CART Racing HQ - questionnaire, 15Q

[Dave_S]

1. How long have you been playing IndyCar Racing 2/Cart Racing ("ICR2")

2. What operating system are you running?

3. Which controller do you use to play the game with (Joystick/Wheel/Keyboard)

4. Which version of the program are you running? (Windows/DOS/DOS with VDMS/Rendition/Other) Has the game been modified in any way?

5. Do you use a customized player car? If so, who's your sponsor?

6. List any utilities you have used to modify tracks, cars, or the game itself.

7. Do you compete in IIRS or another series?

8. Have you ever played ICR2 multiplayer?

For the following 3 questions, choose your favorite tracks to drive in ICR2, not necessarily your favorites in real-life.
9. Favorite ICR2 road courses (pick 3)

10. Favorite ICR2 street circuits (pick 3)

11. Favorite ICR2 oval tracks (pick 3)

12. Do you ever use carsets based on the 2005 season, or earlier?

13. Whats your favorite carset?

14. Do you play any other open-wheel driving games?

15. Any other comments?

[Dave_S]

to start this off, here are my answers.

1. downloaded the demo in August '98, bought the full version a month later.

2. Win XP

3. Logitech MOMO wheel. I bought the MadCatz Andretti wheel in October '99, used it up until a year ago when the position potentiometer seized up, chewing up some other components. I hope to get the MadCatz wheel fixed sometime, and I'll sell the MOMO.

4. Windy.exe version of CART Racing, with the 35-gallon fuel tank modification, using the Windows 95 compatibility mode for win XP. I've downloaded the LED-style dashboards in the past, but not currently using one. I also have DOS CART (CR.EXE) installed; I like how it has a fullscreen replay viewer, and prefer its "drivers info" screen to view carsets.

5. not currently

6. WinMip, Cowtown Carset Manager, Horizons, SETOPTNS.EXE.

7. no

8. no

9. Red Rock, N99 Watkins Glen, Updated Road America

10. Norisring, Toronto '96

11. Night Atlanta, Indianapolis, Chicagoland

12. not regularly

13. undecided

14. played RFactor infrequently.. doesn't work with my new graphics card

[kalmekgc182]

1. my dad bought the original Icr- from 93 i think, and i was only like 8- and
i assume he bought icr2 when it came out....so probably off and on since its release-

2. Window 7...but all the colors are funky and i have to use direct draw...which
makes it very small

3. xbox 360 controller

4. ive added the digital dash, the extra pit guys the smoke and dirt stuff-
all sorts of carsets & tracks

5. I drive all kinds of customized painted cars...but the one i use the most is a
valvoline car that looks like gil deferrans 98' cart car

6. I use PSP9 to paint my cars and WINMIP 2 to get them in the game

7. i'd like to...whens the next race and where do i get the INFO for it-

8. unfortunatly not

9. watkinsglen converted from nascar...Mid-0... and that it...I stink at the road coarses
im much better with the street tracks-

10. grapich updated toronto...Updated Austrailia with all the track fixes...
longbeach 2005

11. N3 INDY with the 12 degree banking...Pheniox...Loudon

12. 2000 Cart car set with the realistic reynard and lola chassis

13. I enjoy quite a few-

14. f1 on PS3...f1 career challenge & and CART 97' for PS2...
Rfactor & GrandPrix legends fro PC

[Oli]

My answers:

1. I've started with ICR in 1993. I loved it at played it often. Then the 2nd part came out and I played that even more often :-).

2. What operating system are you running?
DOS in the beginning. Then Win95. Then XP. Now I have funking Win Vista. But ICR2 works when using DOSBOX.

3. Which controller do you use to play the game with (Joystick/Wheel/Keyboard)
I used the keyboar at start. Later I have bought different wheels of which some were worse and some are better.

4. Which version of the program are you running? (Windows/DOS/DOS with VDMS/Rendition/Other) Has the game been modified in any way?
normal DOS version

5. Do you use a customized player car? If so, who's your sponsor?
Various seasons, various sponsors

6. List any utilities you have used to modify tracks, cars, or the game itself.
different carsets; Lola1992-1995, Reynard carsets 1996-1999 (not sure about the year....)

7. Do you compete in IIRS or another series?
No

8. Have you ever played ICR2 multiplayer?
Yeh

For the following 3 questions, choose your favorite tracks to drive in ICR2, not necessarily your favorites in real-life.
9. Favorite ICR2 road courses (pick 3)
Laguna Seca
Elkhart Lake

10. Favorite ICR2 street circuits (pick 3)
Long Beach
Toronto (also Pavels new one!)
Vancouver (also Pavels new one!)

11. Favorite ICR2 oval tracks (pick 3)
SSW
Michigan (the old and Pavels new one!)
California (Pavels version)
Indy (pretty complicated to drive sometimes...)

12. Do you ever use carsets based on the 2005 season, or earlier?
Rarely

13. Whats your favorite carset?
Every set from the 1990s

14. Do you play any other open-wheel driving games?
No.

15. Any other comments?
Gotta go now.

[Bazmeister]

CART Racing HQ - questionnaire, 15Q

1. How long have you been playing IndyCar Racing 2/Cart Racing ("ICR2")
Since the late 90s.

2. What operating system are you running?
Windows Vista Basic.

3. Which controller do you use to play the game with (Joystick/Wheel/Keyboard)
Momo black wheel & Xbox 360 controller.

4. Which version of the program are you running? (Windows/DOS/DOS with VDMS/Rendition/Other) Has the game been modified in any way?
Dos with VDMS & dgVoodoo. No game modification.

5. Do you use a customized player car? If so, who's your sponsor?
Unsponsored car with Super Aguri team logos.

6. List any utilities you have used to modify tracks, cars, or the game itself.
ICR2Mgr, CRHQ, Winmip2, Doodat, 3doEdit, LpEdit & Trafo.

7. Do you compete in IIRS or another series?
No.

8. Have you ever played ICR2 multiplayer?
No.

For the following 3 questions, choose your favorite tracks to drive in ICR2, not necessarily your favorites in real-life.
9. Favorite ICR2 road courses (pick 3)
Riverside, Elkhart Lake & Portland (ICR2 version).

10. Favorite ICR2 street circuits (pick 3)
Bicentennial Park, Long Beach (short course) & Toronto.

11. Favorite ICR2 oval tracks (pick 3)
Kentucky (Pavel69 version), Disney (Pavel69 version), Michigan (ICR2 version).

12. Do you ever use carsets based on the 2005 season, or earlier?
Shaggy's 2005 Champcar World Series set.

13. Whats your favorite carset?
Any early to mid-90s Lola carset & Tom Smith's 1999 CART set.

14. Do you play any other open-wheel driving games?
Papyrus' Grand Prix Legends, Microprose's GP2, EA's Andretti Racing on Playstation One.

15. Any other comments?
There is no $???X in the champagne room. None.

[Pavel 69]

1. How long have you been playing IndyCar Racing 2/Cart Racing ("ICR2")
Since 2006
2. What operating system are you running?
WinXP
3. Which controller do you use to play the game with (Joystick/Wheel/Keyboard)
First was Wingman Formula Gp wheel. Now I use Logitech G25.
4. Which version of the program are you running? (Windows/DOS/DOS with VDMS/Rendition/Other) Has the game been modified in any way?
I use Dos version with VDMSound. I use different sounds for IRL and CART.
5. Do you use a customized player car? If so, who's your sponsor?
Never tried to paint my car.
6. List any utilities you have used to modify tracks, cars, or the game itself.
WinMip, 3doEditor, Rpy2LP, Lpeditor, DooDat, PaintShop, Hexeditor, convertors from NL/N3/N99/N2 to Icr2, Sandbox, points editor, setoptns, Cowtown Manager and others
7. Do you compete in IIRS or another series?
No, but want sometimes
8. Have you ever played ICR2 multiplayer?
No
It's hard for me to choose tracks that I like the most. It always the tracks that I worke on
9. Favorite ICR2 road courses (pick 3)
Watkins Glen (all varsions), Elkhart Lake, Mid Ohio
10. Favorite ICR2 street circuits (pick 3)
Houston , Long Beach, Vancouver
11. Favorite ICR2 oval tracks (pick 3)
Indianapolis (my versions), Nazareth, ... Icr2 has so many ovals that it's hard to choose
12. Do you ever use carsets based on the 2005 season, or earlier?
I use all from time to time.
13. Whats your favorite carset?
Indycar 1995 (Lola1995)
14. Do you play any other open-wheel driving games?
Yes. GPL mostly, Icr1, F1 Challenge 99-02, Indycar Series, Indianapolis 500, GP1, GP2
15. Any other comments?
Gentelmen, start your engines!

[Frank Dux]

1. How long have you been playing IndyCar Racing 2/Cart Racing ("ICR2")

I bought ICR2 in 1996, when released in Brazil. I played so much in late 90's, when it was almost impossible download utilities, carsets, there was only original tracks or N1 converted tracks.

2. What operating system are you running?

Windows XP

3. Which controller do you use to play the game with (Joystick/Wheel/Keyboard)

I use the Leadership Wireless Steering Wheel, with analogic pedals.

4. Which version of the program are you running? (Windows/DOS/DOS with VDMS/Rendition/Other) Has the game been modified in any way?

DOS with VDMS

5. Do you use a customized player car? If so, who's your sponsor?

Yeah, I use the Menards/STP/Energizer #2 Car, painted by Kalmekgc192.

6. List any utilities you have used to modify tracks, cars, or the game itself.

Only WinMIP. I don't know edit tracks...

7. Do you compete in IIRS or another series?

Yeah, I compete in IIRS, but in last races I couldn't run. In 1998, I competed in SIRL (Only one race, Charlotte when I started in 12th and finished in 7th) and Green Flag Series.

8. Have you ever played ICR2 multiplayer?

Yes, I did. But only head to head by USRobotics dial modem. I expected that it will be possible do it with internet connections...

For the following 3 questions, choose your favorite tracks to drive in ICR2, not necessarily your favorites in real-life.
9. Favorite ICR2 road courses (pick 3)

NL Riverside, Sears Point and Portland

10. Favorite ICR2 street circuits (pick 3)

Vancouver, Long Beach 2005.

11. Favorite ICR2 oval tracks (pick 3)

N3 Indy, N1 Rockingham, N2 Milwaukee and Motegi (My just pole-position in IIRS).

12. Do you ever use carsets based on the 2005 season, or earlier?

No, i prefer early 90's CART carsets (by Oliver Karaula), and 1995 Indy 500, and 1997 IRL.

13. Whats your favorite carset?

Indy 500 1992 Carset by Oliver Karaula

14. Do you play any other open-wheel driving games?

I still playing the old Papy's games like ICR, N1 (I like too, I guees that I only person in the world that still playing these games), Indy500 the Simulation, SODA Racing. I playing GP2 too (Very popular in Brazil)...The newer games, I play rFactor and N2003.

15. Any other comments?
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ICR2 Forever...Just it.

[Tjerk]

1. How long have you been playing IndyCar Racing 2/Cart Racing ("ICR2")
When it was released. I had been driving ICR1 before that.

2. What operating system are you running?
At the moment Windows Vista on my laptop and Arch Linux on my mini PC.

3. Which controller do you use to play the game with (Joystick/Wheel/Keyboard)
Keyboard

4. Which version of the program are you running? (Windows/DOS/DOS with VDMS/Rendition/Other) Has the game been modified in any way?
Dos version using DOSbox on my laptop.

5. Do you use a customized player car? If so, who's your sponsor?
Not anymore, I used to drive cars where my employer was the sponsor, so I ran a TNT Post car throughout my IIRS seasons.

6. List any utilities you have used to modify tracks, cars, or the game itself.
Just about all of them. From modifying carshapes with Marcello Bassino's tools to scratchbuilt tracks with the N3 Sandbox.

7. Do you compete in IIRS or another series?
I raced in the IIRS for a couple of seasons. Very enjoyable and I even won a couple of pole positions.

8. Have you ever played ICR2 multiplayer?
Never.

9. Favorite ICR2 road courses (pick 3)
Road America, Watkins Glen with the boot, most of the Sears Point versions

10. Favorite ICR2 street circuits (pick 3)
I don't particularly like street tracks so i will pick one: Toronto.

11. Favorite ICR2 oval tracks (pick 3)
N3 Indy, N3 Indy and N3 Indy.

12. Do you ever use carsets based on the 2005 season, or earlier?
I race all kinds of carsets just for fun and to enjoy the great work by all our past and present painters.

13. Whats your favorite carset?
I don't have a favourite, but if I had to pick one it would be one of the Reynard Group carsets. Insanely high quality in carshape and paintwork that was really a huge leap forward for ICR2 realism and quality.

14. Do you play any other open-wheel driving games?
At the moment I only play rFactor.

15. Any other comments?
These questions were a nice idea :-)

[Wolf_pd]

1. Since 2002

2. Started with Win98, now have both WinXp and WinVista functional

3. Keyboard for trackediting, wheel for racing

4. DOS, no changes. With the Windy version I used on Win98 pretty much every possible changes was used

5. I drive the #66 Irn Bru Dallara Honda since 2003

6. Worked on trackediting, painting, so used pretty much all available tools.

7. Yes

8. Yes

For the following 3 questions, choose your favorite tracks to drive in ICR2, not necessarily your favorites in real-life.
9. Watkins Glen boot, Elkhart Lake, Edmonton

10. Bicentennial, St Petersburg, Meadowlands

11. Dover, California, N3 Phoenix

12. Yes, when painting cars

13. IRL2004 by Brent Blackburn

14. Rfactor

[MacRacing]

1. How long have you been playing IndyCar Racing 2/Cart Racing ("ICR2")
Started playing ICR2 right after buying it from a Wal-Mart in Tuscaloosa, AL in '96.

2. What operating system are you running?
I might be the only guy on the board who's running ICR2 on a Mac!! I can run it in OS 9 without any trouble. Running under OS X has been more difficult - but I'm working on it...

3. Which controller do you use to play the game with (Joystick/Wheel/Keyboard)
Still using an old Thrustmaster T2 to race with.

4. Which version of the program are you running? (Windows/DOS/DOS with VDMS/Rendition/Other) Has the game been modified in any way?
Mac version 1.0.1.

5. Do you use a customized player car? If so, who's your sponsor?
Yes - Planters Peanuts!! Long story coming...

Back when I was racing in an ICR2, I had a teammate offer to paint a car for me. My hometown has a peanut processing plant, and the area is known for peanut farming, so I wanted something related to that. Within a week, he had painted a sweet light-blue Planters car that I still run today.

6. List any utilities you have used to modify tracks, cars, or the game itself.
Just a Hex editor to get all of those nice Windows ICR2 carsets working on the Mac side of the house...

7. Do you compete in IIRS or another series?
I used to compete in, and eventually run, the old MacRacing ICR2 series. Competed from '97-'04, ran it from '99 on.

8. Have you ever played ICR2 multiplayer?
Just once! But it was a blast. Connected with my MacRacing teammate at the time (who was living in New Hampshire) via modem. Back in the day when 28.8 was fast! We had a hard time keeping the connection working, but we were able to run a couple of laps at Sears Point together.

9. Favorite ICR2 road courses (pick 3)
Tough question... Road America, Desert Winds, and Bull Run 2K.

10. Favorite ICR2 street circuits (pick 3)
Long Beach, Toronto, and Vancouver (with Norisring a VERY close 4th).

11. Favorite ICR2 oval tracks (pick 3)
Indy, Nazareth, and Milwaukee.

12. Do you ever use carsets based on the 2005 season, or earlier?
Yes.

13. Whats your favorite carset?
A GTP carset created by a friend from the MacRacing league for a 6-hour team endurance race that divided the field into faster prototypes and slower GTs. All of the cars had the same body shape, but the GTs had a different color of brakelights. And the prototypes were VERY fast! Normal settings of strength would put me between 7th and 10th overall. Lots of fun.

14. Do you play any other open-wheel driving games?
VGP2 and VGP3, but only sparingly.

15. Any other comments?
I have to thank two groups of people - the guys who put ICR2 together back in the day, and the folks who continue to produce such fantastic material for it. The original developers made a game that has really stood up well with time. Even my six-year-old son likes it! And the mod community has added so much more to ICR2 than I could have ever imagined back in '97. Kudos to all of you!