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Don't Advertise it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Quit selling the product if they cant produce it. The release has been changed 6 times now. This make you the seller look bad.

release date!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Does anyone know why they keep moving the release date back? If so please write a review and say why.

Release the product!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I would like to give you a review. This game has been scheduled to be released with 5 different release dates. I don't believe we will see it this year.

Couldn't get it to work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought the game as a gift so you know how I felt Christmas day when I installed the game, got ready to play and when the green flag dropped there I sat. The steering wouldn't work and the brake pedal thinks it's the gas pedal. I called tech support 2 times, was on hold forever(not a toll free call) and received 2 different answers as to why it wasn't working. To which neither worked. My system is a Pentium III with 128 Mg Ram amd 20G hard drive. I don't think that's the problem. I've tried 2 different wheels. First was a side winder and now I have a Logitech. It works with another game I have so I see no reason for it not to work. If anyone else can give a suggestion I would appreciate it. I really want to play this game.

Patience fellows pit rats.......

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Relax and have faith that the Ratbag crew puts perfection before quick sales.How many games have you bought only to have to spend two hours downloading a patch because it was promised to be on shelves before the bugs were worked out(F1 2000)?

A good game...but...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: October 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm about as hardcore sprint car fan as they come, being from Knoxville, Iowa, it's kinda hard not to be. Anyways, I played a demo of the game at Nationals back in August. I was happy with it, but it's not nearly as realistic as I'd like it to be. No pieces flying off the car after getting in a wreck? Driving through walls? Bumping and shoving with no real consequences? None of those are in my dictionary of a real simulation racing game. Don't get me wrong, I've been in eager anticipation for this game since late July, but I kind of feel let down. You make the call. I know it will sell well, but I feel jipped.

As close to the real thing without leaving your desktop.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Watched Saturday Night Thunder from ESPN? Ever wondered what it was like to go 160mph. then sling a car sideways? This game is as close to the real thing without having to get dirty at the track. I thought the graphics were very well thought out. True no parts fall-off but for a racing sim. game this thing cooks!

Demanding in more than one way...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

DTR Sprints, puts a capital "Q" on quirky. For whatever reason, some wheel and peddle combinations just don't make Sprints respond. But when you finally get your machine set up to Sprint's liking, be prepared for a battered ego -- unless you just happen to be in those 2-3% who can excel on any sim right out of the box. This sim will challenge you!

While anyone could drive around a track in the earlier DTR sim, Sprints will tax you, until you get the hang of it. Hit the throttle too hard and you'll end up in the wall. Close the throttle too hard and you'll end up in the wall. Do nothing at all and you'll end up in the wall. But spinter's steer with throttle and until you get your right foot coordinated, you'll -- you guessed it -- end up in the wall. For whatever reason, I found out I do better with a joy-stick than wheel-peddle... Go figure.

Oh well, it's fun and inexpensive. Graphics and compatibility seem to strain some computers, but, hey, it's cheap! ONe redeeming quality is that the basic setups work pretty good, so you don't have to start off being a mechanical genius too... Fun sim!

Post Script: With a better adapted (but cheaper) computer, most of my concerns went away. A wonderfully enjoyable sim, particularly considering that DTR Sprints is now widely available at discount stores for a very nominal price. The joystick still beats the wheel-peddle combination for me on the ¼ mile tracks. And a few tracks like Eldora and Hagerstown, where I'd really like to do much better, are still very challenging, but not because of the sim - I just can't drive. A few hours with this makes you want to dial up the WoO schedule and go watch the big-dogs run... Especially if you've got your sub-woofer cranked a tad.

Ratbag Blows the competition away with New Sprint Car Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: August 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This new game looks to be one of the best auto racing sims forthe PC around with super graphics and fast paced action like you were actully behind the wheel of a sprint car sliding sideways and if you happen to roll the car your in for a ride and the tracks are all so real such as KNOXVILLE,Iowa where the Amoco Knoxville Sprint Car Nationals are held in August and the game also has the famed Eldora Speedway in Ohio and 20+ other great tracks to try your skills at...

ComputerPlayer and Sprint Fan probably already own

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you like sprint cars and play computer games, this is a match made in heaven. The only thing I didn't like is that Manzanita is a quarter mile track in the game. I'm from Arizona, home of Manzanita, and it's a half mile! Outlaws get 15 second times here, not too bad, when they actually come, which is not too much any more, and Western World has lots of history. Manzy has history.

Knoxville, Eldora, Terre Haute, Williams Grove, Lernerville, and more are all there.

If you find yourself "mastering" racing games to the point it's boring, just try that with this one hard setting on "quick race" mode. If you take a turn too wide, they WILL pass you. You mess up, you lose. You try as hard as you can and don't make a mistake, you may keep up. No "running away" in that mode. If you have the original DTR game, you can race on the tracks in both games.

The graphics are decent for me, I have to set graphics on regular, otherwise the computer runs too slow. Graphics are okay, but if you have a fast computer you can set graphics on high and it will almost be like watching sprints on T.V.

For those who complain steering and driving is unrealistic, set your car up right and it will be. Put the shocks on "tie-down" on the left side, and "tie-up" on the right side, you will get the real effect of leaning to the left entering the turns, due to wind resistance on the wing. Set your wing forward on small tracks, so your front wheels will grip, and set it back on big tracks so you don't powerslide too much and rear tires will grip. Put too much stagger in, and you can't get out of a powerslide. Too little stagger, and you will head straight to the wall on sharp corners. Setting tires on "wear" will make tires blow out when you hit other cars. Use a low ("tall") final gears on big tracks, high gears (like 5.40) on small tracks to pick up out of the corners. No, parts don't fly off in crashes like in real life, they just stay on the car and bend. Not too big a deal.

The cusion is non-existent, that's about the only unrealistic thing I have seen in this game. Don't bother with the cusion, it doesn't hold you back or stop you from sliding.

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