CART Racing Headquarters
Welcome to CART Racing Headquarters! We are a small but active community centered around one of the best racing simulators ever released: Indycar Racing 2!
On our website you can download a large amount of carsets and tracks released over the years, as well as numerous tools and utilites to improve your game. If you have a question about the game, for example how to run it on modern computers, you are of course very welcome to join our forum!
About Indycar Racing 2
Released by Papyrus Design Group in 1995, Indycar Racing 2 (also known as ICR2) simulates the 1995 season of the Indycar World Series with realistic car handling and competitive racing. Now about 3 decades old the game can still count on an active community creating new software, carsets and tracks for the game on a regular basis.
The game saw a couple of re-releases, for example upgrading it from a pure DOS game to a Windows specific version, changing the name to CART Racing in the process to reflect the real world changes at the time. There was also a special rendition version that took advantage of rendition video cards, as well as a Mac release.
Some more information about the various releases of the game can be found on its Wikipedia article.
With specific tools created by the community itself, very realistic and beautiful carsets are now available. And using the tools that Papyrus originally used to create the NASCAR Racing 3 tracks, wonderful and very detailed tracks can be built from scratch. All these great additions to your game can be found in The Archive. Take a look at the Track tutorials if you would like to learn how to build your own favourite fantasy or real life tracks from scratch.
How to play this vintage simulation
Getting the game to run on modern hardware is easier than you might think, because there have been some major developments for the game in the past few years:
- RReady provides a software wrapper for ICR2, that emulates Rendition hardware on modern computers in conjunction with DOSbox. The game will look amazing with HD graphics and up to 60 fps. Use this install guide by GPLaps.
- It used to be pretty much impossible to run the Windows version of ICR2 called CART Racing on modern Windows versions. That was until Hatcher released his patch Second Wind. It even supports wide and ultra wide screens now. Use this install guide by GPLaps.
- The ICR2 FFB app by GPLaps will add Force Feedback to ICR2 on wheels that support it.
How to get the game
If you have always been a fan of ICR2, chances are you might still have the disc somewhere. If you don't, then finding a hard copy of it will be very difficult. Luckily for you the install guides linked above also contain links to full versions fo the game for DOS and Windows.