NASCAR 08

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NASCAR 08
Developer(s) EA Tiburon
Publisher(s) EA Sports
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Platform(s) Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Playstation 2

NASCAR 08 will be the eleventh installment of EA Sports' NASCAR video game series. It is currently in development by EA Tiburon. It is scheduled for release on July 17, 2007.

Tony Stewart will be on the cover of the game. The Car of Tomorrow as well as the regular car will be present in the game.

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[edit] Features

As the new rookie driver on the circuit:

• Develop your racing skills to gain licenses and contracts from hungry owners and unlock legendary top performing cars from NASCAR's biggest stars.

• Gain new experiences during every race then modify your car's handling with over 40 tuning options to truly master every track.

• Share your setups with NASCAR's online community, then challenge the field in live races with up to 16 other drivers.

NASCAR 08 will be on store shelves this summer and is rated "E" for (Everyone) by the ESRB. The game will be available on the Playstation 2, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.


[edit] Drivers

  1. 11- Denny Hamlin - FedEx Express Chevrolet
  2. 17- Matt Kenseth - DeWalt Ford
  3. 20- Tony Stewart - The Home Depot Chevrolet
  4. 26- Jamie McMurray - IRWIN Industrial Tools Ford
  • Note these are not confirmed by EA, but are in screenshots of NASCAR 08. As more screenshots are released, more will be added to the list.

[edit] Tracks

Bristol Motor Speedway

  • Note these are not confirmed by EA, but are in screenshots of NASCAR 08. As more screenshots are released, more will be added to the list.

[edit] Rumours

In the last 3 games the Craftsman trucks have been "Generic" because Toyota has not been able to be in the game. And in the screenshots of the game so far all of the COT cars appear to be "Generic" cars with no manufacture markings. Whether or not this will be the case in the final game is yet to be known.

Bristol Motor Speedway is currently under-going a complete re-surfacing of its concrete track, as well as the addition of Progressive Banking. It is yet to be known if the newly re-done version of Bristol will be in the game or, if the previous configuration will be used. The relatively early release date of the game makes this unlikely.

[edit] Trivia

  • Dale Jarrett's Big Brown Truck paint scheme is not available in NASCAR 07, but it was in NASCAR 06: Total Team Control.
  • UPS Speedway is once again called Redball Speedway, as it was in NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup.
  • Mr. Clean Speedway is now called Allstate Speedway, which also results as not having the Mr. Clean pit crew chase plate. Mr. Clean has been replaced by Allstate as a sponsor in Custom Car Garage.
  • The Levi Strauss sponsor is not in this game, so Levi Strauss Signature Speedway is now called Meadow Creek Speedway.
  • For the Watkins Glen International track, it says in the track selection screen "Nextel Cup 400 at the Glen" but billboards for Sirius still appear. However, the 2006 race at Watkins Glen was titled AMD @ The Glen, and didn't have the Sirius sponsor that was used in previous seasons. AMD's sponsorship was announced after the signage had been programmed. This similar situation is seen when selecting Michigan International Speedway in the Busch Series, the race is named the Michigan 250, as the sponsor in 2006 was Carfax. It is again seen in the Craftsman Truck Series race at Talladega, as the John Deere sponsorship was announced after the game was released.
  • At Old Spice Speedway, billboards for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby can be seen. In the film, Old Spice is the primary sponsor of Ricky Bobby's teammate Cal Naughton, Jr.
  • Carl Edwards is not present in the game, reportedly because he, Office Depot, and EA Sports could not agree on a contract. In addition, full-time drivers Clint Bowyer and Ken Schrader are also unavailable. Bowyer is absent due to his car number, 07, and sponsor Jack Daniel's being a part of alcohol promotion (even though there are two alternating sponsors with their own distinct paint schemes, Sylvania and DirecTV, the #07 font was the same as the alcohol sponsor) However, Bowyer is still available in the Busch Series (because the car was #2 with ACDelco). Schrader's absence was due to his sponsorship agreement. McKee Foods, the parent of Little Debbie, is owned and operated by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and prohibits advertising from sundown Friday until sundown Saturday. In those races in real life, other sponsors are placed on the cars, and the cars are wrapped so the US Air Force or Motorcraft is placed the car at the team shop for Friday qualifying or Saturday practice, and the design is peeled off the car Sunday morning, unveiling the Little Debbie design.
  • The Allstate Good Hands Driver award can now be won by the player.
  • Players can no longer use numbers below 100 for their created cars, only 100-199 can be used.
  • Breaking Benjamin's song "The Diary of Jane", which is featured on NASCAR 07's soundtrack, was also used in promotional videos for the game.
  • In the intro video for the Allstate Qualifiers, the Busch Series logo on Kenny Wallace's uniform is covered up with a piece of white tape.
  • The drivers with the lowest ratings in NASCAR 07 are Kyle Petty and Tony Raines. Every grade they have is a C-. Likewise, the one who has the highest grades in the game is Dale Earnhardt Sr., who has all A+'s. Tony Stewart has the best ratings of any living driver with 3 A+'s and 1 A, and an overall A+. Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon both have the same 3 A+'s and 1 A, but their overall ratings are just A's.
  • No matter how good or bad at a particular type of track you are, your created driver will always have a 'B' grade in the Driver Attributes.
  • Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s picture in the Driver Select is the only picture in the game that is not a posed photo. Everyone else's picture is posed and looking at the camera, whereas Junior is not looking at the camera, and a significant brighter light balance is in his picture, which possibly means that this picture was not taken in a studio, and somewhere out around the track.
  • In most of Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s Dodge Challenge videos, he will be wearing his 2006 Busch Series Oreo uniform.
  • As with 2004 (Kevin Harvick not making the chase), and 2005 (Jimmie Johnson not winning the title, and Jeff Gordon not making the Chase), Elliott Sadler's appearance on the cover seems to have caused a Madden curse-like scenario, as he struggled to stay in the top 20 in points, even after switching teams.
  • There is an error on the number 77 Dollar General sponsored car of Burney Lamar. The number on the head lights and the rear end lights says 34, which was the number of Randy Lajoie, who drove the Dollar General car in 2005.
  • If you look at the front headlight of Dale Earnhradt Jr.'s #8 Oreo/Ritz car in the Busch Series, you will see a Richard Childress Racing logo. The signature above the driver's door is also not correct, because it appears to be Jeff Burton's signature and not Earnhardt Jr.'s
  • Bobby Hamilton Sr. drives the #18 Fastenal Truck in the game, despite being out of the truck since March 2006 (Atlanta) due to having head and neck cancer. Bobby Hamilton Jr. raced in the truck for the rest of the season. (Hamilton Sr would later die of the cancer symptions in January 2007. Ken Schrader drives the truck now in selected races.)
  • Four teams in the Busch Series use the same number while in game. They are Evernham's #9 Unilever/Ingersoll Rand Dodge (Jeremy Mayfield and Boris Said are the drivers), Penske's #39 Penske Rental/Alltel myCircle Dodge (Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman), Kevin Harvick's #33 Outdoor Channel/Old Spice Chevrolet (Ron Hornaday Jr. and Tony Stewart), and DEI's #8 Oreo/Bass Pro Shops Chevy (Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Martin Truex Jr.).
  • If you look closely on the left front of Bobby Hamilton's #18 truck, you will clearly see Dodge logos on the sides.
  • Most of the real drivers in NCTS are updated with the new Craftsman Truck Series logo while all of the fantasy drivers and screenshots in Victory Lane have the old logo. (NASCAR changed the NCTS logo in 2006 to standardise the design with the Nextel Cup Series logo.)
  • If you look closely on the cover of the game, you will see that the track that is being raced on is Lowe's Motor Speedway at the Coca-Cola 600. The driver order is as follows: Elliot Sadler, Jeff Green, Mark Martin, Johnny Sauter, Reed Sorenson (Target reverse scheme not in game), Jimmie Johnson, Greg Biffle, Brian Vickers, Jeff Burton, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards (not in game), Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., and Jeff Gordon.
  • Use the Nextel Cup Allstate Dodge and qualify or race on any track. If you look closely on the left front headlight, you will see the Evernham Motorsports logo.
  • The name of the Allstate driver, Hans Goode, is an intentional pun on Allstate's motto, "You're in good hands"
  • Paul Menard races full time on the Nextel Cup circuit in 2006 although in real life he only ran 7 races for a 2006 Rookie of the Year run. Menard is slated to run a full season in 2007.
  • While Bill Davis Racing's NNC car (Dave Blaney) is in the game, only one of the team's three trucks (Bill Lester's) is present. The other two, driven by Mike Skinner and Johnny Benson, are likely absent because of their Toyota sponsorship. Toyota signage has never appeared in an EA Sports NASCAR game, but is highly likely next year due to their entry in 2007 with the Camry. Both Davis and Michael Waltrip's race teams will run Toyota in 2007.
  • Kraig Kinser's team is incorrectly stated as Ginn Racing. At the time, Ginn Racing had only a driver development program with Kinser. The team should actually be Morgan-Dollar Motorsports, but their name as well as Dennis Setzer's name and truck are absent.
  • Some of the trucks, such as Erik Darnell and Bill Lester, ran unsponsored through most of 2006. Erik only had Woolrich on for a few races, mostly later in the season.
  • There are many visible errors in race names. The name change for O'Reilly Raceway Park had not taken place when the game was developed, and sponsor Kroger was not mentioned, despite being the only NASCAR sponsor in the Busch Series to have been on the same race for 25 years. During the victory lane sequence, its name is the IRP 200. Another scene is in the fall Phoenix Busch race where the race is incorrectly titled the Phoenix 200 when the race was sponsored by Arizona Travel. Also for the Stonebridgeracing.com 200,it says Dover 200 in victory lane screenshots.
  • There is an error in the milage for the Martinsville 250. The race lasts 118 laps at only 25% distance, suggesting that there was an error in the number of laps being programmed, as 1/4 of the true race distance (250 laps) suggests they may have thought the race was in kilometers.
  • In the Busch Series, Ryan Newman's #39 has the Alltel MyCircle scheme that was only on the car for one race.
  • Outback Steakhouse, McDonald's,and Hills Bros. Coffee are no longer available for a sponsor for the custom car garage.
  • Although there's no particular makes run in the Truck Series, Timothy Peters' and Scott Lagasse, Jr.'s trucks both carry Dodge sponsorship since Dodge is a sponsor in the game, as well as the Speedzone and Challenge modes.
  • Todd Kluever's 06 3M/Post-It Ford Fusion is the only Busch Series car that has an alternate paint scheme.
  • For some reason,the 101 Wal-Mart car(Always scheme) and Dale Earnhardt's car if you unlock them and look at the front end(on chase plates),they are the 2005 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, not the 2006 Monte Carlo SS.
  • On a pit stop under caution, if you come off of pit road first, the order of the cars on the restart is determined by the position of the stalls.
  • If you unlock Dale Earnhardt(Chase Plates)(50000 skill points) you will notice that his car has the NASCAR Winston Cup Series logo, not the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series logo.
  • The interactive crew chief feature is disabled in the Nextel All-Star Challenge
  • The Nextel All-Star Challenge is only in fight to the top mode.
  • On the console version, there is a track called Dodge Raceway Stadium. On the PSP version, it is called Tiburon Raceway Stadium. It also is behind Dockside on the track selection screen on the PSP version, suggesting that there was a last second change made.
  • In Fight to the Top Mode, if you get a contract to drive the number 10 for Evernham motorsports, it says the Stanley Tools Dodge in the Race Shop but you use the Valvoline sponsorship if you sign the contract.
  • If you look at the NASCAR Busch Series logo, it says "NASCAR National Series". However, the abbreviation is NBS.
  • Sometimes when you have front end damage and get hit from behind, the damage goes away.

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