NASCAR The Game: Inside Line - Daytona Setup - 200-202 MPH For Daytona Night or Daytona Day

This is the best setup I have for running 200-202 MPH at Daytona in NASCAR The Game: Inside Line. This setup assumes you have downloaded the patch, and have read my Talladega Setup Tutorial to understand WTF is going on here. It is optimized for the faster Daytona night race conditions, where you have more grip and higher speeds. It will work well for the Daytona 500 day time conditions, where it will be a bit slower but bottom out and spark a bit less.

Daytona is a plate track similar to Talladega. However, Daytona is slightly shorter than Talladega, and it is more narrow. In a game like NTG:IL, you can get away with an ill handling car at a wide track like Talladega so long as you are fast, but when things narrow up at Daytona, handling becomes more essential. With that in mind, I try to preserve the speed advantage provided by having your nose raised on the straights, but press that nose back down to the track in the corners.

Raising the nose may be fast, but if you don't find a way to get it back down in the turns,

you're going to have a hell of a time in those fast-but-narrow Daytona corners.

Also, I err a bit more on the safer side with the back of the car bottoming out, since there's less room to slide up the track when it does. Either way, start from here and see how you like it. As always, I encourage you to experiment to make it fit your own driving style.

Front Left:
Cold Pressure: 35
Camber: 8
Caster: 6

Front Right:
Cold Pressure: 65
Camber: -8
Caster: 6

Rear Left:
Pressure: 35
Camber: 1.8

Rear Right:
Pressure: 65
Camber: -1.8


Front Toe-In: -1/4
Left Rear Toe In: -1/4
Right Rear Toe In: 1/16

Suspension:

Front Left:
Ride Height: 10.0
Bump: 71
Rebound: 45
Spring: 350

Front Right:
Ride Height: 10.0
Bump: 71
Rebound: 19
Spring: 400

Rear Left:
Ride Height: 5.5
Bump: 69
Rebound: 14
Spring: 490
Trackbar: 4.7
Rubber: YES

Rear Right:
Ride Height: 5.6
Bump: 69
Rebound: 14
Spring: 700
Track Bar: 4.7
Rubber: YES

Drivetrain and Aero:
Gearing: Cog B

Brake Bias: 59
Steering Lock: 14

Aero

Tape: 100%
Front Splitter: 2.0

Front Bias: 53
Left Bias: 52
Wedge: Whatever it says

Front & Rear Sway Bar:
Front: 800
Rear:  450

Richard Petty STP 43 Pontiac Paint Scheme - NASCAR The Game: Inside Line

The latest paint scheme I've been working on for NASCAR The Game: Inside Line is a version of the STP Pontiac Grand Prix. Specifically, I'm focusing on a version like the 43 that Richard Petty drove in his final seasons. I kinda overdid it on the STP logo though, going for the older, wavier look. I might wind up changing that. The Pontiac logo is very easy to create. Making the layered stripes was a bit more of a pain than I thought it would be, particularly where they meet each other.

There are still details I think I'll add. In his final season, Pepsi was an associate sponsor, Pontiac had a vertical logo on the B post, and Uniden was on the C post. The Richard Petty fan appreciation tour logo would be a project of its own. For now, I just have STP on the back. There is still grill and headlight work to do to make it look more like the Pontiacs. I'm also using the default number tool. The real one is more compressed. After that, adding a gradient to the red-orange on the bottom sides might give it shadowing that looks like the older cars.

Also, the game is limited, in that I can't continue the red stripe that goes down the middle onto the rear spoiler, breaking the line from above and behind. Still, I thought the car was close enough to share my progress: