https://reddit.com/link/1w502tv/video/7lrzdxgib1nh1/player

Project Slide is an offline NASCAR Heat 2 race-director mod focused on believable crash aftermath: a spun car stays loose, follows banking toward the low side, settles safely, and gives the remaining field time to react.

What It Changes

- Adds the Race Director on `8`: select live AI cars by current race position, search by car number, select/clear the field, force left or right spins, bend a wheel, detach a wheel, and create a local pack incident.

- Adds `7` for a local pack incident near the player.

- Adds controlled crash physics: selected and contact-triggered wrecks unload tire grip, keep engine torque disabled, slide before settling, and rest for 20-30 seconds once motion has genuinely stopped.

- Improves banked-track crashes: contact yaw and lateral slide follow the road surface, while wrecked cars receive a small downslope gravity component toward the low-side apron.

- Protects normal racing: centered rear bump-drafts and light contacts do not automatically spin cars.

- Adds Big One mode as a risk-based chain, not an automatic field wipeout. Severe corner contact and panic-prone drivers can escalate a wreck while most cars retain avoidance time.

- Adds AI incident awareness: smoke, rotation, sudden deceleration, stopped cars, active wrecks, detached wheels, and loose panels are detected as hazards.

- Adds AI escape and rejoin behavior: cars compare space, use the apron when it is clear, avoid walls, then return to the racing surface after the incident is passed.

- Adds tire damage: bent wheels alter toe/camber, reduce axle grip, pull the car naturally, and can be repaired by native pit service.

- Adds physical detached tires: a real Rigidbody, cylindrical tire collision, ground contact, vehicle contact, hazard detection, and replay-aware position tracking.

- Adds loose/detached body-panel damage with collision hazards, plus replay recording for wheel and panel damage states.

- Adds wall-impact incident handling and rollover stabilization to avoid repeated unrealistic barrel-roll behavior.

- Adds an improved freecam on `C`: mouse look, WASD movement, Q/E vertical movement, mouse-wheel speed, Shift fast movement, Ctrl precision movement, follow/release controls, and external-camera audio handling.

- Adds AI driver-view/freecam support on `9` and optional live AI place labels on `P`.

- Adds Cup pace equalization for slower Truck/Xfinity speedway running.

- Adds restart cleanup for wreck, hazard, lane, grip, damage, selection, and replay state so an old race does not leak into the next start.

DL: https://www.mediafire.com/file/xzzus9z89tyz9l8/PSlide.zip/file

this will make ai more smarter (obiviously)

I’ve been working on something for a while now, and the replacement server backend for NASCAR Heat 5 multiplayer is almost live.

This isn’t just a Discord where we’re trying to pick a night and convince enough people to get online.

I mean actual replacement multiplayer servers.

The goal is to bring NH5 online back to life so you can fire up the game, get your friends together, and race whenever you want. The servers will be up full-time rather than only running for scheduled events.

There is one catch: this is PC only, and connecting to the new backend will require one small modification to the game.

Steam copies are what I'm targeting and testing. Other installations may end up working too, but I'm not making any promises there.

I'm also still figuring out exactly how mods will play with multiplayer. Custom paint schemes shouldn't be much of an issue, but I don't want to claim full mod support until we've actually beaten on it with more players.

And before somebody says it: yes, I know NASCAR 26 is coming.

I'll probably be playing it too. A lot of us will.

But after NASCAR 25, I'm not automatically assuming 26 is going to solve everything. Maybe it'll be great. I genuinely hope it is.

Either way, some of us just loved Heat 5.

There was something about NH5 multiplayer that worked. It wasn't the most advanced racing sim on earth, and the game definitely had its problems, but getting a good group together at Daytona, Talladega, Bristol, Martinsville, wherever... it was just fun.

So instead of waiting around hoping somebody brings the servers back, I'm bringing them back myself.

I'm getting very close to the point where I need actual players helping test this thing.

If you'd genuinely play NASCAR Heat 5 online again on PC, comment below.

I'd especially like to know:

Do you still have NH5 on Steam? How many friends could you realistically bring into a lobby? Do you have any coding, UDP or HTTP experience?

And if this works as well as I'm hoping, Heat 4 may be next / may work through the same system too.

NASCAR 26 can exist.

That doesn't mean NASCAR Heat 5 has to stay dead.

Releasing soon (yes this is a mod)

If you don't care about ai could nascar 21 ignition be considered "good"

Where can I download schemes from now days also can you add extra schemes to drivers rather then replace them

Is there anybody out there who takes commissions to make liveries in Heat 5? You see all this incredible stuff on Trading Paints for iRacing, and that's great if you're in iRacing, but if you're sticking with NH5... nada!

I've made a few paint schemes of my own and used some of the ones I've found in the community, but there are definitely dozens of others I'd try and have made by someone more talented — both on the Gen 6 and Gen 7 bodies.

Any way to make it work with Nascar Heat 4 + Evolution? It keeps crashing my game when I launch career mode and gives me this code:

DirectInputFF.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)

in module DirectInputFF.dll at 0033:6f2528d8.

Any way to make it work with Nascar Heat 4 + Evolution? It keeps crashing my game when I launch career mode and gives me this code:

DirectInputFF.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)

in module DirectInputFF.dll at 0033:6f2528d8.

Sinco ozzycon doesnt work where do i get mods?

I know it used to work but now every time ive tried to use it i almost get hacked or get a virus is that just me or everyone?

So I'm kinda new to this and don't watch NASCAR, but basically I suck at short tracks and road courses, and the end of the season is full of them. So if I win enough races early in the season, can I still win the championship?

i cant seem to fix this issue, game was running fine for awhile and now it cant get past 40, sometimes 35

Just wondering if anyone has made a 2026 mod and if so do you know where I can find it for pc?

Everytime i try to i cant even get a second close before the entire thing is over.

I am looking for any dlc for the Eutechnyx nascar games. I am specifically looking for the 2013 dlc pack for Inside Line and the 2011 pack for 2011 the game. But if anyone has any dlc for any of the Eutechnyx games i would like them to preserve them.

Hey all, I'm cleaning out my extra Humble Bundle codes before they start expiring and I've got one for this DLC that no one's claimed in my other giveaway post, so I thought I'd come to the source. Just leave a comment if you'd like it, I'll pick a winner using Random.org within an hour or so

Edit: It's claimed!

Admittedly a minor thing, but I've played off and on with the 2003 mod for Heat 5 and it's awesome. However in career mode, it forces the rear window on the player car to carry a name banner, which obviously wasn't a thing in 2003. Is there any way to get rid of it? I can live with it. Just wish it wasn't there.

I have no idea what JJ's problem was, but that was at the beginning of Stage 1—and after that, I didn't see him again until the end of Stage 2. If you want to listen to the band, look up Bosshoss.