TRACK FILES

EDITING TRACK FILES

A lot of the information on this page has been pulled from this in-depth breakdown by The Racing Line. Credit where credit is due. It's a wall of text from 1997, so this page will only have some of the crucial things you'll need, but there are other options you can read about in the breakdown.

First off, each track has a .txt file in its folder named the same as the folder itself. Atlanta will have a .txt file in its folder named Atlanta.txt. That's what you want to open. TRUCKS: Look for BLAPT and RELST lines.

CREATING YOUR OWN CALENDAR

The aforementioned Racing Line breakdown has detailed instructions.

PIT ROAD SPEED LIMIT

Change the speed limit on pit road if you want.

> PITSP 55

ADJUSTING A.I. PIT WINDOWS

Without wear mutlipliers in the game, it's still possible to have some short races with pit stops. The final two numbers on this line are the laps when the A.I. starts their pit window and when it ends, with maybe flexibility of a lap or two on each end. In this example, the A.I. will start pitting on lap 23 and finish their rounds by lap 26. This doesn't affect your own tire wear and fuel use. It's just a number that tells the A.I. when to pit, and you just have to treat it as a mandatory pit stop for yourself.

> SPDWY 0 23 26

PACE SPEED

55 miles per hour on the pace laps around Talladega is brutal, so you can change the speed here.

> PACEA 2 48080000 52000 -52000 0 55

QUALIFYING LAPS

The second number will dictate how many laps you can run.

> QUAL 2 2

QUALIFYING SPEEDS

If the A.I. is ridiculously fast in qualifying and you have no chance to compete with them, you can level the playing field here. This BLAP number is, roughly, what the middle-of-the-pack A.I. car will run in qualifying. If you run 30.450 in qualifying, you'll probably start middle of the field. I have noticed this number does rely on the difficulty percentage in some way. But once you try it out, you'll understand what's happening here. Change this number to 40450, and you'll win the pole by 10 seconds! My personal method is to run three qualifying laps, figure out what my average lap time is, then use that number as the BLAP in the track file. If I can improve, then I might start mid-teens or something. It's all up to you on how challenging you want it to be.

> BLAP 30450

RELS

This is a number that will adjust how fast the A.I. drives at the track. It's kind of a blind number, meaning I can't point to what it actually means, although it feels like it's a percentage of some kind. For example, if you open the Atlanta track file and change this number from 103 to 40, the A.I.'s lap times at 99% difficulty go from 30-second laps to 80-second laps. For your championship seasons where you are locked into a difficulty percentage, this line will come in handy. It will just take some experimentation based on your skill level. Judging by the drastic change seen in the 103-to-40 test, you won't have to change this number by too much.

> RELS 103

AIDMG

Adding this line to a track file lets you tell the game how frequently you want incidents, whether it's A.I. spin-outs or mechnical problems. The numbers are laps. The first number is always 0. In this example below, you can expect an incident every 10 laps.

> AIMDG 0 10

FIELD SIZE

Here is the excerpt from the actual ReadMe file that comes with the game.

FIELD SIZE (NUMBER OF OPPONENTS)

At some tracks the size of the field is a lot smaller at real races. This is due to the pit areas at the tracks in the game being larger than they are in real life. This limits the number of cars we can have.

The number of cars per track is determined by the distance needed between your car and the car in front of you. We determined the amount of space needed for you to get out of your pit stall without hitting the car in front of you or having to reverse to get out.

With the introduction of the wheelspin feature, it is possible to increase the field sizes and use the wheelspin to exit the pits. This is not the default because it takes a while for people to feel comfortable using this feature.

Below is a list showing the real field size at the various tracks, the default NASCAR Racing 2 field size and the appropriate field size if using the wheelspin feature.

If you wish to change the size of the field at a track, use a text editor and edit the track.txt file located in that track directory. Change both numbers in the CARS line to the number you wish.

Example: To change Atlanta from 36 drivers to 39, edit Atlanta.txt.

change CARS 36 36

to CARS 39 39

You must change the number of pit stalls allowed at the track. This is done by changing the 8th number on the PIT line in the track.txt file. This

number MUST BE THE SAME NUMBER AS THE CARS NUMBER. If it is not, bad evil things will happen.

Example: Also change the number of pit stalls by changing the 36 to a 39.

PIT 90077 43657519 5454190 44170392 3885105 315803 20550039 36 44224390 ...

||

39

If the track has two pit lanes, make sure that the 8th number on the PIT line and the 8th number on the PIT2 line add up to the number on the CARS line. So, at Bristol with 36 cars, the 8th number on the PIT line would be 18, and the 8th number on the PIT2 line would be 18. In the case of an odd number of cars, the "extra" car should be included on the front pits, so the 8th number on PIT will be higher than on PIT2.

NOTE: You are limited to a max of 39 drivers (including yourself) in a race.

FIELD SIZES BY TRACK

The first number is the real life field size. The second number is the default NASCAR Racing 2 size. The third number is the max field size you can use in the game if you are comfortable using the wheelspin feature to exit your pit stall.

Atlanta

42 35 39

Bristol

36 31 36

Charlotte

42 31 39

Darlington

42 39 39

Dover

42 28 39

Loudon

41 33 39

Martinsville

36 25 36

Michigan

42 39 39

N.Wilkesboro

36 36 36

Phoenix

44 30 39

Pocono

42 39 39

Richmond

38 25 38

Rockingham

40 39 39

Sears Point

43 21 39

Talladega

42 36 39

Watkins Glen

40 27 39

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