NR2003 AutoStages v3 key features:
- Cup, Xfinity, and Craftsman Truck Series Championship Seasons - Simulate full seasons with each of NASCAR's three biggest series with unique season lengths and playoff formats for each.
- No Stage Cautions version - Run stage races without the caution flag at the end of each stage. Great for simulating NASCAR's 2023 regular season road course rules or just seeing how stage racing would work with longer green flag runs. No additional setup required.
- One .exe for three and four stage racing - AutoStages will only simulate four stages races at Charlotte night tracks - all other tracks will have three stages. All from one app.
- Better Cautions: Automatically toggles the "Rack Back to Cautions" option during the race to freeze the field after yellow flags and simulate modern caution procedures.
- Better Cautions: Automatic overtime rules are now included via the "Add Laps for Green-White-Checkers" option. Overtime is enabled if the race is under yellow on the second-to-last lap of a race, then disabled once the additional laps have been run and the race is complete.
If this is your first time installing the app, be sure to read the included README file!
My goals with v3 were to streamline the app and allow for the closest simulation of the 2024 season. I'm not ruling out creating a custom stage version in the future, but that was much lower priority than the additional season modes and Better Cautions options. My time to work on this is pretty limited these days.
The 2-stage version of AutoStages is not included with this build as it was the least used of the three. I also found that most people were only using the four stage version to simulate the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte, so I just combined 3 and 4. Less apps = less clutter.
I also made some under the hood tweaks and there should be some improvements for the "infinite caution" glitch that some of you were having. Can't promise that it will be perfect as I'm unable to test everything.
Hit me up with any feedback or issues! I plan on recording a quick video soon to walk through some of the new features.
