NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup is a great improvement over last year's somewhat tired Thunder 2004. Sure, the graphics and physics haven't changed, and this year's release beats you over the head with in-game advertising, but the enhanced career mode, online play, and other additions are more than worth the price of admission.

Players can develop their racing skills and intimidate their rivals on the track with all-new controls, and continue the action off the track with post-race confrontations, including opportunities to settle disputes with NASCAR stars by racing America's top production cars through city streets. Fans react to the drama, idolizing both NASCAR heroes and villains with every move, while owners and sponsors recognize talent and reward success.

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Your previous racing title Rally Trophy was highly respected by the fans of realistic racing sims, thanks to its physics. Do you expect the simulation crowd also to enjoy FlatOut which is more about action and crashes?

We were very happy to get so many loyal fans for Rally Trophy and for the positive feedback for the realism we tried to achieve in it. FlatOut is an evolution of the technology built for Rally Trophy and a full simulator system is an essential part of the game engine. Still, FlatOut is a different kind of game from Rally Trophy. FlatOut focuses on being fun and enjoyable for the first moment onward, and it leans more to the arcade genre than to the simulator genre. FlatOut is a lot of fun because you are able to demolish anything (cars, tyre walls, water barrels and buildings) and thus change the track for any subsequent lap! The game is alive on every lap and you never know what you are going to run into after the next corner!

What would you say to those people out there interested in modeling circuits for your sim?

Dive in! The technology in rFactor is the best that we have ever had a chance to work with. It opens up new possibilities and allows us to flex our creativity. Although with the power comes added complexity. The new pixel shaders and lighting means all new options to wrestle with, but the results you can achieve are well worth it. I think that modeling in rFactor is a large leap forward for the mod community and we are very excited about this aspect.

What is EuroRally Champion? Could you explain a little about the game?

EuroRally Champion is available on PlayStation 2 and PC. The game offers videogame-loving petrolheads a hardcore mixture of the purest, most authentic rally vehicle physics, with intensely demanding driving across challenging terrains, fused with the highest quality adrenaline-pumping arcade-style action. And all this for less than 20 UK Pounds.

This goes around to the right and is taken in second gear at 35mph. You then accelerate downhill towards Eau Rouge with a concrete wall to your right and no run off to your left (it is not surprising that Philippe Streiff and Stephan Bellof both lost their lives here a few years ago while David Coulthard sparked the biggest pile up in grand prix history here when he lost control here at the start of the 1998 race). Eau Rouge is the left right kink at the bottom and is taken in top gear and usually taken flat out in top gear in qualifying...