The Quest for the Championship | NASCAR Thunder 2004 Career Mode Experience | Season 3

It's time for the grand finale of the NASCAR Thunder 2004 career mode experience. After scoring 13 wins in season 2, my goal for season 3 is quite simple: win absolutely everything and go take that championship. We've got the equipment to do it, and it all comes down to performing in the races. Basically, I need to stay out of season-long Jeff Gordon rivalries, and keep the car clean in each race in order to score maximum points. After two full seasons of grinding away at it, it's time to chase a title.
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[@gamingwithgree4491]

To continue the story: Phlip Withem unexpectedly retired after the 2005 season, never to be seen or heard from again. He took HJ Ballsport with him. The Wood Brothers would release Kevin Grubb after he failed to qualify for the Daytona 500, signing Tony Walker as the replacement. Tony would go on to win 4 championships in his career, always keeping a #121 sticker on his car to honor the man who helped start his career. Christian Fittipaldi would continue to cause mystery cautions to the point where he was taken by the SCP foundation.

[@TomoG4ch4_Alan94]

This continuation comment is heartwarming, but the last comment just startled me

[@pawlikos3654]

Max Verstappen simulator: US Edition

[@MooseFromDiscord]

Honestly, I never had interest in NASCAR or these games. But I stumbled on this series last month and I’ve been binging all your content ever since. I feel like I’m learning more about the sport with every video

[@EvelineE-001]

I'm the same but now

[@imdumb75]

Holy shit Jeff Gordon is just a punching bag for everyone. He is just trying to drive and people ram into him at 190 mph for doing nothing.

[@crmshv6826]

Not shown at the end, security trying to hold back all the angry drivers 😂

[@noahhenkel5148]

Have you considered a Nascar 2005: Chase for the Cup playthrough? I always found moving up from rookie driver to team owner fun in that game.

[@ThatSteeleGuy]

Great series, you motivated me to revisit my childhood and play Nascar Thunder 2004's career mode again. I would love to see a Nascar 2005: Chase for the Cup playthrough next!

[@duskrem_]

This was an amazing career mode. A lot of fun moments and an amazing season to end on for Phlip Withem and HJ Ballsport. Glad Fittipaldi did his thing until the end.

[@siltstridersftw]

If we got NASCAR Thunder 2004 on Gamecube (sadly it was cancelled) but you could make that #112 car for Tony Walker by modding the game. Thunder 2003 is looking badass in the future with the retextured cars. I use a mod on mine which gives me the #11, #14, #23, #44 and the #77 cup cars. Granted they are renamed and retextured fantasy drivers but it works.

[@AImpatientMan]

Aint no way this bad boy dropped just before my 4 hour drive I got to watch it and seeing him win martainsville and bristol without sending half the field to the infield care center was a experience

[@coolboyiscape]

Clicked this as soon as I saw the notification

[@FayeHunter]

Here we are and I can't wait to tally up how many one liners will be added to my lexicon once more.

[@guywhosomething]

What the ffnhfftuck is this masterpiece, do one of these but with 2005 chase for the cup, or maybe mess around in nr2003 if you still have it

[@JMONEYHS]

I literally watched season 1 and season 2 videos last night, absolutely loved watching all of this series!

[@stonedwall]

this makes me want to play 03 again, the only nascar game i had...

[@Raptorking18]

Can we have a season 4? Just go for 36/36 in the season 😂

[@ryanward2855]

Great video as always. Would love to see another career mode at some point and I feel that I am not alone in that regard. Thanks for a good watch always.

[@Fakewhack-st8fl]

Super entertaining series Great narration that isn't repetitive Hopefully we see a season 4

[@TanDawg58]

Its amazing how by 2004/2005, if youre smart in your equipment and shop investments, you can put an absolute whoopin on the field. I think I achieved 100 wins by 06 or 07 in one of my various playthroughs

[@chrisw443]

Complete?! You gotta get that rookie in a car for you for at least one last season! But yeah were all hoping iracing kinda can remake one of these games. They can just update a yearly dlc then, and it'll just be good. Fingers crossed. Think about the state of gaming right now, it kinda sucks, so who else could even make a racing game?

[@Tytrovy]

Time to grab a snack and watch this masterpiece

[@FayeHunter]

Easy three dozen lines that broke me. I love these videos. Thank you for the content I swear it's only on rainy days I need some underhanded strategies to cross my desk lmao 🎉

[@JakeSimRacing]

Love the content, it hits that perfect nostalgia of playing this game as a kid while also being an easy watch and just generally entertaining. Keep it up!

[@biffabacon6019]

Thanks pal made my weekend this 😂 👌🏻

[@justinturley7071]

Hope to see a prequel series of Philip Withem in either 05 or 07 career mode to show how he got to the Cup Series.

[@rantingandraving4193]

I loved this career mode as a kid

[@doubleutubefan5]

I can't believe I'm getting such quality content for free

[@Hibs]

I binge watched a lot of your Channel when I found it months ago. This series was very fun to watch! Ever think of livestreaming some of races for content like this? Would be a fun way see more of these races like the Robby Gordon season, but not have to make a while nother video. Either way, keep up the good work! Looking forward to what you do next!

[@unicornmaster2737]

For those wondering, if a driver retires and is not replaced by a Busch series driver or backmarker, it’s because those teams are one of the ones that get offered as “package” sponsors for the user. Season 1: Kenny Schrader and Kevin Lepage Season 2: Bill Elliott Season 3: Rusty Wallace and Todd Bodine All of those cars are available for the user to sponsorship offers to drive and unlock at a certain car rating. Once you get to a car rating of 93, you can replace Jeff Gordon and Dale jr, while Harvick and Tony are at 94.

[@Bobcat205]

From beginning to end, this was a great series to watch. Has me psyched for what comes next for this channel, from the random reviews coming soon, or even some similar series in other NASCAR games if you want to do that (such as a Fight to the Top in CFTC or Total Team Control).

[@xWORLDxCHAMPIONx]

can’t describe how much I’d love a dirt to Daytona edition of this series

[@HELLOEARTH1MILLION]

If you did a season 4 the challenge would be to win every race

[@PatTriesAgain]

Hope we will get another video of this game from you. And maybe do a series on Dirt to Daytona?

[@Corvilux52]

This whole time I've been reading your name as Mark Leffler and now I feel fucking stupid.

[@hdlight]

Great content. I like your style LOL You're skilled hilarious

[@MarkLeiffer]

Thank you so much!

[@Rookieah]

Years of his career mode based on clues: episode 1 is 2002, episode 2: is 2003 and the finale is 2004. Edit: I didn’t realize that the finale was 2005, the second episode was 2004 and his rookie year was 2003

[@cjo1992]

I don't know how you never dnf lol. I've dnfed by just brushing the wall before. Although may or may not have had a few run-ins before that.

[@MarkLeiffer]

I found that there's a trick to it. If you're going to hit the front end, hit it on the left side. That somehow causes less damage to the car. The rear end is also very sensitive, but door to door contact is pretty much fair game. Basically, spend season 1 trying as hard as possible not to DNF, like how I ran the Martinsville high line just so cars wouldn't ram me. Once you get your equipment competitive, it's pretty easy to stay out of harm's way. Unless you get into Jeff Gordon rivalries.

[@rickyclark928]

Has anyone ever gotten to a 99 overall car? That’d be a great reason to keep going if you ever did 😂

[@siltstridersftw]

I did when I done the entire career mode, granted I simmed like 6 seasons just to let the field have some wins and championships.

[@3DWorldMan]

i think nascar 06 would be a fun game to playthrough, though some contract offers corrupt your save file so you'd need to be really careful

[@siltstridersftw]

Like the #9 Pennzoil Ford in the Busch Series I don't know why it does that on the actual consoles, emulators it doesn't do that which is odd.

[@Remainchild]

Amazing

[@slipangle3027]

The only thing I don't like about the career mode is that it gets way too easy long before you have all or even most of the shop upgrades.

[@SMPandanic]

I am a month late. but I have an idea.. for any nascar game with a career mode (like the dirt to daytona) you could do them?

[@jakenadeau3]

Let’s go!!!

[@Hupp61]

Was this recorded on an emulator and if so what settings? Despite every other game on PCSX2 running amazing at max graphics this game always chugs massively

[@MarkLeiffer]

This was emulated using PCSX2, I found that it only works well with version 1.6.0.

[@LucasTA26]

Is it possible to get all the pole positions and then next season for the bud shootout be the only car in it?

[@MarkLeiffer]

The game seems to just randomly select like 21 cars to make a field when you win that many poles.

[@boltonbiggs3]

I Have This Game. But I Always Found It Difficult To Do A Career Season. How Do I Set My Team Up So I Can Have A Winning Team Like What You Make But In A Chevrolet Of Course?

[@youfillmylifewithjello6661]

This is like one of those nascar seasons in review, it’s that top notch. A little bittersweet knowing it ended tho. ❤

[@u1richh]

Is this run on actual hardware or on PCSX2?

[@MarkLeiffer]

PCSX2 so I can upscale the resolution.

[@u1richh]

@@MarkLeiffer How are your controls so smooth? Best I can get is all or nothing on the inputs, even the sticks.

[@MarkLeiffer]

@@u1richh I use DS4Windows with a PS4 controller for all of my videos at this point. It doesn't give you analog control with L2 and R2 but it will work for the sticks.

[@KhristianGillespie]

IRacing is not a game

[@WhatiFRacing]

one thing about NT04 is that each season the AI get tougher to match with your car upgrades. So S4 the ai will be much faster. Though with your custom setups you'll still be faster but not as OP as before. Maybe trying not using custom setups for S4 would be interesting. In my livestream series by season 4 i basically start last using a default setup and its pretty tough. The game will always be challenging on default setups which gives it infinite replayability

[@ryanward2855]

LFG!!! Been waiting all week for this.

[@talhadevyt]

i really wanna have a career mode like the thunder games in the game im making tho now with how the next gen car is i gotta figure out how that will work i loved this series you own jeff gordon in my books

[@DehCoolZ]

Great video as always worth the wait!

[@walkedauto6521]

YESSSSSSSSSSS ITS FINALLY OUT!!!!!!!!

[@meleniumshane90]

Great video series man. I recall attempting a season in the game back in the day, but most of the time I'd just go backwards on the track to cause pileups.

[@dawsongraham21]

You should do Dirt to Daytona now for a new series.

[@TransbianKitty]

Christian Fittipaldi and cautions at Martinsville: name a better duo!

[@APrimusHokie]

Tony Walker chase to the cup 2005 playthrough👀

[@CommandoMario91]

These videos have been so hilarious to watch. It's making me want to fire up my old original Xbox and play this game again

[@TowMater603]

this game was and IS perfect . the best Nascar game in my book. Nascar 2005 Total team control was good too , but the only thing that Nascar thunder 04 was missing was the ability to start a second if not third car to you team. I just bought this game for my PC and i cannot wait to play it. i have not played this game since 2004 or 2005-ish. the memories with my friends playing this back then were awesome.

[@lexj432hz6]

Awesome video Mark! I was hoping there’d be another telepathic pit stop lol!

[@StuGLyfe]

Loving this content my dude, looking forward to you next upload.

[@Dat-Mudkip]

You should restart this series from the bottom again, just for the sake of comparing runs.

[@MidTennPews]

My first career playthrough when I was a kid, took like 12 seasons or something like that before I got my first win. I got it at Michigan.

[@teodorusdikypermadi]

Mark listen in nascar 2005 chase for the cup in Fight To The Top. don't be a villain like realradman be a heroes please i beg you man !

[@haiwanbumi]

I really enjoy these career series!

[@BarrenWasteland]

Lets fuckin gooooooooooo

[@youfillmylifewithjello6661]

Not only is this fantastic content but you are a fantastic driver as well bravo! One of the cleanest career play throughs of NT2004 👏🏻