http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkHycFocaOA
Since we first learned about the inclusion of NASCAR in Gran Turismo 5, it’s been a source of contention among fans of the GT series. Some people don’t feel that oval racing has a place in a series known for its road circuits, while others argue that NASCAR races will add an exciting new dynamic to the game. After watching the video above, it’s clear where Kazunori Yamauchi stands.
It all started when Kazunori attended his first “daytime” NASCAR race in Texas – he says he was “moved very much” by the popularity of the sport, and wants to introduce it to the rest of the world through Gran Turismo. He also specifically mentions that there will be no NASCAR cars in Gran Turismo PSP, which makes its massive list of 800 cars all the more impressive. The most interesting statement comes, however, when he’s asked directly if all of the NASCAR vehicles will be in the game. His response:
“Probably not all the cars at the beginning, I can only promise that there will be a lot.”
In other words, we can definitely expect more content and cars coming down the line as DLC (downloadable content) after Gran Turismo 5 is released (though, admittidly, that’s something which has been assumed for some time now). This also acknowledges questions about NASCAR when fans noticed that some cars in the E3 trailer were essentially the same with only different colors.
Thanks to GT Channel for another great interview Kazunori-san!
See more articles on Kazunori Yamauchi and NASCAR.
They aren’t driving in circles. Racing’s a bit faster. I’ve got a buddy getting into oval racing and it’s extremely difficult pulling a good set up and adaquet horsepower from nowhere. Oval racers WORK their way through the ranks, most of them having nothing more than a trashed car and an empty bank account to show for it.
I’m not a fan, but I have a huge amount of respect for openwheel. To drive those cars the way they do and have to avoid getting a scratch on em to run well it nuts.
And if that arguement fails i’ve got one thing to say: Nothing beats dirt late model racing.
Sean Says:
July 20th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
“Gran Turismo is the ambassador of ALL forms of motorsport. GT5 is going to blow everyone away. Everyone in the world. Surely most every preference of motorsport will be included.”
I’m a nascar fan and I don’t think it’s my job to argue nascar’s merit or downplay anybody, but I gotta agree with Sean. Gran Turismo is the true ambassador of all motorsports. It’s only right they include the most popular motorsport of North America.
And in recent memory I don’t remember any nascar guys going to open wheel/ F1. If anything most of them are coming to nascar and failing horribly.
There is only 2 drivers from open wheel that have had any amount of success. Tony Stewart and Juan Montoya who, let’s face it, hasn’t been spectacular.
To expand upon Montoya… He’s not used to the heavy stock car chasis. He’s coming around now but F1 and nascar are about as far apart in the racing spectrum as well, coke and pepsi in the soda world.
modracerm: Ambrose is probably the coolest guy out there on the cup side right now lol.
Have any of the Nascar bashers EVER driven on a real oval track in a real race? I bet we all know the answer to that and its a big NO. If racing ovals was so easy why aren’t you naysayers beating the pants off the guys who really do it. If you have then you’d know that to go faster than everyone you have to push to the absolute limits of the car and that concrete wall thats comming up on you as you exit the turn. It takes quite a bit of nerve to drive a car into a corner at 150-200 mph knowing that your less than 40 feet away from having a possible head on collision with a wall with no run off safety preventions to slow or stop you from hitting the wall.
Once or twice a month when I can afford it I run my IMCA 2003 Pro modified at a local 1/4 mile dirt short track. Its not easy at all, just like the times when i’ve road raced in the SCCA good drivers will always be up at the front of the pack. I dare you to show up at any track and head off into the pits spout off that it takes no skill to drive a car around a oval.
Villham,
Ever hear of this driver named Juan Pablo Montoya? Hmmm, he won in F1, cart/ccws, IRL…..ect Like any good driver he wins in what ever series hes racing in. Did you know that he currently races in Nascar after his career in F1? You’d think a driver of his calibre would just decimate the entire field of redneck racers down in Nascar. But he doesn’t, hhmmm why could that be? Probally because it does take alot of skill to drive a heavily regulated car faster than a field of 42 other heavily regulated cars that are made to have almost identical speed capabilites. The driver makes up alot of the winning formula in Nascar.
All be it a high banked oval to a road course “yes Nascar does race on tracks where they turn left and right”. Like many other past champion/winners in other racing series have learned from their ventures into the sport of Nascar, its not as easy as they thought and a few have admited that fact. Look at the amazing Austrailian V8 supercar past champion Marcos Ambrose, he’s racing in Nascar as well. No matter what it takes skill to be the best in any sport Nascar is no different in this aspect than any other form of motorsports.
and Gamestop in the U.S. (gamestop.com) has a pre order date of 02-02-2010, so basically 7 months, but I am willing to bet it will be released for holiday sales in December. Especially since the economy for game sales is so low this year. At least that is what i hope.
ok, first of all if you are bashing Nascar, F1, Forenza, La Mans, drag, or drift, etc. you are not a racing fan. You are a spectator. Thats it. People who like racing, like it for what it is, not what series. BTW for those compairing Nascar to F1 saying that one cant drive the other, listen up retard, Tony Stewart, Juan Pablo Montoya, Patrick Carpantiea all raced in Formula 1 before they became NASCAR drivers. Jimmie Johnson, 3 time Nextel Cup Champion, always races at the 24 hour La Mans at Daytona and usually finshes in the top 10. Dale Earnhardt raced in a corvette at the Le Mans event at Sonoma, And most of the nascar drivers got there start in dirt track races. Now a dirt race is just like drifting, you know, turn right to go left, except the cars are even lighter than your typical Honda Acura or Nissan Skyline or Fairlady Z and it is in a circle. But if you want to be really anal, if you are complaining that all Nascar is only racing in circles, thats kind of saying your stupid when actually your retarded. ALL RACES GO IN CIRCLES!!!!! except drag…ha ha i caught that. So love racing for the sake of loving the smell of burnt rubber, engine exhaust, raw horsepower, and the belief that not only must a driver finsh a race, but he/she must survive the fight of other drivers who want to be number 1.
To those bashing American motorsports: If competing in American motorsports takes no skill, then I’d like to see how’d you do in IndyCar, NASCAR, ALMS, Grand Am, American Superbike, motocross, and drag racing.
To those bashing oval racing: Try driving a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car at 200 MPH in the middle of 42 other cars. Or try driving an IndyCar at 230 MPH in the middle of 32 other cars where the slightest bit of contact usually results in you hitting the wall and/or another car.
I’m really ashamed of some of comments i just read. I can belive on such amount of don’t understandings and stupidity (don’t know if there is a better word for that).
Simply, if you don’t like it don’t play it or better don’t buy it. On market it many other games (with all genres) that will satisfied someone (even small groups of users).
I’m was and I’m still a big GT fan and I’ll buy game from day one (or 2 :) ).
Why so ‘hate’ about NASCAR? I presume if motorbikes are included in GT5 that will also have bad impact for some people in this community.
So please let that unmature and ‘haters’ comments on some others place (I’m sure that places like that still exist ‘thanks’ to big number of single minded thinkers).
Kazunori likes to keep secrets from us and I think it’s fair. That way, nobody would steal his ideas. It’s better when we find out by the time it comes out. I mean Gran Turismo is Kazunori’s masterpiece, and you guys have to give him credit.
@Villham
Forgive me for this, have you driven a real NASCAR? For me, I haven’t, but I can tell it is hard to drive a real one. By the way, a Frenchman invented Auto Racing before the Americans. I don’t know why you argue about NASCAR, but NASCAR is the only popular racing sport in the United States. The American gamers wanted a new NASCAR game from EA, but instead they found Gran Turismo. Only this time, Gran Turismo comes with licensed car brands for NASCAR. NASCAR only gets fun if you really drive on a real one.
yes must b patient
@wants GT5 to b released right now.
have faith. should not be long. better late than never.
man I’m getting the impression that this game is never gonna get released :(
@eric
i remember that mission very well and actually not long played it-it took me some time because u have to let the cars slipstream u then do it back to them in order to get close to the 1st car-bloody hell it was hard and required a lot of skill! but i was very pleased when i did do it cos i won a PAGANI LM car lol. i dont see why people are moaning about NASCAR
KAZ syas: it’s coming.. lol
WHEN?????!!
The best track in the U.S. Is already in GT – Laguna Seca
We are not the same person. We are just using the same WiFi hot spot.
I am not Villham. As I’ve said, I don’t care if NASCAR is included, Villham objects. Yamauchi said he was moved by the popularity of NASCAR in Texas, He didn’t say NASCAR was good, skillful or anything else. He’s catering for the American market. I’ve watched American motorsports on satellite and in my opinion most are watered down and simplified versions of european.
Yes, Villham and Noddy are posting messages from the same IP address.
Villham and Noddy are the same person, methinks. Can we get a little confirmation on that? Duke? Jordan?
@ BanditRa101801
Finally a voice of reason! Thank you!
@ VIL
Auto racing originated in france but if you consider racing against horses as true “Racing” then maybe PD should include that from of motor sport as well.
“So all American motorsports are simplfied versions of European motorsport which unlike NASCAR takes pure skill.”
Your argument is fallacious. According to your reasoning you could also argue: The earliest humans originated from Africa so all countries are simplified Africans.
Tom Cruise and Will Ferrell drove nascar’s for real. What does that say for those old farts who think the are oval racers. The average age being about 40 and their I.Q. A little higher than that. @Vil. Europeans invented cars, Americans bastardized them
Racing as we know it all over the world was invented in Italy (in Europe).
He raced a car against a horse and bicycle.
Naturally the car won. After people heard about it, more and more people raced their cars to see who was the fastest. That’s when road races started which sparked the flame of all motorsport.
Even the famous Ford GT40 wasnt even American, they couldn’t build a car fast enough to beat the Ferrari of the time. So they employed the British to design and build it.
Also the first cars ever built started life in Germany with the Daimler Benz.
The Ford model T was built cheapley and badley for the masses with little money.
Most American cars are not built to handle or brake, so the way to race them is NASCAR. Plus every muscle car in America has a stupid V8 with 7 or 8 litre engines.
Yet the Subaru Impreza WRX STI or the Evo are faster around circuits with only 2.0 and 2.5 litre engines and they’re family cars.
So all American motorsports are simplfied versions of European motorsport which unlike NASCAR takes pure skill.
Couldn’t care less if NASCAR is included as it’ll give my pet monkey something to do or if he’s bored I’ll let my grandad do it, he’ll probably win even though he’s blind and deaf
When I see what everyone has been posting about the inclusion of NASCAR, everyone has something to say, rather it being positivre or negative. The three things that stood out for me through the posts are regional differences, worth of driver skill and the point of Gran Turismo.
1) Regional Differences: I understand that the European style of racing is popular in most parts of the world. However, NASCAR started as a sport with the same humbled beginnings as the European style of racing and the same desire: humans pushing the limits of machines and risking lives just to get the thrill of speed. This is the esscence of auto racing. Though the machines and the circuits have different purposes, drivers have nonetheless sacrificed their own lives to fulfill this want.
2) Skill: Drivers compete around the world in various types of cars at tracks like the high-banked ovals of Daytona and Talladega to the beautiful and peaceful serenity of the road courses like Spa and Circuit de la Sarthe. These drivers compete through their career on different surfaces such as snow, dirt, and tarmac. These drives also compete through their career in different cars with unique characteristics. For example, Jimmie Johnson of NASCAR drove in off-road trucks before he switched to stock cars, and Michael Schumacher drove in go-karts, sports cars and lesser forumlas before heading into Formula 1. All of the drivers have had to go through various different machinery before going to the bigger stage. This switch in machinery and quick responsiveness to the automobilies is a skill that only racers have, not matter what discipline they choose.
3) The point of Gran Turismo: So, what is the point of Gran Turismo? Is it just a game that should have only the best cars, the best motorsport championships and the best tracks in it? No, the point of Gran Turismo is to give people the experience of the history and beauty of automobiles. Even though some of you may want only the best, Gran Turismo does not care who you are or where you come from…the only thing Gran Turismo cares about is bringing the automobile enthusiasts from all around the world with the common passion for the automobile that is like nothing else. For those who want to forget certain manufacturers, motorsports or tracks that have impacted the world in place for more common and “likeable” manufacturers, then you do not have the right to appreciate the game.
To put some fuel on the fire of pro-and anti nascar: few years ago, I watched The race of champions, a race challenge organized to show off the best drivers skills during a little competition. A guy like jeff Gordon was kicking some serious butts (of rally and Openwheels stars) during this little competition.
IMHO, Nascar is part of the racing world and should have its place in GT5, of course I would like more “classic” racing to be represented (F1, F3000, Rallycross, etc…) but I think it’s still way better than to include useless care like SUVs (Super Ugly Vehicle) or trucks like another well-known console game number 3.
By the way I meant drafting, not drifting.
@ Alan.
I can’t be bothered checking back on this forum all day to see if you reply, but I”ll just say that I think you’re making the mistake of assuming I mean that to be a driver in NASCAR you must have skills exceeding that of the average F1, WRC, Le Mans, etc. driver. To compare oval track drivers who depend largely on drifting to racers on road courses who must navigate corners in order to gain position is to compare apples to oranges. There is no comparison between the two. As for the inbred redneck remark, thats no more than is expected from someone with the temerity to say that ”no skill what so ever” is required to be a driver in NASCAR. Also, I didn’t call you eurotrash for saying NASCAR shouldn’t have been included in GT5, so it seems to me you’re just trying to pick a fight in stooping to call all fans of NASCAR inbred rednecks.
Anyway, at the end of the day what the consumer wants determines the final product.
Nitpicking voices like yours will go unheard.
If we go and look at the GT series sales numbers, the mosts GTx games were sold in Europe. EU is the biggest market for GT right now (and always was). But it is clear that Polyphony wants to increase its sales numbers in US, so Nascar was chosen. This is evident.
you dont have to be fan to notice same Nascar ‘cars’ with different colors.
@ Blademask:
Good point about pro wrestling. I’ve always said that despite the fact that the matches are choreographed and that everything follows a script, the wrestlers involved are extremely athletic and are capable of things I couldn’t even imagine pulling off.
The same thing goes for auto racing. I’m bored sick by drag racing, but I’m still blown away by what the drivers are capable of. To have such quick reactions, and to be able to control such a light, yet absurdedly tuned-up car is something I can barely believe is possible.
If you guys hate Nascar
Just B-spec it!
Ricky Bobby was right about you queer ass Europeans with your fancy f1 cars. You are all douche bags. I am going back to my trailer park to sulk in my fried chicken tv dinner. Yehaw asshole. Too bad f1 hasn’t been confirmed yet!
I hate pro-wrestling too, but you have to give credit where credit is due. Those drivers are just as capable as others, but its just not -as- entertaining as other racing.
I hate nascar. Still respect it though…
I understand nascar at least. Its not about just doing laps around an oval, its much more like a chess game, its almost like the extreme form of racing to where pits/fuel/weight matters more than anything out there. Its an endurance event as well.
With that said.. im going to LOVE setting up a Nascar Road Car :)
Well said MJRTM
Wow, it looks like NASCAR’s inclusion is really getting a lot of people to show their “true colors”. The intolerance, hate, immaturity, and shortsightedness many of you have displayed here is downright embarrasing.
Certainly any time a stereotype is repeated without any real understanding, people get offended, as they should. You should have expected to offend people by making absurd and insulting comments. If you failed to predict that it is your failing not theirs.
Are all Irish people lazy drunks and on the dole? Are all English people football hooligans with bad teeth? Do all Americans wear big hats and talk with southern accents?
If you don’t think NASCAR racing is a sport that requires any skill I invite you to prove it. And I repeat, I’m not even a NASCAR fan in any way. I’m just open-minded and not a hypocrite.
@ Wiseguy + Matt, lads, they drive around in an anticlockwise circle 2 or 3 hundred times, please tell and convince me where the skill is, if u can do that ill change my view, i watch f1, moto gp, wsb, wrc, a1 gp all of which require skill, they are motorsport and are all watched world wide and nobody outside the us gives a crap about nascar, im sorry but i stand by my view
Well Nascar is an inbred redneck event and i think i might have offended a few of them, i should of expected that though
Cry me a river Alan. You need stop your bellyaching. The game will be out when its out. If NASCAR required no skill then there wouldn’t be salaries being paid out to the drivers. You don’t become nationally televised on SpeedTV and have thousands of people paying to attend your races by not being a sport or holding races that ”require no skill what so ever”. You’re the dumbest person on this website if you really believe that. You’re not going to get the game any sooner regardless of how much you whine. By the way don’t speak of the game as if its already out. You say, with respect to NASCAR, that ”they should of left it out”. No, they should not HAVE left it out because its THEIR game and they’re catering to a definite MARKET DEMAND for a broad ranging race simulator, and NASCAR is part of that. Please get a brain before posting again.
nascar is not a sport… really? it’s not a motorsport? Requires no skill what so ever? I beg to differ. yes, I’m American and I do not like nascar, but your comment implies that you are retarded. Please get help somewhere. Preferably outside of the US of course.
Will be very funny when GT5 come out and most of you who is talking that Nascar is a waste of time, shutting your mouths.
Come on, why hate i feature that you even had tasted ? I’m sure you all will give a try when you have the game in your hands.
Isn’t better say that it will be a waste AFTER you played it ?
Anyone remember Driving Mission 23 from GT4? It’s the Skyline slipstream one. It’s not very easy, and take quite a bit of skill. I never really like NASCAR, but I had fun on this challenge, so I will probably like racing NASCAR.
What does that tell you, he’s being interviewed from a guy from his own country who just wants to know about GT5 and like the rest of us does not care about the stupid psp version and then the interviewer hits the nail on the head with the question ” WHY NASCAR”, nascar is not a sport, it requires no skill what so ever, theres a load of americans who hate it too, they should of left it out and concentrated on getting the game out
You know whats great having NASCAR or Oval Racing in Gran Turismo ? CREDITS MAKING BABY!
Mr.Yamauchi,how many cars in GT5??I hope not 200…
KAZUNORI PORSCHE PLLLLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!
PORSCHE PLSS !!!!!
adam carroll just won the a1 gp series for ireland (the world cup of motorsport). usa came 11th with 24 points i believe. we had possibly the best bike rider in the world in joey dunlop. the following are irish F1 drivers
Kenny Acheson
Martin Donnelly
Eddie Irvine
Damien Magee
Desmond Titterington
John Watson
Derek Daly
Ralph Firman
Joe Kelly
Dave Kennedy
but by far the most popular form of motorsport in ireland is rally. on virtually any weekend you will be able to find a rally event, most of which are can be entered by anybody, as long as you have the appropriate car. we are a tiny little county will a population of only about five million, less than half that of many american cities. i’m not having a go at americans and i am looking forward to playing nascar on gt5. i just couldn’t sit back and let people take the piss out of ireland.
villham says: What has America givin the world of motorsport?
This pretty much sums up your knowledge of motorsports history, so it also pretty much discredits most of what you say. Don’t like NASCAR? Goody for you. Don’t play that part of the game. But it doesn’t justify your “Ireland rules” attitude or utterly flawed knowledge about racing.
i never played a Nascar game b4……but i want to feel the sense of chaos..cars crashing..grinding…16 or more cars pitting changing tires at once *giggle*..that would be awesome!!!!
why so many nascars? they are all the same.
half a dozen would be more than enough but anymore they are just wasting time and space for better things, i do support the inclusion of some NASCAR though.
I am a little iritated by mr Tamagochy by now. He is still saying nothing and he is losing my interests.. I dont care if there will be nascar or not. For now we’ve got totaly nothing.
All who dont give any respect/chance to Oval-racing, are going to be surprised, if PD success to create NASCAR-online races right.
Four months ago, I didn’t give any value of Oval-racing. Then I started to play iRacing, to kill all this waiting of GT5. In iRacing, there is two different categories to progress your Licenses: Road, and Oval. I’m total Road-racer, but I also wanted to get my Oval-license promoted higher, so I took a part to those races also, when I had some extra time.
It took not long time, when I started to realize that it’s much more than just driving circle… I swear that there is so much excitement, strategy-aspects, small nyances, and it really need skills to being fast.
I really hope PD dont ‘cut corners’ when doing their version of Oval-racing. There must be atleast races over 30min, tyre-wear, gas-economics, pit-stops, yellow-flags, pace-car with re-starts, and ‘Lucky-Dog’ rules… if not, I will be disappointed cause all those things make NASCAR-races so complicated and exciting.
I recommend that everyone gives a chance to this new feature with open mind!
To all you NASCAR haters, if you dont like it, dont play it. I dont like NASCAR too much so i will probably avoid it, its no big deal infact i think its a good thing. Every trailer park in the USA is gonna have a PS3 between them now :)
When i buy the morning newspaper im not dissapointed with the sections i dont care to read (everything besides the titties and sport) and i feel its still worth my 30 pence :)
NASCAR is soooo boring. So Yamauchi just stop to include them into GT5 and finish the game!
I’m not NASCAR fan (like most europeans), but that doesn’t mean that i don’t respect it. I’m also with guys that are for much motorsport categories included in GT series as possible. And NASCAR in GT may be good. That is about NASCAR.
Second, I know that game will be great when it is released. Just hope that from car list there will be remove all versions and variations of Skyline, Impreza, Lancer, and so on. I love to see one or two models from from each version (like one …,R30, one R31,…, two R34), and to do same with others important cars from EU and US like Mustangs, Corvette, Benz SL series, BMW serie 3… Golf (just to name some of) and so on.
Also hope that there will be more real word race tracks like Silverstone, Monza, Spa, …
Nascar is a great show and it needs lots of skill to be fast, like on any other racetrack. The problem we europeans have with Nascar is the “gamble” factor. You simply need more luck to be upfront and it’s not that the fastest driver/car always wins. That’s not good about Nascar, in my point of view, from the race driver perspective. And they have yellow flags all the time, so the first 180 laps don’t really count in oval racing.
But I like the action and the drama at the end in some way. It’s more fun than most race classes, maybe not more sports, but more fun.
@GT5
I fear that we will not see the full grid in the oval races :( I really would love driving against 35 other cars. Let’s hope the manage to improve the framerate for the final game, so that we could see and enjoy the full nascar field in the game – at least for oval racing it would make sense. For the rest, 16 cars are fine…
Also they should change the drag system. It’s important, but right now it’s a bit unrealistic in Prologue. Also a Nascar behaves very different in the oval, because of the asymmetric suspension settings, the tires and so on. Let’s hope PD gets it right. Kaz always looks a bit naive when he talks about racing, in a good way
well i may not be interested in nascar! but it could be good! i would like to see DTM, BTCC and stuff like that! wasnt bikes meant to be in GT5? moto GP could be good in GT5
@ Villham
Calm down and get reasonable. Just because you don’t give a rat’s bottom doesn’t mean everyone else doesn’t (including other Europeans such as myself). At least give NASCAR respect as a sport in its own right, just as F1, GT or WRC.
-K
@Villham How about the first mass production car, the Ford T, and muscle cars, like Vipers and Corvettes?
@Villham
One F1 driver and one team owner. And a guy that designed bikes.
Totally better than all the motorsport that’s ever come out of the US.
I don’t care what kind of motorsports they add as long as they add all the gameplay from GT4 with advance physics and transfer it to GT5 more life like. It’s cool driving at nurburgring with a Yellow Bird, but something is missing. maybe it’s the in-car view and a proper oversteer of the car and maybe more bumps to mimic the real life car? If they applied that to GT5, we don’t need GT6 for the next 6, 7 years or more, then add PSN to that. Online match, DLC, more cars, more tracks. It’s limitless of they all manage to do it.
@ Will.
Have you ever heard of Eddide Irvine or Eddie Jordan?
Eddie Irvine has won races in F1.
And Eddie Jordan founded his own F1 team and found Micheal Schumacher which is the best F1 driver ever.
When T.T. bike racing began, it had many flaws such as the frame on the bike. It was a square shape. This meant it was shaking at high speeds. An Irish T.T. racer designed a new frame. That shape frame is the shape frame on every bike sold in the world.
What has America givin the world of motorsport?
Does anyone for a second think that NASCAR is harder to do than touring car or F1.
I’ve raced on the mondello race track in Ireland as an amateur, it is 1 of the hardest tracks to race in western Europe.
If you don’t belive me than google it.
Watch touring car races, sometimes they roll and crash their cars a high speeds. Yet they manage to races around tracks with lots of tight twists and turns.
So I’m saying now that NASCAR is not as difficult as other forms of racing, including drifting, rallying, snow races etc…. And is a bit of a joke in Europe.
Add the D1GP!!!!!
Good job keeping your mouth shut Kazunori!!
dont spoil us! dont release the car list, even if that games is out!
i spoiled my self in Gran Turismo 4 by looking at the car list :(
Gran Turismo is the ambassador of ALL forms of motorsport. GT5 is going to blow everyone away. Everyone in the world. Surely most every preference of motorsport will be included. From f1 to wrc. From ice racing to drag racing. The more cars the better INCLUDING NASCAR. They’ve had enough time make the game complete. People say they are wasting time? These guys sleep under their desks at work! How dare anyone doubt their dedication or work ethic. Their time is well spent as PD has a true passion for creating the real driving simulator. Thank GOD Sony are not forcing them to publish a rehashed game every year.
I can’t wait for the game to drop. Not just for the glorious game itself, but so the pundits can finally shut the hell up.
“The countries most popular for gaming [do you mean race simulators?] are Japan and Ireland/UK.”
That’s hilarious! Does anyone want to clue me in on the brilliant racing pedigree of Ireland compared to that of the US? I’d really like to hear that one!
NASCAR drivers have raced in Formula 1 recently? When?
Also, NASCAR does not just race on ovals, and it takes more skill than you think to race as closely as they do, at high speed. It’s a different kind of racing, but it should not be discredited.
Villham the 500 is how many miles it is, not laps. There is a lot more skill in nascar than you might think, being within inches of cars at over 200mph isn’t easy. Especially when you’re on the 300-400th mile
Pingwhen. What about the Daytona 500 race in America? I’ve watched NASCAR racing before and I can’t see why racing around a boring old oval is so great. That’s why when any NASCAR driver tries to race in F1, they just can’t do it.
So explain the skill in NASCAR?
I think PD now is more interested to vow US gamers…
what a waste to model a same ugly shape cars..
now after this -American Football?
villham, im sorry, but honestly get off your high horse, if you really love racing you love every type no matter what, just because you dont understand nascar doesnt mean you have to bash it, or not allow it into the largest racing game there is. and by the way its 200 laps around daytona. not 500
I think that it’s a waste of time putting NASCAR into GT5. They could have spent their time finishing the game.
The countries most popular for gaming are Japan and Ireland/UK. So we don’t care for NASCAR at all.
I’m sure it will be fun at first but after racing 500 or so laps around Daytona, it’ll get boring quickly.
Come on PD, give the people what they want.
Good, the more types of racecars the better IMHO.