All carsets in this section are designed to work with the Original Cup Car that comes with the game. If you don’t have the mod and you want it you can head over the the car mods section up above. Also, All of these car sets (and car mods) can be modified to use any of the 3 different physics models available within NR2003. If you need to/want to change the physics of a car set or car mod you’ll need the swapper which will be the first link listed below. Happy Racing!
Car Physics Swapper – If you use a mod with different physics than it was originally released with (example: Aero88 mod uses CTS physics, but I run it with Cup physics) Use this tool with the carsets below to switch the physics of the car files to the physics you use!
1987 Winston Cup Series – Don Bouquin
• Cup Physics
• 44 total cars, including pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx full season rating).
1990 Winston Cup Series – Frank Abreu
• Cup Physics
• 43 total cars, including pit crews & ratings (creator’s ratings system)
1995 Winston Cup Series – Various Artists
• Cup Physics
• 65 cars, including pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
1996 Winston Cup Series – Various Artists
• Cup Physics
• 46 cars, including pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
• Updated: November 17, 2025 (ratings updated)
1997 Winston Cup Series – MasGrafx
• Cup Physics
• 141 cars, including pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
• Updated: November 17, 2025 (additional cars added)
1998 Winston Cup Series – Various Artists
• Cup Physics
• 308 cars, including pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
• Updated: November 17, 2025 (additional cars added & ratings updates)
1999 Winston Cup Series – Various Artists
• Cup Physics
• 133 cars, including pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
• Updated: November 17, 2025 (additional cars added & ratings updates)
2000 Winston Cup Series – Various Artists
• Cup Physics
• 147 cars, with full ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
• Multiple cars missing pit crew graphics
• Updated: November 17, 2025 (additional cars added & ratings updates)
2001 Winston Cup Series – Various Artists
• Cup Physics
• 334 cars, with full pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
• Compiled November 17, 2025
2002 Winston Cup Series – Various Artists
• Cup Physics
• 435 cars, with full pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
• Compiled November 17, 2025
2003 Winston Cup Series – Various Artsists
• Cup Physics
• 618 Cars, with pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
• Compiled November 17, 2025
2004 Nextel Cup Series – Various Artists
• Cup Physics
• 993 cars, with pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
• Compiled November 18, 2025
2004 Nextel Pre-Season Thunder – Unknown Artist
• Cup Physics
• 43 pre-season cars with ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
• No pit crew graphics
2005 Nextel Cup Series – MasGrafx, Team SBR, The Racing Groove, TVR
• Cup Physics
• 485 cars, with pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
• Compiled November 18, 2025
2006 Nextel Cup Series – MasGrafx & Team SBR
• Cup Physics
• 327 cars, with pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
• Compiled November 18, 2025
2007 Nextel Cup Series – MasGrafx & Team SBR
• Cup Physics
• 188 cars, with pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
• Compiled November 18, 2025
2007 Nextel Cup Japan Fictional – Unknown Artist
• Cup Physics
• 34 cars with pit crews & the creator’s original ratings
2008 Sprint Cup Series (Car of Yesterday) – Nascarfan19
• Cup physics
• 238 cars with pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
2009 Sprint Cup Series (Car of Yesterday) – Nascarfan19
• Cup physics
• 61 cars with pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
2010 Sprint Cup Series (Car of Yesterday) – Nascarfan19
• Cup physics
• 74 cars with pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
2011 Sprint Cup Series (Car of Yesterday) – Nascarfan19
• Cup physics
• 57 cars with pit crews & ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
2014 Sprint Cup Series (Car of Yesterday) – jrp61356
• Cup physics
• 48 cars (These cars do not have pit crew graphics)
• Ratings (Ethone’s 2008 Formula ratings)
2015 Sprint Cup Series (Car of Yesterday) – jrp61356
• 49 cars (These cars do not have pit crew graphics)
• Ratings (Ethone’s 2008 Formula ratings)
2016 Sprint Cup Series (Car of Yesterday) – jrp61356
• 40 cars (These cars do not have pit crew graphics)
• Ratings (Ethone’s 2008 Formula ratings)
2017 Monster Energy Cup Series – jrp61356
• 41 cars (These cars do not have pit crew graphics)
• Ratings (Ethone’s 2008 Formula ratings)
2018 Sprint Cup Series (Car of Yesterday) – jrp61356
• 40 cars (These cars do not have pit crew graphics)
• Ratings (MasGrafx Cup season ratings)
2022 NASCAR Cup 2022 – c0rvinn
• Release date: 08/03/2024
• Cup Physics
• This carset includes 44 total cars from the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season, but on the original 2003 model car.
2025 Nextel Cup Series – c0rvinn
• Release Date: 08/10/2025
• Cup Physics
• This set includes 52 cars from the 2025 “Nextel” Cup season with full pit crew graphics & are rated with C0rvinn’s personal ratings.