Evolution of Pit Stops in NASCAR Games (1994-2021)

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:10 NASCAR Racing 1994
0:41 NASCAR Racing 2
1:11 NASCAR 98
1:35 NASCAR 99
1:56 NASCAR 2000
2:26 NASCAR Heat 2002
2:49 NASCAR Thunder 2002
3:18 NASCAR Thunder 2003
3:45 NASCAR Dirt to Daytona
4:01 NASCAR Racing 2003 Season
4:30 NASCAR Thunder 2004
5:04 NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup
5:39 NASCAR SimRacing
6:05 NASCAR 06: Total Team Control
6:21 NASCAR 07
6:46 NASCAR 08
7:11 NASCAR 09
7:38 iRacing
7:57 NASCAR The Game: 2011
8:19 NASCAR The Game: Inside Line
8:40 NASCAR The Game: 2013
9:04 NASCAR '14
9:31 NASCAR '15
10:02 NASCAR Heat Evolution
10:30 NASCAR Heat 2
10:54 NASCAR Heat 3
11:20 NASCAR Heat 4
12:00 NASCAR Heat 5
12:25 NASCAR 21: Ignition 2021
13:34 End

[FRONTIR_yt]

Which NASCAR game had the most realistic pit stop?

[Bruh-pgxw]

i like how in nascar 2005 chase for the cup the pitcrew is mister clean

[UnfunnyContent]

5:10 I never thought I would witness an army of Mr Clean as a pit crew

[scotlandex]

5:11 lol getting a pitstop from MR Clean!!!!1 IM DYING

[saimchoudhary]

12:25
The fact that the guys are like
"Not our problem until u get in the right spot"

[Username_Invalid]

1996 has the fondest childhood memories. "Watch your speed, watch your speed". Annoying crew chief but so memorable.

[fathomrl]

I like the idea of pressing buttons to make your stop time lower, it kind of makes sense

[BrattyNerdGirl]

I spent hours playing Nascar Racing 1994. So nostalgic seeing that pitstop.

[firewalker]

@2:11 Spider-Man throwing that fuel can like it wasn’t sh*t 🤣 😂. Something tells me NASCAR would frown upon that.

[richskater]

It's before the timeline represented (1990) but Days of Thunder on the NES had cool pitstops. You actually had to control the crew members yourself, so it was up to you whether you had a quick stop or not. I was awful at it, but still my favorite part of that game and never really seen anything like it since.

[AceD]

0:47 I've got to pit.
we're busy now. - We're eating ice cream.
Ice cream?

[melapelan]

5:20 didn't know they had a mr.clean pit crew in that game lmak

[OOZ]

'94 always felt the best to me because you had control of the car through the whole pit lane (though maintaining the speed limit with a digital button was agony); I only wished that your box would be other than the first one sometimes. The car being on autopilot down pit road and the AI doing nothing but following each other in one massive single line for the entire race was what put me off of the later NASCAR games.

[jackmcslay]

Good thing they invented visible pit stop crew in 1999, imagine going to the pit stop and not realizing you hit the car jack operator

[chrisredsox]

NASCAR 98 was my favorite growing up. I can still here the song, flirting with disaster.

[saimchoudhary]

7:54
I like how the car went through the guy

[JReaLBiz]

nr2003 has the best pit stops hands down.

Not only were the pit crews animated, but the entire stop was manually controlled.

Meaning if you stopped too close to the wall, you can't get your tires changed on that side.

If you're not stopped in the center of your stall, your crew can't change the tires in unison, adding time to the stop.

If you rolled too far or didn't come far enough, the crew can't start service on your car until you're in the stall proper.

You actually had to do a pit stop. Like all the Papy NASCAR titles, but nr2003 was the magnum opus before the dev team got started on iRacing.

None of that "get to pit road speed before the line and the game takes over" crap. Just like an actual driver, the effectiveness of a pit stop mostly depended on you.

I get that such a level of realism doesn't appeal to everyone... but then, we shouldn't be having a discussion about pit stops for the "casual" players, should we?

[JustseptiplierhelpUkarine]

The pit stop scene in NASCAR 2005, they looked like Mr.Clean

[jermaineboyd]

In nascar thunder 2004 your pit crew can make a mistake which lose some time on a normal routine stop.

[ZaxleTV]

Apparently Nascar 99 was running single lugs on all 4 tires over 2 decades before NASCAR did