This area of the guide reminds me of the NCARROW setup guide. If you've read it you'll probably know everything that is said in the book. The next few sections of the guide go over the various ways to drive, ie- how to enter corners, exit, pass cars, survive wrecks, get in and out of the pits, when to pit, etc. There is a lot of information here, but once again if you have been playing this thing for as long as most of us have, then there really isn't anything earth-shattering here. There latter half of the book deals with how the computer cars operate, how to run more than one season, how to win a championship season, how to paint your cars, etc. There were a few tidbits of gold here and I found some things out about the game I hadn't known about. The best part of the book was the tracks section. It goes over all the tracks in the game, telling the best lines and when the best pit times are for the length of race you run. There is also a graphic for each track that shows the speeds one should be at on each part of the track to attain a certain speed on the track. All the tracks are covered including the track pack. Now on to the reason I bought the book.... The CD. I was a little dissapointed in this respect. 99% of the stuff on the CD is the same stuff that has been on the various online services since the game came out. There are about 10 utilities such as driver editors, lap replay editors, utilities to let you drive any track at night, etc. There are also a group of car sets, going from some work from the verrrry talented Dave Upson, to some NFL car sets and street car pcx's. The last bit of stuff on the CD is the car setups.....the meat of the thing. There are quite a few setups here, about 3 per track from the author and the JCNCAR setups and GSETUPS. The latter 2 contain qualifying and race setups for all the tracks. The content on the CD isn't bad, it's just, well I guess I just wanted a little more.... Well finally my opinion on the book (for what it's worth...) I liked it, I read anything I can get my hands on and I must say I enjoyed reading this book. I don't know if the person who has played this game every week since it's release will find to much new in it, but the person who has just bought the game and is a little overwhelmed will find it invaluable to setting up and driving in the sim. I just wish I had it a year ago. Well I've ran my mouth long enough and besides I've got to go wait by the post office box for that T1 spring. Hope this helped someone -C ya -- "It's Always Darkest before it goes totally Black"

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> Well, I got it last weekend at a local Walden Software store....pretty >much read through it and since my T1's brake pedal has become history >I seem to have a lot of time on my hands so here goes. > I Got the Strategy Guide for $17.99. It's about 235 pages and comes >with a CD that has some carsets, setups, and utilities on it. The > Now on to the reason I bought the book.... The CD. I was a little >dissapointed in this respect. 99% of the stuff on the CD is the same >stuff that has been on the various online services since the game came >out. There are about 10 utilities such as driver editors, lap replay >editors, utilities to let you drive any track at night, etc. There >are also a group of car sets, going from some work from the verrrry >talented Dave Upson, to some NFL car sets and street car pcx's.

NFL carsets? Like as in all the teams?? Go #6 Mark Martin and #16 Ted Musgrave - Jack Roush Racing!! NASCAR Racing!! http://innet.com/~sean/nascar/nascar.html <--NASCAR Racing Sim page

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>><snip> >>are also a group of car sets, going from some work from the verrrry >>talented Dave Upson, to some NFL car sets and street car pcx's. >NFL carsets? Like as in all the teams?? >Go #6 Mark Martin and #16 Ted Musgrave - Jack Roush Racing!! >NASCAR Racing!! >http://innet.com/~sean/nascar/nascar.html <--NASCAR Racing Sim page

Sorry, but I know as much about the NFL as I do about Nuclear physics.... nothing.... but if you want to check it out I'm pretty sure that you can find the car set somewhere on the net, I've seen articles in this newsgroup time after time about it. The name of the file on the CD is NFLCars. Hope that helps..... -- "It's Always Darkest before it goes totally Black"

I am in desparate need of this book, any chance of posting the ISBN please ?

>I am in desparate need of this book, any chance of posting the ISBN >please ? Sure, it's ISBN 0-7821-1827-5, published by Sybex, written by Lee Buchanan. later.. -- "It's Always Darkest before it goes totally Black"

What is an ISBN? --D. Turcotte