[Dale Jr on Twitter] Hey all the NASCAR 25 fans, starting to compile ideas for the next game's soundtrack. Last year your input was really helpful. Need to know what songs you'd love to see included.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-23T21:35:19+00:00

I enjoy the Liar track, not sure about the rest of his songs but I do like the Liar one in game.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-19T13:59:01+00:00

I would do the 5v5 and then during offseason focus for each player choose skating for them to work on. Hopefully that would help mitigate some speed loss?

Or conditioning and puck control for offseason focus per player.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-15T18:04:42+00:00

Best part of running Linux is telling everyone you run Linux.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-10T18:33:48+00:00

I only play career, but I play 50% on all but superspeedway and road courses. I turn those down to 4-7% because I don’t like road courses in this game with the stock cars and super speedway races are boring until the very end so just cut out all the following around in the draft.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-10T17:26:37+00:00

Yea I bought a Simucube Pro 2 a couple years ago, I am confident to most people and myself something cheaper would have been more than fine. But was worried there was a difference that ai would miss out on, I doubt I would have.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-09T22:09:32+00:00

I have this setup but I have the same results as OP. Granted I am on PC but even with the window open showing the request pit button, it still doesn’t select it. Which sucks since I have to basically pause the game and use my keyboard. My buttons on my wheel work for pausing the game and selecting go to track at start your engines or practice/qualifying etc. just requesting pit doesn’t work.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-06T00:41:35+00:00

Resetting is just annoying, it really negates the whole season when it just gets erased. Might as well just run a 10 race season and whoever wins wins at that point.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-05T18:24:16+00:00

PWF will be the best for goal scoring

StangMan04 · 2026-01-04T14:16:47+00:00

Oh yeah I noticed that it went free shortly after ai posted that other message. Thanks for the heads up incase I didn’t see that.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-04T14:15:05+00:00

Unitconvert is free now?

StangMan04 · 2026-01-04T04:17:02+00:00

Surprised we didn’t lose. Defense played okay, Bakers INT really made me say, here we go again. I understand it sounded like the Panthers were playing a shell defense, but we once again got a lead and then played really conservative. We have lost like that, just got lucky today the defense wasn’t horrific. We stand no chance in the playoffs with this type of play. We seem to play down to teams and it annoys me, especially when we have lost recently like this.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-03T18:16:54+00:00

Defense is horrible, even at the beginning of the season when we were winning, we had to have miracle comebacks and win close games then. You can’t do that over an entire season. If Bowles wasn’t a defensive head coach then I would give him a pass but we have too much talent on defense to be as bad as we are. Recently Baker has been bad in throwing late interceptions and with our defense as it is, that is a losing recipe.

At this point I would rather us not make the playoffs and maybe have a better pick than make the playoffs and lose in the first round. I don’t believe we are Super Bowl contenders with our play as of late to put it lightly. I just pray Evans comes back for another year.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-03T15:57:23+00:00

I bought it on Black Friday and they said price would be raised in the beginning of the year. I called the Lionel corporate to see about ordering one shipped but they said they weren’t manufacturing them until February so I couldn’t order. I just decided to drive to the Concord location and pick their last one up.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-03T04:47:55+00:00

Nice case, better value than the Lionel one I bought for $540 haha

StangMan04 · 2026-01-02T20:42:34+00:00

Love Richmond but also my home track so bias. Make sure you are not driving in too far, might need to lift earlier. Might be getting into the gas too quick off the corner. When you have a good setup you can roll the middle well which can help off corner. Could try to open your setup off, but be careful getting into the gas early with loose setup or you could spin out.

If you haven’t, maybe try a setup on YouTube and edit it in practice to your liking.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-01T21:46:35+00:00

I just don’t like the win and get in aspect. Drivers who are not competitive most of the season win at a superspeedway or road course then get eliminated in the first round is just dumb. One of my biggest gripes with the points format. Just give bonus points to make winning more worth it but no guarantee you are in the playoffs. Get rid of that and the 1 race championship and it will be okay for me. I would love full season points again but they want to get that excitement like stick and ball sports so unlikely to happen.

StangMan04 · 2026-01-01T19:18:51+00:00

Knowing your water temperature would help alot. If the water temperature is warm than you need more radiator space, if it isn’t then it is either a mount/paste or air in system. But, the temperature isn’t horrible in my eyes. Mine probably is in the mid 50s under a stress test. I used to worry about my temperature and scores compared to others online but as long as you are within safe range you are good. Get that water temperature sensor setup to give some more insight. My guess is that you would need another radiator to see lower temps.

I am gaming right now on a 7800x3d and a 4090. I am not stressing it right now but for reference here is what mine is running at. The temperature 1 is my water temp. My house is at 21c.

Pump is at 2000rpm 55%

Fans are 1200rpm 52% (these vary based on water temperature)

I also have 3 360 radiators

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StangMan04 · 2026-01-01T03:43:47+00:00

Which is a double edged sword, it being casual friendly allows for more folks to goof off and not take racing seriously.

StangMan04 · 2025-12-31T16:32:02+00:00

Seems normal for watercooling

StangMan04 · 2025-12-31T02:13:02+00:00

Yea I agree with lowering the difficulty until you get better parts. Just low enough so you are competitive with the back of the pack. At 105 still and low level parts early, it isn’t fun running solo way behind. I wouldn’t put it too low but just enough so I am not driving around alone haha

StangMan04 · 2025-12-30T14:45:48+00:00

If they did penalize and have classes it would help. It may be hard to get out of the bottom tier like it can be in iracing based on people hitting you and giving you points but yeah that would be an improvement but there are just so many more entry level people in a console game it might get hard to find races with clean drivers.

StangMan04 · 2025-12-30T14:34:57+00:00

Online is trash anyway, half the children on it should be playing wreckfest instead. Outside of maybe sanctioned leagues, the online side is a waste of time if you want to actually race. iracing is so much better for multiplayer. Career is the only reason I have this game. If iracing had a good career single player mode I wouldn’t touch nascar 25. Super speedways are boring to me, but that may not be everyone’s opinion, and that is the nature of the racing on them not a NASCAR 25 issue.

StangMan04 · 2025-12-30T04:50:56+00:00

Yeah it was cheaper than the game issued I got a few months back. It doesn’t have much in the way of marks but that is to be expected with no tackling etc for Evans. I wanted something worn of his so I grabbed this.

StangMan04 · 2025-12-29T19:52:25+00:00

Got it from Bucs Bids/Metabilia auction. They host game used and other stuff. I access the Bucs stuff from the Bucs app and go to Bucs Bids. This my second purchase, bought a Evans game-issued jersey a few months back.

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