Players can compete in the Craftsman Truck, National, or Nextel Cup series, and a number of different game modes are supported, from pick-up-and-play single races to multi-season careers. In addition to the highly refined physics engine designed to produce an authentic driving 'feel,' the game re-creates all the most recognizable details of the sport, including 60 drivers and their teams, a series of 28 tracks, and scoring based on the 2005 NASCAR Nextel point system rules. served as testers during the development process. Unlike the publisher's annual console NASCAR: Chase for the Cup games, realism is the focus of this new PC title, and stars of the sport Ryan Newman and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. The freshly titled NASCAR SimRacing represents a new, more simulation-oriented use of EA Sports' exclusive NASCAR license for home computer gamers.
