NASCAR Racing 2003 - Coming to iRacing - SOON 

iRacing just tweeted that they are going to look to bring the speedway bodies as well with the release, or at least reevaluating how they will approach it.

I was just at the RCR museum last week and a guy was in there scanning that Kevin Harvick car.

It’s nice iRacing is doing something in memory of NR2003 since a lot of the people who were or r currently at iRacing all came from Papyrus that made NR2003. Not to mention last year was NR2003’s 20th year anniversary and we never got anything for it. Were thinking iRacing probably just wants to forget about completely. I will say for now I do like that we’re getting both the Chevy and Ford first, even though kinda ironic that iRacing will have released 2 versions of the Monte Carlo first with the ‘87 cars and now 2003 version, but I do hope iRacing does get the ‘03 Pontiac GP and Dodge Intrepid at some point to compete the set. They were able to get the Buick LeSabre and Pontiac GP for the ‘87 cars so Pontiac might not be that hard, Dodge though we’ll have to see.

And to think all of this was because they “accidentally” unlimited the arca car

Ah, I can finally fulfill my dream of having all 89 Kenseth #17 schemes on the sim for real 😂

Finally my years of begging have paid off

Bring back the x-pipe sounds for Superspeedways

Im excited for this but I was really hoping for the 2000-2002 bodies.

As someone who basically has iracing for gen 4 cup I see this as a win

Can’t overstate how awesome this will be

After all these years, we finally get NASCAR 2003 2

Don't forget, Indycar has multiple configurations with fenders/wings based on track type. So it can definitely be done.

I lived that “golden age” and hunting for the fastest setups that were posted on forums was like hunting for treasure 😂 I got a setup for charlotte that was unbeatable🎉 But when Papyrus and all the computer sim makers went out of business the golden age turned into the dark ages 😢 until iracing finally got up and running, I joined like the 3rd day 😂 I was disappointed I didn’t catch the first day 😊 Well this should be interesting it might draw me back, I hate the way the current cars drive.

Part of me wanted to see the 1998 bodies to be scanned for the gen 4 series. (My reason is, that year was Nascar's 50th Anniversary) But I'm hyped for this, and hope there's enough support and and popularity for this that iRacing will deem it viable to eventually get the Dodge and Pontiac later on.

That’s a trip I knew nothing about this and ironically just got done installing nr 2003 for like the umteenth time. Hell Yes🔥Lets Roll 🤙

I wouldn't be surprised if you could use the same paint for all the bodies. In NR2003, the cars would automatically change between short track, intermediate, and superspeedway while using the same scheme.

I a'm really excited by this! Would be cool if we got a track with it, or at least a skin that it looks like it did in 2003.

Super excited for these! Can't wait for a proper Gen 4 car.

Need both Pontiac and Dodge also

I Hope this is more a 2006 Mile and a half cars where there crazy low and twisted and look almost like late models. But i think its the SS bodys with the wicker ontop

I really wish they would also give us the '05 charger body. it looked so good.

I think if they were to scan the 03 Pontiac their best bet is Ricky Cravens Darlington car which is a rebuild as the car ran again in the 2004 Darlington race as a Chevy but was in an crash, but even then we would only have the intermediate car. There were many 03 Pontiac bodies in Cup, Busch, and Arca between 2003-07 maybe more could be found intact but I assume most were scrapped, left in pieces or had new bodies put on it.

This is amazing but I want the COT with the wing back lol (with an update tire model)

Finally a genuine gen 4 cup car! Now we just need a mid-late 90’s cup car and we will be set.

It was 4 manufacturers in nr2k3, I thought. Pontiac was still around and Dodge was active in cup at that point

I would love to try the car of tomorrow with big wing in iRacing just to see what it was like

I will be waiting on the Pontiac and the Dodge.

This is what I’m saying. Iracing said a few months ago that they were giving monster game their car model tracks and assets from the iracing pc game so that they can use those models and assets in the 2025 Nascar game and even said they are updating iracing itself so that they can take the assets and models in that and put it in the new nascar game. My theory is that is why they are adding this to iracing, also they did recently add the street stock asphalt cars to the iracing game itself, so based on what they said about using the models and assets and updating iracing, I believe that they are most likely doing this so that they can put all of this into the nascar 25 video game that’s also being made by them. But that’s just my theory, a game theory!(see what I did there)

From 2003 the brands that were in Nascar were Pontiac, Dodge, Ford, and Chevy.

I hard theories that this was for NASCAR 25 but idk

Sounds like it's gonna be awesome!

So. Much. Painting. if they do all the body types.

Looking forward to this it is worth the wait would love to see the pontiac grand prix and the dodge intrepid in the future, but would still want to see a Chevrolet lumina in a separate carset like a mid 90s nascar carset

Honestly I would have preferred the 2001or2002 car but I’m not complaining I’m excited

This will be great but if I was Dale I would be bugging the crap out of Dave K. on getting a tire model that will work on the oval side.

2003 gen 4 chevrolet monte carlo and 2003 gen 4 ford taurus nice man hope the pontiac grand prix and dodge intrepid come but since dodge owned by chrysler owned by stellantis Im sure the pontiac will come before the dodge if the dodge ever does come but I hope both pontiac and dodge do come.

That’s awesome.

I hope they bring the Pontiac and Dodge to the game

I'd love to see Pontiac eventually.

looks good

I really was wishing on this for you guys racing on Iracing

This is all I’ve ever asked for! Wow this is the most amazing news, I’m still driving NR2003 races weekly since I just love the cars and the feeling!

Think how awesome it would be to release it for labor day Darlington throw back weekend.

If only the AI was as good as NR2003.

So since Nr2003 coming to iracing are we gonna get extra cars and tracks like Daytona beach and bowman gray stadium and old 1950s cars ?

More gen 4 cars? Cool!

Thats so cool! Now we all wont be the same manu

This is awesome. I am also ready for the street stock redo, any idea when the street stocks are to be updated?

I really wish they would add a new body style for the dirt straight stocks because 90% of the dirt tracks IRL don't allow Camaro bodies anymore

Coming Soon

Past due, but I'm not complaining

We better get a dodge

Is there any difference between the cup 2003 and 2007 cars? And with the speedway body, does that mean we can bump draft at plate tracks? Also, I think both dodge and Pontiac were around in 03. They probably are only bringing ford and Chevy because nascar doesn’t have the other 2 anymore.

I’d expect each car to be its own thing (separate purchases) like the 1987 cars are currently.

I love it

This happening with the gen 4, wonder how long before ARCA gets finally updated to the current bodies?

What about road cars. Are they going to add any new gt3?

I don't know why anybody would be thinking bump drafting in a gen 4.

No f..... Way. Hell yea

They did a re-skin of the ARCA car pretty recently. Would they really do another one so soon?

@Nick How will these drive and handle compared to the "Gen4" car or even the Legacy Nascars? I wasnt sim racing in 2003 lol

You can’t push with these cars this isn’t a modern cup car these are gen 4.

I wonder if the dodge intrepid and pontiac grand prix will be coming after

Damn. I didn't realize how skewed the nose was

I get that the racing was great with these cars, but i was never a fan of the ridiculously twisted bodies.

More boring cars that will only appeal to Americans. ARCA, Gen 4 and now these, who needs so many cars that are basically the same when you can go through ALL of motorsports through the years and have more varied cars. Typical that Jr. only cares about the NASCAR side of things and not the rest of the world.

Money grab