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NASCAR Thunder 2002 was the first NASCAR game released for the Xbox and the second released for the Playstation 2. Game modes consist of Create-a-car, Quick race, Season mode, Career mode, and practice. Before every race you have the option to qualify for a position at the start of the race, get to know the track in practice, or 'race' other cars in Happy Hour. The game has every driver from the 2000 Winston Cup season and more drivers you can unlock. NASCAR Thunder 2002 was the first NASCAR game released for the Xbox and the second released for the Playstation 2. Game modes consist of Create-a-car, Quick race, Season mode, Career mode, and practice. Before every race you have the option to qualify for a position at the start of the race, get to know the track in practice, or 'race' other cars in Happy Hour. The game has every driver from the 2000 Winston Cup season and more drivers you can unlock.

==Drivers==
===Winston Cup===
*01-]-Cingular Wireless Dodge

*02-]-Alltel Ford

*1-]-Pennzoil Chevrolet

*2-]-Team Rusty Ford

*4-]-Kodak MAX Film Chevrolet

*5-]-Kellogg's Chevrolet

*6-]-Mark Martin Ford

*8-]-Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet
*9-]-Dodge Dealers Dodge

*10-]-Valvoline Pontiac

*12-]-Mobil 1 Ford

*15-]-NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet

*17-]-DeWalt Power Tools Ford

*18-]-Interstate Batteries Pontiac

*19-]-Dodge Dealers Dodge

*20-]-The Home Depot Pontiac

*21-]-Motorcraft Ford

*22-]-Caterpillar Dodge

*24-]-DuPont Chevrolet

*25-]-UAW-Delphi Chevrolet

*26-]-Kmart Ford

*27-]-Duke's Mayonnaise/Sauer's Pontiac

*28-]-Texaco/Havoline Ford

*29-]-GM Goodwrench Service Plus Chevrolet

*30-]-America Online Chevrolet

*31-]-Lowe's Chevrolet

*33-]-Oakwood Homes Chevrolet

*40-]-Chip Ganassi Racing Dodge

*43-]-Cheerios Dodge

*43-]-STP Dodge (Legend)

*45-]-Sprint PCS Dodge

*55-]-Square D Chevrolet

*88-]-UPS Ford

*97-]-Sharpie/Rubbermaid Ford

*99-]-CITGO Ford

===Busch Series===
*7-]-Kleenex Chevrolet

*10-]-NesQuik Ford

*18-]-MBNA Chevrolet

*21-]-Rockwell Automation Chevrolet

*23-]-Jani-King Pontiac

*27-]-Williams Travel Centers Chevrolet

*33-]-Alka Seltzer Chevrolet

*37-]-Unsponsored Chevrolet

*60-]-Grainger Ford

*74-]-Staff America Chevorlet

*99-]-Aaron's Chevrolet

==Trivia==
{{Trivia|date=November 2007}}
* ] was cut from the game after his death on ], ], and various tributes to him appear throughout the game.
* This is the first console NASCAR game to feature a full field of 43 cars racing on the track at once.
* Benny Parsons played the game as his ] Pontiac to show viewers the track layout on ] telecasts.
* The ] and Xbox version features the song "]" by ] because the game creator, ], had just announced sponsorship in the fall ] race.
* This is the first NASCAR game to include ].
* Drivers ] & ] are absent in this game..
* Often at Martinsville, the computer has the ability to "slingshot" past other drivers.
* This is the first NASCAR game to feature Busch series drivers.
* ] and ] race full time in season mode. In reality, Newman ran 6 races and Green ran 8 races.
* This was the first console NASCAR game to include Dodges.
* This was the first NASCAR game to feature a day to night transition at every night race. This feature was removed in ] and did not reappear until the ] and ] versions of ] but in that game only certain tracks will change from day to night.
* Occasionally, Busch Series cars with the same numbers as Cup cars start in the same race. Additionally, ] and ] may start twice in the same event, in both their Busch and Cup cars.
* If you look closly on ]'s car on the cover of the game, you can see a ] logo.


==External links== ==External links==
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2001 video game
NASCAR Thunder 2002
Developer(s)EA Tiburon
Publisher(s)Electronic Arts
Platform(s)Xbox, PlayStation, Playstation 2
ReleaseOctober 2, 2001 Playstation, October 15, 2001 Playstation 2, and November 14, 2001 Xbox
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single Player, Multiplayer

NASCAR Thunder 2002 is a racing simulator video game developed by EA Tiburon and published by EA Sports that came out for the PlayStation, Playstation 2, and Xbox. It is the fifth game in the NASCAR series of video games, and is the first of the series to have a new title (The other games simply read "NASCAR" and then the year). Notably, it is the first NASCAR game to feature alternate paint schemes on the cars. It featured the 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Champion Jeff Gordon on its cover and 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Champion Bobby Labonte on the disc.

NASCAR Thunder 2002 was the first NASCAR game released for the Xbox and the second released for the Playstation 2. Game modes consist of Create-a-car, Quick race, Season mode, Career mode, and practice. Before every race you have the option to qualify for a position at the start of the race, get to know the track in practice, or 'race' other cars in Happy Hour. The game has every driver from the 2000 Winston Cup season and more drivers you can unlock.

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