Game Modes

• Career Mode
• Start as an up and coming driver of the Nascar Weekly Series.
• Overtime gain sponsors, money and fame, and work your way up through four of Nascar’s top divisions.
• Purchase upgrades for your car.
• Fast Action – A group of arcade style race modes where you race to earn points for unlockables.
• Single Race
• Enter any race in any division that you choose.
• Choose your level of difficulty
• Race to meet objectives to earn points for unlockables.
• Beat specific lap times
• Top 10 finish
• Top 5 finish
• Lead a Lap
• Win a race (more points for the harder difficulty selected)
• Championship
• Race in just one season of any division to earn points.
• No focus on sponsors or making money.
• Race the Pro
• You are given the chance to race one of the stars of the Winston Cup series.
• Beat the Heat
• In this mode you are thrown into a scenario that is similar to one that one of the Winston Cup stars have faced in the past.
• You must complete the given objectives in order to pass the challenge.

Gameplay

• The majority of the gameplay comes from the Career Mode.
• You are forced to start the dirt track ranks of the “Weekly Series”.
• Fight for winnings up to $10,000 in small towns.
• Start with no sponsors and the lowest quality car parts.
• Eventually you will get sponsor offers that you will earn you additional money over your race winnings.
• Use your winnings to buy better quality car parts:
• Engines
• Suspension
• Aerodynamics
• Exhaust system
• Win to earn offers to compete in more lucrative divisions
• Featherlite
• Craftsman Truck
• Winston Cup
• Dirt to Daytona offers a surprising amount of customization options for your race car.
• Adjust the front, left, right or rear weight of the car.
• Add or remove wedge.
• Adjust the springs.
• Adjust the shocks.
• Change the left or right side camber angles.
• Change the sway bar.
• Adjust the break bias.
• Increase or decrease the spoiler angle.
• Change the amount of grill tape on your car.
• Set your tire pressures.
• Adjust your gear ratio.
• While tuning your car is fun and can help you squeeze every second out of your car. It’s not entirely necessary.
• If you are patient and want to race more races before winning, you can earn enough money to buy better parts.
• Eventually these better parts will be good enough for you to win with without any tinkering.
• So the decision to play with the car’s settings is entirely up to the player and how soon he wants to win races.
• In each division, the cars handle differently.
• On the dirt tracks, you’ll get a good feeling for drift racing as you slide your car around corners.
• Loosing what little traction you have in this division might leave you facing the wrong direction.
• The featherlite series allows you to finally grip some pavement.
• The racing here doesn’t seem that difficult as loosing grip on the corners might slow you down, but probably won’t make you wreck.
• Also, damage doesn’t hurt you as much in this division.
• Adding better car parts will help these cars the most.
• In the Craftsman Truck series, you start to get the sensation of speed.
• On the larger tracks you’ll also have to start using the draft.
• The Winston Cup is the ultimate test.
• You’ll really feel like you have some power under the car.
• Drafting is essential for the super speedways.
• Damage affects the handling the most in this series.
• Throughout all game modes, you will earn points which you can use to unlock hidden features.
• Unlock miniature cars
• Monster Trucks
• Extreme Drafting
• Overly Aggressive AI
• And more
• The opponent AI is ok, but there seem to be far too few wrecks caused by the AI.
• You will however, see a lot of bumping and grinding, and after a while these minor skirmishes will thin out the pack.
• But if you’re hoping for a caution, then you might have to wait for a while, unless you cause it yourself.