Learning Center + Quick Reference

• How much does NR2003 cost? Where do I buy/find it?
• How do I install NR2003 on a modern computer? Why is my game not working?
• What things can/can't I do in NR2003?
• What is a mod? How do I install them? How about custom tracks?
• *How do I add custom cars? Why do the cars I added appear broken or not show up at all?
• *How do I create a custom roster? Why are the ai in my roster so unrealistic?
• *How do I setup my keyboard/controller to be able to race?
• *How to setup a custom season/championship and keep track of points
• *How to manipulate qualifying results

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• Community Asked Questions - NR2003

For those who are fairly new or have never played NR2003, here's a list of things you can do in NR2003's mostly without needing any extra programs or mods, including but not limited to...

• Drive a car of your choosing in pretty much any way you can think of. You can race against 0 thru 42 AI cars (47 AI total by modding), race against people online, free roam tracks, drive backwards into the field and fly down pit road at 250mph at will without the game stopping you. Your car can be controlled by your choice of keyboard, game console controllers, or steering wheel if you're fancy. 
• View replays or run a live simulated race if you don't want to race (you'll still have the option to get on track at any point during a live simulated race). You have near complete control of the camera and point in time of the race you're viewing. Slow motion, rewind, fast forward and pause are all at your disposal. Save and edit replays at will. Programs such as FreeCamera and CamHack allow you to manipulate the camera in any way you can think of.
• Choose your lineup of AI cars. Full control over the roster of cars you want to race against or sim. You can even set ratings for each AI car down to how well their pit crew performs or how reliable their cars are. You can set how frequently you want the AI to pit and how difficult they are to beat or set them to adapt to your speed. 
• Full "raceday" control options. Set the race length to whatever you want, turn damage on, off or moderate, realistic weather or manually set the temperature, wind and if the skies are clear or cloudy. Set practice length or turn practice off. Open setup, fixed setup or your own custom setup. Restart the race or qualifying at will. You can even set the starting positions using the NR2003 Save Game Editor program.
• Create your own championship season schedule. Using the in-game points manager means it will follow the 2003 points format and you can't edit the points; there are external points manager programs such as Score4 that allow you to have full control over the points. 
• Painting your own cars, making your own tracks and mods are possible only outside of the game using external programs and doing so takes a bit of learning. Get comfortable with the game first but feel free to add community made files to your hearts content. 
• The "Update 12" and "Better Cautions" programs allow you to have GWCs, double file restarts, use chat commands on AI and stop racing back to the line if the yellow flag waves
• Almost anything you can think of!

Never say never! We've accomplished almost anything you can think of and this list is subject to change as the community continues to figure out how to go beyond NR's limitations. To give you an idea though, here's a list of things you currently can't do...

• Move AI cars around on track manually. The game completely simulates the AI's movement. Editing the track's configuration code (ini & LP files) will influence AI behavior but you can not make stop-motion-like adjustments to replays. Reenactment videos on youtube take many attempts and ultimately depend on how lucky the game decides the crash to turn out, they are not shot for shot reenactments. You also can't rewrite history in a replay so to say. By this I mean driving your car over a replay. If the race has already been simulated, what happened in the race happened. No going back and rerunning the last lap of a race because you weren't happy with it. 
• Influencing AI once the session has started. No telling Kyle Busch to win if you're already simulating the race or forcing a wreck with anything other than your own car. You can throw a yellow manually but anything else depends on the configurations/ratings/setup which is already set before you started the race and luck
• Moving carsets between different mods that have different models. If the carset was meant for a specific mod, the model has to be the same or a converted version of the carset has to exist. This means no placing cup cars in the truck mod and expecting it to magically fit the model. Same goes for mods made for other games. If a mod was meant for NASCAR Heat, Roblox, Assetto Corsa or anything else and hasn't been converted to NR2003, it won't magically work. Converting mods and carsets is complicated and highly frowned upon if you didn't create the original mod or set.
• Racing with more than 47 ai cars and/or mix and matching mods in the same race. Each mod can only have up to 4 hard coded body style models. This unfortunately eliminates multiclass racing. No racing a truck against an indycar unless you created the mod.
• Racing with WASD or the arrow keys on keyboard.
• Taking control of AI cars
• Have a truly live ticker. The ticker only updates as AI cross the start/finish line. You can customize tickers using programs like UIE 2013 for static tickers. Another program, GNL.tv, allows for scrolling tickers in an internet browser only. Scrolling tickers can not currently be viewed in game natively.