EA Sports’ whimsical new NASCAR game represents a strategy shift that could lead to an overhaul of the sport’s gaming category.
Declining sales from the “NASCAR ’09” game, a desire to reach a broader audience and the need to create a game that fits the Wii console were all integral to the formation of “NASCAR Kart Racing,” which hit store shelves the week of the Daytona 500.
EA’s “NASCAR ’09” game can still be purchased, but the formation of new games in that line is on hold.
“The old game was more for the simulation players, the serious gamers…Â More info
Several things are more pressing than the issue of who’ll drive for the Charlotte-based American Formula One team formally announced Tuesday, but the question is the one most fans want the answer to.
Peter Windsor, who along with Ken Anderson is leading the USF1 effort, threw out the names of several drivers who aren’t all that familiar to NASCAR fans but who are developing their careers in a somewhat natural path for a fledgling F1 team.
“If one had to take names now…the next generation looks …Â More info
Sprint Cup driver Matt Kenseth has become one of only five drivers to win the first two Sprint Cup races of the year, and the first since colleague Jeff Gordon did it in 1997. Kenseth’s win in Sunday’s Auto Club 500 on Sunday came just one week after his victory in the Daytona 500, which ended after only 152 of 200 laps, due to heavy rain. His win in the Auto Club 500 didn’t come quite as quickly, with the full race being run!
On Sunday, Kenseth led the field at Fontana, California’s Auto Club Speedway for 84 laps of the 250-lap race. With 38 laps left …Â More info
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DALE EARNHARDT JR. has always been a stand-up guy, so a tip of the ol’ restrictor plate to him for admitting that he caused the multiple-car wreck in the Daytona 500.
In an interview before Sunday’s Sprint Cup race in California, Junior said he takes responsibility for the wreck that ended the race for Brian Vickers and several others. Kyle Busch, who had led the most laps until the wreck, also was taken out…. More info
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