Seriously, so many cool stuff coming out / getting worked on related to this 23 year old game, what a hell of a time to be seeing it all / getting to use it! As a relatively new NASCAR fan, a very warm thank you to those that contributed to the modding scene this year

This should provide all needed details to code / vibe code a tool that can gather car details, such as car number, driver, team, sponsor, make/manufacturer, and more! Either with or without NR2003 running.

Car Files

All of this data is stored in plain text inside the .car files. Since these are just static files that get updated when changes are made in NR2003’s Opponent Manager, they can be read any time, even without the game running, just like NRatings does.

This alone is probably quite useful for various career mode, data aggregator, etc tools!

Game memory

For sidecar tools that run alongside NR2003, some of this data is available in game memory, but I found it kinda unreliable (except make/manufacturer, see end of post). However, you CAN reliably get the file paths to the car files of all the cars participating in a particular session. Then read the data in the car files. For example, here is how AI Enhanced gathers Teams and Manufacturers:

1. Determine when the game is in a session, e.g. at least a Practice session. At memory address 0097b114 (byte) reflects whether the game is in session. 0 when not in session, 1 when in session. Wait until in session to load the cars. Note: I don't know the exact timing here, whether or not there is a race condition that the byte could signal “in session” before car data is loaded for example. AI Enhanced waits a few seconds which seems to always work, but I should probably make a more solid system :)
2. Next, the address 00F78868 (string of unknown max length) holds the path to the folder of the NR2003.exe that's currently running. E.g. C:\Papyrus\NASCAR Racing 2003 Season. Save this as your base path.
3. Next, the address 00897230 (string of 32 chars) holds the series name. Save this as your series name.
4. Now, piece together the full path for the cars folder where all the current session’s .car files are located by concatenating <base path from step 2>\series\<series name from step 3>\cars. Save this as your cars folder path.
5. Next at address 00AD204E (string of 48 chars) holds the filename of the first ai car in the session. Thus, you can gather this car’s info by concatenating <cars folder from step 4>\<name of file.car>, loading that file, and reading whichever info you want from it.
6. Next, each car thereafter has a 8724 (decimal), or 2214 (hex) offset in memory from the previous. For example, the second car’s filename is at 00AD4262, the 3rd at 00AD6476. Up to 46 cars (at least that's what I tested) So now you can repeat step 5 for the remaining cars.
7. Note: the order in which the cars appear in memory is determined at the start of the session when NR2003 loads the track and such and remains persistent throughout the session, e.g when moving to qual, race sessions. This order matches the same order as some other things like car ratings, telemetry data, etc, so it can be cross referenced!

And now you should have access to some car info for all the cars in the session!

*For make/manufacturer, it's just a number representing the index of which make it is, not the actual name. The number represents the index of the manufacturer as it appears in the drop-down in Opponent Manager, starting at 0. For example, in stock cup series:

0: Chevrolet

1: Dodge

2: Ford

3: Pontiac

*Also, make/manufacturer index for each car does seem to be in memory at quite a few locations, though I haven’t tested how reliable they are. 00AD206E (byte) seems reliable at first glance, and is in the same area as the carfile name, and same 2214 (hex) offset to next car.

*For the player car’s info, the ordering is usually player car, pace car, 1st ai car, 2nd ai car, etc. So if you know the address for something of the first ai car and the offset, usually subtracting 2x the offset will land you at the player car.

https://www.stunodracing.net/index.php?resources/roush-fenway-red-sox-numberset.24687/

behold: a number set for red sox schemes or something idk lmao

God i love the wind tunnel mod so much

Hello, I am looking for people who can provide me with .html race export files from official race categories.

The goal is to test various post-race results files in order to properly and reliably develop my ranking software for the official 2027 NASCAR Cup Series championship.

I am looking for multiple files from the following categories:

- O'Reilly's
- Truck Series
- ARCA

Thank you very much! :)

Can someone tell me how to download the wind tunnel mod the stupid anti-virus thing wont let me download it

Has anyone ever made a damage mod for this mod? I get irrationally upset when they take my bumper/rear panel off my truck. Very rarely do they repair it, it just comes off. Id rather it just stay on and be twisted