For those who haven’t heard, Stunod Racing is officially closing down their site as of February 17, 2025. With that they intend to move to Discord where all their resources will continue to exist.

While this is bummer news, it is nothing new for this community. Or any community behind any sim or game with a long lasting fanbase. While we have lost some of the longer lasting sites pretty consecutively in the last couple years, it is important to remember that this isn’t the first time this has happened, nor will it be the last. And despite that, the community lives on, it thrives, and continues to create great new things. We still have new mods, we still have new carsets, we still have new tracks, and they’re being released all the time.

When a larger site goes down, it can be easy to think “The community is dying.” This is not true. For those of us who keep resource sites like these up, it’s important to remember that the 10-20 of us who do are not representative the entire community when a site goes dark. If 3 to 5 of us shut sites down, it can be a rough, but from those ashes new sites arrive, and things continue on as they always have. File sharing is also easier than it’s ever been.

I hosted my first resource site for Papyrus based sims in 1996 with NASCAR Racing 2. A number of years later, in 2012, I started this one. And I plan to keep this one alive for many years to come. And that goes for many of the other sites that continue to thrive. And new sites will appear as new resource hubs along the way. Just like they always have.

If you’re looking for something just like Stunod is today, Make sure to check out the very excellent Armory Digital Racing Designs. That site, run by Mystical, will feel very familiar to those who have been using Stunod to post their stuff all these years.

With that said, take a breath, save the files you want to save, and don’t fear. We’re all gonna be just fine. If you are looking for a home for your carsets (I can’t do individual cars), tracks, mods, tools, utilities, you also have a home here.

–Bill Martin/Dr. Noise