Modes
Quick Race simply allows up to four players to participate on any track and race with a specified amount of settings. After the race ends, the game returns to the main menu.
Career Mode is the most involving mode of the game. Returning from NASCAR Thunder 2002, it places the player in control of a custom Winston Cup driver, who must manage pit crew, sponsorship and research and development for 20 seasons.
Although Season Mode, like Career Mode, allows the player to play through 20 seasons, it is essentially the Quick Race mode with season standings. Unlike career mode, which starts the player with inferior equipment and pit crew, they are equal to the AI's from the start. Players have a choice to play as either existing or custom drivers, and the settings are completely customizable, unlike the limited options in Career Mode. To achieve multiplayer compatibility, it not only decreases the amount of AI drivers in a race while also randomizing them, meaning only a handful of drivers end up participating in the entire season. However, like in Quick Race, they can be disabled for a 2–4 player competition.
Thunder License is the time attack mode of the game; basically a tutorial and time trial of how to race across the included tracks.
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