{"id":325158,"date":"2025-10-23T00:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325158\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T00:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:37:12","slug":"is-nascar-25-the-game-weve-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325158\/","title":{"rendered":"Is NASCAR 25 The Game We’ve Been Waiting For?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been almost four years since the last NASCAR licensed video game was released to consoles. <\/p>\n

In some opinions, it\u2019s been even longer since a true game worthy of the NASCAR brand has been released.<\/p>\n

Since then, the NASCAR gaming industry has largely subsided to the world of sim-racing on iRacing, but the large changes that have occurred within the world of NASCAR haven\u2019t been available on console platforms.<\/p>\n

\"2025<\/p>\n

Stock Car Scoop: Missed Opportunities & Chase Briscoe Brilliance<\/p>\n

Until now. <\/p>\n

So, after four years, is the iRacing-developed and Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/a>-approved NASCAR 25 the game that NASCAR video game fans have been wanting for years?<\/p>\n

Take a watch at our commentary video to dive in and find out. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Donate<\/a>
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

NASCAR At Track Coordinator\u00a0at\u00a0Frontstretch<\/p>\n

Dalton Hopkins began writing for Frontstretch in April 2021. Currently, he is the lead writer for the weekly Thinkin’ Out Loud column, co-host of the\u00a0Frontstretch Happy Hour podcast,\u00a0and one of our lead reporters. Beforehand, he wrote for IMSA shortly after graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2019. Simultaneously, he also serves as a Captain in the US Army.<\/p>\n

Follow Dalton on Twitter @PitLaneCPT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been almost four years since the last NASCAR licensed video game was released to consoles. In some…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":325159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-325158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115420689514930332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}