If you are experiencing problems joining or creating a race, please follow the below directions carefully and precisely.

1. If you are not a registered member, click join at the top left of the site to join, or click here.

2. If you are a registered member and are not logged in, click the login link in your top left corner and enter in your Onlineracin.com username and password.

3. Make sure your NASCAR Racing 2003 Season CD is inserted into your CD tray. If you're running Nascar 2005 or 2007, then this is not needed

4. Click the 'racing' button in the menu to the left and select "OLR Client Installer", save the file, then run the file.

5. Go to the garage showroom, then up top, click on "manage car files", now upload each car for each separate MOD you plan to run.

6. On your PC, click start/run/programs/OLR client/OLR to login to the race arena. You can make a short cut on your desktop for the client.exe file located in Program Files/OLR client and just click on it to join OLR races.

7. To create a race, click the 'create' button. In the drop down of tracks, any track listed is available. Enter in your race settings and click 'Launch' at the bottom.

8. Once the race shows in the list is available servers, click on the race event, then click the join button and you should go right into the race.

9. Be sure to check the options button, and make sure the game paths say "super!". This means the program has found your executable (exe) files for your games. If the path says "update", then you need to manually edit the path, and type in the correct paths, and hit "update" again. It should now to say "super", if not, recheck your typing, the path is still incorrect.

*NOTE* You must have the following programs installed to run the OLR client:

Java

Flash Player

Microsoft .Net Framework

If you are currently running Windows Vista, please click before for a quick startup guide. Also there is a basic guide below for getting the OLR client setup on your PC:

Basic Guide to Installing NR2003/NR2005 on Vista.

Basic Guide to Setting Up the OLR Client.