| NASCAR Heat 5 |
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Developer: 704Games This game has unused playable characters. |
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NASCAR Heat 5 is the final iteration of 704Games/Motorsport Games' iteration of the NASCAR Heat series, released rather quickly (with additions being restricted to addition of car failures and testing schemes) so they could prepare for another reboot, which in a repeat of transition to NASCAR 15 to NASCAR Heat Evolution, ended disastrously yet again, to the point a 2022 season DLC had to be released for this and the reboot title.
A Nintendo Switch port, titled NASCAR Heat Ultimate Edition+, was released in November 2021, with the addition of 2021 NASCAR Cup Series primary paint schemes. In June 2023, the 2022 Cup roster and an updated version of the previously Xtreme Dirt Tour-exclusive Bristol Dirt track was finally released (having been planned for October 2022), despite being about halfway into the next year's season...
Contents
- 1 Unused Drivers
- 1.1 Cup Series
- 1.2 NASCAR Heat Pro League
- 1.3 Xfinity Series
- 1.4 Camping World Truck Series
- 2 Unused Paint Schemes
- 2.1 Kyle Larson
- 3 Revisional Differences
- 3.1 Matt Kenseth's Driver Model
Unused Drivers
A number of unused drivers can be found in NASCARHeat5_Data/StreamingAssets/PC/AssetBundles/CarAppearances/ folder, in form of .rab (Unity asset) files. For most part, most of them contain placeholder paint schemes that are used in pre-race crew-chief/driver meeting videos shown before races, like one here. (These videos, which for the 2021 season and some 2020 races were rendered from iRacing instead, are generally not available to general public, except in 2018 when NASCAR uploaded them to their YouTube channel; additionally, NASCAR journalist Bob Pockrass also occasionally tweets snippets of them, usually when it comes to controversial yellow line/track limits rule at races held at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway.)
Cup Series
| File | Driver | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| default_c17_bobby_labonte.rab | Bobby Labonte | Has not driven in the Cup Series since 2016. Possibly a scrapped legend driver, in which he would have been representing the #18 Interstate Batteries car in a Toyota (Joe Gibbs Racing's current manufacturer), as his car is a Toyota (he would be added as such in a DLC for NASCAR 21: Ignition); however, his pit textures has the number 47, which is a reference to his 2011-2013 run with JTG Daugherty Racing, which at the time also ran Toyotas. |
| default_c17_brennan_poole.rab | Brennan Poole | Drove for Premium Motorsports during the 2020 season; replaced with fantasy driver Bobby Carter as 704Games/Motorsport Games was unable to obtain the license from his team. |
| default_c17_jamie_mcmurray.rab | Jamie McMurray | Did not drive in the Cup Series during the 2020 season; drove part-time for Spire Motorsports the season prior. |
| default_c17_landon_cassill.rab | Landon Cassill | Did not drive in the Cup Series during the 2020 season; drove for StarCom Racing the season prior. He appears in the 2022 DLC update, likely with different files. |
| default_c17_matt_tifft.rab | Matt Tifft | Did not drive in the Cup Series during the 2020 season; drove for Front Row Motorsports the season prior until Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas due to health concerns. |
| default_c17_parker_kligerman.rab | Parker Kligerman | Did not drive in the Cup Series during the 2020 season; drove part-time for Gaunt Brothers Racing the season prior. |
| default_c17_paul_menard.rab | Paul Menard | Did not drive in the Cup Series during the 2020 season; drove for Wood Brothers Racing the season prior. |
| default_c17_reed_sorenson.rab | Reed Sorenson | Drove part-time for various teams during the 2020 season. |
default_c17_jj_yeley.rab (J.J. Yeley) was originally unused, but later used for a DLC car that was sponsored by the game itself.
NASCAR Heat Pro League
NASCAR Heat Pro League drivers are treated as Cup Series drivers and as such are stored together with them.
| File | Driver | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| default_c17_casey_gomme.rab | Casey Gomme | Was not chosen for 2020 eNASCAR Heat Pro League draft; represented Wood Brothers Racing in the 2019 season on Xbox side. |
| default_c17_greg_matarazzo.rab | Greg Matarazzo | Was not chosen for 2020 eNASCAR Heat Pro League draft; represented Chip Ganassi Racing in the 2019 season on Xbox side. |
| default_c17_josh_shoemaker.rab | Josh Shoemaker | Was not chosen for 2020 eNASCAR Heat Pro League draft; represented Stewart-Haas Racing in the 2019 season on Xbox side. |
Xfinity Series
| File | Driver | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| default_x17_christopher_bell.rab | Christopher Bell | Did not drive in the Xfinity Series during the 2020 season; drove for Joe Gibbs Racing the season prior. |
| default_x17_cole_custer.rab | Cole Custer | Did not drive in the Xfinity Series during the 2020 season; drove for Stewart-Haas Racing the season prior. |
| default_x17_elliott_sadler.rab | Elliott Sadler | Did not drive in the Xfinity Series during the 2020 season; drove twice for Kaulig Racing the season prior. |
| default_x17_joey_gase.rab | Joey Gase | Drove sporadically for three different teams during the 2020 season. |
| default_x17_john_jackson.rab | John Jackson | Drove for Rick Ware Racing (#51 and #53; both numbers would switch between Chevrolet and Ford) for most of the 2020 season, as well as one race in the Tommy Baldwin Racing #7 Chevrolet. |
| default_x17_mario_gosselin.rab | Mario Gosselin | Had not driven in the Xfinity Series since 2017, although he returned in 2021. |
| default_x17_morgan_shepherd.rab | Morgan Shepherd | Did not drive in the Xfinity Series during the 2020 season; drove for his owner-driver team, Shepherd Racing Ventures #89 Chevrolet, part-time the season prior. |
| default_x17_stephen_leicht.rab | Stephen Leicht | Drove for Carl Long's MBM Motorsports, alternating between #66, #61 (also used by Austin Hill by Hattori Racing Enterprises), and #13 (all of them in a Toyota) for most of the 2020 season. |
| default_x17_tyler_reddick.rab | Tyler Reddick | Did not drive in the Xfinity Series during the 2020 season; drove for Richard Childress Racing the season prior. |
| default_x17_zane_smith.rab | Zane Smith | Did not drive in the Xfinity Series during the 2020 season; drove part-time for Dale Earnhardt Jr's JR Motorsports the season prior. |
Camping World Truck Series
| File | Driver | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| default_t17_dylan_lupton.rab | Dylan Lupton | Drove the #17 DGR-Crosley Ford part-time for last three races during the season. |
| default_t17_harrison_burton.rab | Harrison Burton | Did not drive in the Truck Series during the 2020 season; drove for Kyle Busch Motorsports the season prior, in his only full-time Truck Series season. |
| default_t17_korbin_forrister.rab | Korbin Forrister | Drove the #7 (as well as the #17 at Talladega) All Out Motorsports Toyota part-time during the season. |
| default_t17_kyle_benjamin.rab | Kyle Benjamin | Did not drive in the Truck Series during the 2020 season; drove for Niece Motorsports part-time the season prior. |
| default_t17_mason_massey.rab | Mason Massey | Did not drive in the Truck Series during the 2020 season; drove for Reaume Brothers Racing part-time the season prior. |
| default_t17_myatt_snider.rab | Myatt Snider | Did not drive in the Truck Series during the 2020 season; drove for ThorSport Racing part-time the season prior. |
| default_t17_parker_kligerman.rab | Parker Kligerman | Drove the #75 Henderson Motorsports Chevrolet part-time during the 2020 season. Kligerman is the only driver to have unused files in more than one series. |
| default_t17_travis_kvapil.rab | Travis Kvapil | Did not drive in the Truck Series during the 2020 season; drove for Beaver Motorsports for one race the season prior. |
| default_t17_tyler_dippel.rab | Tyler Dippel | Did not drive in the Truck Series during the 2020 season; last drove in 2018. |
Unused Paint Schemes
| To do: Dump the placeholder schemes. Worcestershirey from the Discord server formerly affiliated with /r/NASCAR has rips of generic Cup Toyota (under Bobby Labonte) and generic Cup Ford (under J.J. Yeley before Yeley's car sponsored by this very game was added). |
A handful of unused paint schemes can be found within the unused driver .rab files. Most of them are simply placeholders.
Kyle Larson
Found in alternate_c17_kyle_larson.rab. Due to Larson being switched out with Matt Kenseth early on in the season, and Kenseth never running this scheme, it goes unused. It should be noted that Kenseth's files are all otherwise labeled as Larson's.
Revisional Differences
Matt Kenseth's Driver Model
Somewhere around the July 21/August 13, 2020 patch, Matt Kenseth's driver model was updated to actually use his driver model, instead of Larson's. Kenseth's driver model is directly taken from NASCAR Heat 2, as it has DeWalt logos (Kenseth's 2017 primary sponsor) on his hat.
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