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Here's a bold car for a bold driver! Maria Martinez enters her second NAPARL season in the #2 Nissan with high expectations, being last year's Rookie of the Year and looking for a chance to contend for the title this year. The bi-national driver (born in Mexico, racing for the USA) is ready to break out with a bold and fresh scheme to boot!

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Wow man these looks so cool
 
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Ready to jump back in with the series that started it all for Jet's Racing Designs? The NAPARL D1 'Homestretch Update' is now available, featuring a new, more dynamic ratings system, plus custom pit boxes!
 
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Hey all, been a bit obviously.

Just a quick update, things have been a bit crazier for me in the last month than I anticipated, but I've still been working on things behind the scenes. One thing that I learned quickly, and probably should have seen sooner in retrospect, is that it's draining to do pit boxes after the fact when it feels less exciting, which is why I've kind of had a break from it. That being said, I'm not scrapping the updates to the previous carsets, because I want to give them a definitive, complete edition, but at this point I believe it's best for me get going on the next project so I can get my creative side out a bit more, and do additional pit boxes along the way to still get those updates done when they're ready.

With all that being said, I should have something to show for the next project somewhat soon, as long as nothing comes for me in real life. This is going to be probably the biggest project I've ever done in terms of how it's all being put together, because it's taken a lot of planning, even compared to my other sets, for reasons you'll find out once I'm ready to introduce it.

Stay tuned!
 

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Hey all. Obviously, it's been a bit.

This semester of college has easily been my hardest, both from a class perspective and from a personal life standpoint, which is why it's been a while since my last post. I touched a little bit about this on my Twitter, as well as a personal work that wasn't related to this that I showed off there. Because of that, I just haven't had enough time recently to progress on the new project until recently. As part of this, I'd also like to say that because of my limited time, I'm going to be putting the carset updates on hold for the timebeing, so I can put my design efforts into the next NR project. I finally have a couple cars for it done, and my plan completed, so it shouldn't be much longer until I can finally show things off, barring any setbacks. I'm hoping to finally show things off in the next couple weeks at some point. I think there'll be a lot to be excited about, because as far as I can tell there's never been an NR carset like this, even compared to my other fictional series, and I'm also considering an additional element that I know for a fact has never been done for NR2003 content before.

Things will be worth the wait. It may have taken longer, and may be less frequent from here on out, but it'll get done, and it'll be special.
 

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We are back to the NAPARL series, with something unlike ever before! In this new carset, we're returning to the ICR mod and today's NAPARL racing machines, but for a special occasion, an exhibit by the NAPARL Hall of Fame. This carset is going be based around the Hall of Fame theme, building a full lore to the North American Professional Auto Racing League, built around a theoretical exhibit celebrating the series's Top 50 Drivers of all time. This carset will feature the 50 greatest drivers across the entrie history of the NAPARL since 1955, with all fifty drivers at the prime of their careers in today's NAPARL racing machines, including manufacturers and tires brought into today!

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Something unique about these cars compared to the normal NAPARL cars is the addition of trim on the spoiler and side skirts. These are symbolic, with our honored drivers being divided into five categories. Drivers selected who don't have a series championship will be given a trim in the NAPARL red color. One time champions will have a bronze trim, two time champions have a silver trim, and three time champions have a golden trim. Finally, our greatest driver of all time and the only driver with more than three championships so far will be given a special, one of a kind holographic trim. He will be the final driver revealed of the 50, though the rest will not be made and presented in a particular order.

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And now with all that said, let's see the first three cars to be on display and learn a little about their legendary drivers!

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Of course, there's no better place to begin than the first NAPARL champion. John Carpenter captured the first and third championship in NAPARL Division 1's history, and pioneered the team organization that would be used going forward for many. The Georgia native built up Georgia Racing with a mix of both friends and professional engineers in his time, giving him an advantage for his short, but trailblazing career. Some even think that he played a role in the series' premier event being at Atlanta.

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Richard Van Hook was one of the first big market racers, being from Philidelphia and attracting a whole new type of sponsor through Paine Webber, one of the first financial sponsors in series history. His time with George Bates Motorsports gave him the height of his career, as he captured his only title in 1978, with a great amount of wins to boot over more than twenty years in the series.

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Finally for today is one of the most remarkable stories in NAPARL history. Ben Kramer was a decent prospect in open wheel racing and the Formula Racing Association in the late 80s, but made the switch to stock cars after a wild accident changed his perspective on open wheel racing. Not one to back down, Kramer used it as an opportunity and adopted 'Air' as his name heading into his NAPARL career. While he never won a series championship, he left an impact on the series and captured their most prestigious race in 1998.

We have 47 more drivers to honor for this exhibit, who will be next to be shown off? Stay tuned!
 
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Next up is one of Canada's greatest drivers, John Leroux. The last NAPARL champion for Dodge, he was a poster child for the manufacturer before they decided to take their brand in a different direction. This led to the Winnipeg native having a bit of a shorter career, as he decided to move on after only fifteen seasons despite his success, but along the way he captured two titles back to back in 1986 and 1987, driving this iconic Mopar machine.
 

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From our first Canadian introduced to our first Mexican, George Paniagua. A native of Coahuila, Paniagua is one of the most recent additions to thetraditional NAPARL Hall of Fame, having retired in 2014 following two championships and one of the highest win totals of all Mexican drivers. On top of that, he also gave BMW their first NAPARL championships, driving their signature 14 car, though in an era before it was self sponsored. For a driver that raced a half century after the series started, he sure created a lot of firsts in his successful career!
 
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Texas's Bill Galdo may have only won one NAPARL championship in his career, but he had a much bigger influence on the series thanks to being one of the first drivers ever to race for over two decades in the series. A consistently strong competitor, and one of the first stars from outside the east coast, Galdo remains in the conversation for best driver of the 1970s, even as just a one time champion, thanks to the powerhouse he built driving for Early Schumer Motorsports, who took a big chance on him that paid off.
 

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Andy Pitcher is another driver with a single championship title, but a whole lot more influence than one would think. In his relatively short career for this roster with fifteen seasons, he was a part of the first time the NAPARL series really saw dominance from a multi car team in America Monterrey, where he got his one championship in 1992. That being said, he was a tad overshadowed by his two time champion teammate, who you'll meet later. Regardless, he holds a NAPARL title and several wins, putting him among the elite company of the series.
 

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The first driver we'll be looking at whom you'll recognize is Lana Walker, the only female driver in the Top 50 Drivers collection, and deservedly so as the first female star of the series, including the first female winner of a Division 1 race, the first female Southeastern 400 winner, and the highest finishing female ever in points. This car takes us back to her time before her part ownership and driving with Breakthrough Racing, and to her career peak at Bob Benson Motorsports, where she and her loyal sponsor StateFarm made history once more in 2009.

As an aside, today is the second anniversary of the opening of the NAPARL showroom, which is part of why I chose to do one of the handful of 'current' drivers when I did. Thanks again for all the support as this universe has grown!
 
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One of the few drivers in the collection who hadn't won a championship, nor a Southeastern 400, but deserving of a spot thanks to his race wins and influence is Tony Torres. When the NAPARL was founded, engaging Mexico with the series was always on the mind, which is why they were branded as a wholely North American series. In the 60's and early 70's, Torres became the first series winner from Mexico, and pulled out several more to boot. The Tijuana native reached the height of his career with Danny Brown Engineering, a southern General Motors team who helped him gain factory support. While he was never a champion and rarely contended for it, Torres left a major impact and laid the groundwork for racing talent from Mexico to be discovered by the series' teams.
 

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Keeping with the 60's, Kentucky's Joe Krug is a driver who was old school in his methods, owning his car and team himself, but established a bit of an pioneering advantage as the first NAPARL champion to have a corporate sponsor that wasn't automotive related. His career was among the shortest of the championship winners, only racing eight years at the national level before he stepped back on his own terms. He may have been a driver from early in NAPARL history, and someone who didn't wish to stay in the spotlight for long, but his influence on the early days of the series runs deep, and opened the doors for more types of sponsors to emerge for the series.
 

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The first three time champion to arrive, Johnny Jenkins looked to dominate the 2000s, and while the Georgia native was set back after back to back titles, he clawed back to win a third in 2008 and came close to several more. As the head driver for Cameron Motorsports, his career was in danger once the financial crisis forced the team to sell despite being one of the best in the series. While he never won another title afterward, he had a successful career until 2014, where he was still a winner. A stellar career that could have been the greatest if a few more things went his way.
 

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Tecolutilla's Angel Castillo was part of the rise of multiple Mexican stars in the 1990s, and while he wasn't a champion, he left just as big of an impact with both a Southeastern 400 win, as well as being the head driver for Team Rio Grande, one of the first successful teams run out of Mexico itself. His on track success may have been overshadowed a bit in the decade, but he still had a very successful career along the way, and continued to be a jumpstart for many more to prove they could, on and off the track.
 

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Don Azelton was one of the first drivers that one would consider to have a more 'modern' career trajectory, despite racing in the first couple decades of the series. The North Carolina native worked alongside his hometown's Jacobson Racing to the height of his career, his 1968 title, before moving on to a few other operations at the end of his career. As one of the first drivers to race for more than fifteen seasons, he held a few records for the series in his time, though many were outmatched by the best of the best.
 

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Benjamin Rice was the first NAPARL Champion from the West Coast, and took home two titles to boot for Pepsi StoneSport, a short lived but very strong single car team owned by Kurt Stone, and one of the first times a corporate partner directly bought into their team and driver. Rice started his career as a teenage hotshot in the late 70s, and while he didn't live up to they hype immediately, he showed enough promise to stay around before finally capturing stardom a decade later, culminating in his back to back 90s titles in this Pepsi Dodge that became an icon of the time.
 

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