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DIRT TRACK RACING

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Version: .50
System: PC
Gene: Racing
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Speeding down the straight-aways and sliding through the corners, you jockey
for position in the middle of the pack. Pushing the groove as you
white-knuckle the last turn and slingshot past the leader toward the flying
checked flag.

**1**-Goal
**2**-Main Menu
**3**-Game Menu
**4**-Game Structure
**5**-Flags
**6**-Controls
**7**-Options
**8**-Car Tuning
**9**-Tuning
**10**-The Groove
**11**-Credits
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**1**
GOAL

Dirt Track Racing (DTR) simulates a dirt track racing career over several
years. You start the game with $1000. You buy a cheap car and enter in the
lowest class of competition, the Stock class. Win prize money and attract
sponsorship to finance your racing career, allowing you to repair and
upgrade your vehicle and purchase new ones. You must manage your money
carefully as you work your way through the Stock Class and then the faster
Pro Stock Class. Your ultimate goal is to run a professional late model team
and win the Ratbag Grand National Series.

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**2**
MAIN MENU

Game-Access to Single Player games, Career and Quick race.

Multiplayer-Play DTR against other drivers.

Options-Configure you video, sound, game, or input setups.

High Scores-View the fastest times and season earnings.

Replay Intro.-Watch the Ratbag and DTR video footage.

Credits-See who contributed to DTR.

Exit-Quit back to windows.

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**3**
GAME MENU

Quick Race
-Select Quick Race if you would like to race without following a career
progression. This mode was designed to allow you to choose a track, the
number and difficulty of opponents, a car, and then race. The AI Difficulty
slider allows you to select the intelligence level of your opponents. The
Track Wetness slider allows you to adjust the traction levels around the
track.

Career
-In this mode you start off as an amateur driver with limited funds. Your
final goal is to win the Ratbag Series. To do this you will need to purchase
a car, participate in events from various series using prize money to
upgrade and improve your vehicle until you can race amongst the fastest and
best drivers the game has to offer.

Career Menu
-Race
Enter a new series, continue racing, or gave a practice drive.

-Car Options
Go to your garage or visit the shop.

-Sponsorships
Check for sponsorship offers.

-Career Information
Check the race schedule, point's standings or view your career highlights.

-Save Game
Save your game to disk so that you can continue playing at some other time.

-Options
Change your configuration for DTR.

-Exit
Quit from career mode.

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**4**
Game Structure

Series
-Series are collections of events held throughout the year. Each series is
aimed at a particular class of car and other car types will not be permitted
to race. Each event will award a certain number of championship points
dependent upon your performance at that event. The total championship points
awarded to you by the end of the year will determine your overall result for
the series.

The series with the lowest prize money in each class are the easiest. You
should race in these events to upgrade your car. Then you can enter in
richer, more difficult series where the opponent's race similarly upgraded
vehicles.

Car Classes
-Cars are divided into three classes in DTR. They are Stock, Pro Stock, and
Late Model. Each type of car is only eligible for an event for that series
of car.

Stock cars are bought in junkyards. Pro stock cars can be purchased at the
car dealer and Late Model cars can be bought in the race shop. Stock cars
don't have any high performance parts. You can upgrade these cars to enter
them into the Pro Stock series.

Events
-When you enter a race in DTR career mode, you are entering an event. Events
are parts of series and involve a collection of races that are geld over one
or more days. Each event will only allow cars of the particular class as
listed in each event.

Practice
-Practicing provides you with an opportunity to check how your car drives on
each track before qualifying so you can make any last minute changes to your
car.

Qualifying
-The result of your qualifying times determines your grid starting order for
Heat and Main events. You can elect to skip qualifying, but you will be
assigned to slowest qualifying time and forego the chance to receive prize
money awarded to the fastest qualifying time.

Heats
-You will be allocate a heat and placed on the starting grid according
reverse qualifying times.

Mains
-Mains are the final rounds of racing.

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**5**
FLAGS

Green Flag
-The green flag is shown at the beginning of the race. It is also shown
after yellow flags to indicate that it is safe to drive at full speed.

Black Flag
-The black flag is shown when you are disqualified from the race. If you get
a black flag for going of course the race will begin where you went of the
course.

Yellow Flag
-The yellow flag is shown when car is damaged to the point that it's no
longer fit to drive, and must be tooken of the track. At this time the cars
are forced to slow down while the car is being moved. You will regain speed
when the green flag is shown.

White Flag
-On the start of your last lap the white flag is shown to indicate you have
only one lap to go.

Checkered Flag
-The checkered flag is shown when you finish the race. When another car
finishes before you you are allowed to finish your current lap.

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**6**
CONTROLS

Keyboard Controls

Turn Left- Left Arrow
Turn Right- Right Arrow
Accelerate- Up Arrow
Brake- Down Arrow
Change Gear Up- X Button
Change Gear Down- Z Button
Half Lock Steering- Left Shift
Quit- Escape Key
Pause- Pause Key
Change View- Space Bar
Rear View Mirror- F4
Display Toggle- F3

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**7**
OPTIONS

Video Options
-These options allow you to tweak the visual appearance of the game.
Selecting lower resolutions and disabling features can improve performance:
although you should be aware that the game will not look as good.

Audio Options
-The audio options let you select the in game sound effect volume and to
toggle crowd sounds, announcers and game interface sounds.

Game Options
-The game options include the following:

Event Format
-Detailed events include practice phase and results for all other races

Damage
-Simulation is the highest level of damage. Arcade damage setting is more
forgiving. Selecting off can also disable damage.

Yellow/Black Flags
-These flags can be on or off

Transmission
-Select manual or automatic transmission.

Auto Reverse
-When enabled, the car is put into reverse gear automatically when the brake
is applied.

Vehicle Handling
-This allows you to choose how the car handles on the track.

Cockpit Jitter
-This turns off the cockpit Jitter than results from racing over the uneven
dirt track.

Watertruck
-Disabling this option will prevent the Watertruck video form being
displayed.