NASCAR New Years Eve Spectacular

Reference to a fictional Nascar race created by Tyler and brought to life on the Pringleson Youtube channel. The series officially kicked off on August 8th, 2021, and is ongoing. Each video consists of Tyler commentating over footage of a simulated Nascar race in the PC game NR2003. After he caught up to 2021 Tyler started streaming the races every New Years Eve, which is still continuing.

The idea for this fictional race started way back in 2018 when Tyler got the idea to create a fictional all winners exhibition Nascar race. All the winners from that season, including any other exhibition races would be eligable, as well as any past winners of the event. Tyler originally set the length to 75 laps, and had it set at Daytona International Speedway. Tyler originally just created the event to start at 2001 and go to present, but eventually expanded it to 1992, then back to 1984.

Soon after the idea cultivated Tyler wanted to bring the event to life through his Youtube channel, a now private video was made in 2019 discussing the idea. To actually bring it to life he needed the PC game NR2003, a racing game that also could run simulations and was modded to stay relevant almost 2 decades later. To play the game he needed a PC, something he couldn't afford at the time, so the idea laid dormant for a while.

In January 2021 Tyler finally got a PC, and soon after got NR2003. Almost immediately he got to work installing the necessary mods and creating the rosters, where he ran into his first problem. While there were mods for 1984-1987 rosters, they refused to work on Tyler's game, so he had to axe them from the list. Once the remainders were set up Tyler then got familiar with recording, where he ran into his second problem. NR2003 could only run in full screen, so Tyler could have no other applications open when NR2003 was, and with no second monitor at the time, recording wasn't possible. Tyler decided to collect raw footage of each race and then do voiceover commentary for them when he got his second monitor, and thus the process began.

Eventually Tyler did get his second monitor and began the voiceover process. Most the the races he commentated himself and because of that, it got pretty boring. It was also at this time Tyler ran into another major issue, not all of the raw footages were saved. 1989, 1991-93, 1999, 2003 and the 2009 races weren't saved. Tyler didn't want to have to redo the whole thing, so in the description of the next available race, he summarized what happened in the previous one.

The first race, set in 1988, was uploaded on August 8th, 2021, with Ricky Rudd winning. Races would be uploaded every Sunday and Wednesday until the backlog was cleared up until 2020 was uploaded. Brian came on to help commentate 2016-2020, allowing for more entertaining dynamic during some of the dead parts of the racing, as there weren't many crashes. 1988-1997 were set in the daytime, while 1998-present were set at night, this had no effect on the actual race itself and other than that, none of the scenery changes from race to race. The 2020 race was uploaded on November 7th, 2020, ending the prerecorded backlog, the 2021 race is set to be streamed live on New Years Eve 2021, with a tentative 8PM start.

Most of the races are viewable on the Pringleson Youtube channel to this day.