Fans of American stock car racing will soon have a new option on consoles: Forza 6 will include them in an upcoming expansion. As we reported last week, the upcoming pack (the second of its kind, after the Porsche Expansion Pack) should have 24 cars from the current 2016 season, alongside Homestead-Miami Speedway, as well as new HUD features for drafting and car spotting.
While Turn 10 has not officially commented on the pack yet, the release is all but confirmed after two recent spottings. First, official Forza forum user SnickLeFritz813 captured the download card on the sales floor of a Best Buy in Culver City, CA. The card confirms the car count and new track addition, though there’s still no solid word on whether the vehicles will be pulled solely from the top-shelf Sprint Cup class or not.
The second leak comes from Turn 10 themselves. Whether intentional or not, an in-game prompt for users to try a new NASCAR-themed Rivals challenge popped up in some players’ inboxes earlier today. That’s a press release away from official, then!
All signs point to a release this coming Tuesday, May 17. GTPlanet will be ready and waiting for the official release, in what’s quickly turning into quite a busy week…
Hat tips to both ZDUPH and The Stig Farmer for uncovering the leaks!
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Just one more day until it hits the xbox store. Yay!
Fantastic news; anything which expands Forza 6 is good for me
Good for Forza. I use to think NASCAR was just redneck motor sport; endurance races in GT changed my opinion.
At least GT debuted the current gen hehe, besides, I think GT still has the license, so lets see when gt7 comes out :)
By the time GT7 releases Forza could be on its 4th or 5th complete game of this console generation..hehe.:)
Well if GTS releases this year, it will be at least another 3 years for GT7, so 2019 at best, probably released after PS5 lol.
Someone always has to turn it into a vs don’t they? How about just commenting on the subject itself.
For the sake of information, no one sole company has a license for NASCAR. If GT did, that would be the only NASCAR setting we would see in a video game. Luckily, they don’t, that’s why we have them in GT and their own standalone NASCAR series that was produced by Eutechnyx, and now DMI.
These guys really do a proper job… Not much of a Nascar fan but i appreciate the whole FM operation and envy the cars they bring in to the game. Which is good, since it raises the bar and makes the competition work harder. My setup is just waiting for the next GT, until then i’ll get used to increasingly drool over that lineup.
Knowing the livery community in Forza, for nearly 10yrs now, I was hoping that “24 car” pack would include some classics. I could dig up on their official forums of people in their “car request” board requesting aero88 cars, like Bill’s ’86 Talledega record setting Thunderbird, late ’60s manufacturer cars, like the mercury cyclone, or anything retro to go with the modern. We dont need all 8 Hendricks & Gibbs cars. That’s what liveries and the painting in-game is for.
I am not to bother about Forza getting this like I was before. I just hope it doesn’t become NASCADE (NASCAR ARCADE)
That rivals picture is triggering me so hard.
The text “NASCAR-only event” leads me to believe that the only cars included will be Sprint Cup cars, as when most people talk about “NASCAR racing,” they usually mean Sprint Cup.
Whatever happens, it’s exciting to see NASCAR finally getting rid of that stupid exclusive license again. Who knows – maybe we’ll see another NR2003-style hardcore sim? That would be cool, being a NASCAR-licensed driver myself and all. ;)
They’ve actually been done with Exclusive licenses since 2009, Though they’ve had a series of crappy licensed games from Activision since then as well.
One already exists, it’s called iRacing :-)
That doesn’t use official NASCAR paint jobs though. The cars, sure, but not the liveries. And besides, it’s not 100% dedicated to NASCAR as NR2003 was.
I wonder if this is a response to the joint venture between FIA and GT Sport.
I know that Forza 6 had Formula E events, but that relationship may have ended with the marriage of FIA and GT, and Microsoft/Turn 10 wanted to secure a marquee series for their brand.
The FE deal was announced after the GT/PD deal though. Besides, most series have their own commercial deals that the FIA has nothing to do with. Hence why F1 has exclusive license deals while WRC does not.
A fat no
Forza already has a marquee series with the V8 Supercars license, but I guess they would want something that caters for more than just touring car fans.