Hometown

Hometown
Length	3.6 mi (5.8 km)
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit
Category	Beginner
Music	"Little Sweaty Sow" "Hydrus 606"
Police	Chevrolet Caprice (PlayStation) Ford Crown Victoria (PC)
Need for Speed: High Stakes
Location	United States
Difficulty	Beginner
Police	Chevrolet Corvette Ford Crown Victoria

“

It may be a rural setting, but this first track is anything but laid back. Speed's the name of the game, so keep your eyes peeled for landmarks blurring by that could help with your timing on corners and jumps.

”

— In-game description

Hometown is a course in Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit and the PC release of Need for Speed: High Stakes.

Course

Featuring an iconic set of twin covered bridges, this route is set in autumn across a North American rural environment with trees and farms filling the background alongside fallen leaves cover parts of the road.

Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit

It is available from the beginning in both the PC and PlayStation releases.

The police vehicles patrolling the course in the Hot Pursuit mode are the Chevrolet Caprice in the PlayStation release or the Ford Crown Victoria in the PC release.

The musical pieces "Little Sweaty Sow" by Saki Kaskas and "Hydrus 606" by Rom Di Prisco are played when participating in an event along the course.

Need for Speed: High Stakes

It is set in the United States and is unlocked by competing in the Memory Lane Tour, Circuit #1.

The police vehicles patrolling the course are the Ford Crown Victoria and the Chevrolet Corvette.

Trivia

• In the beginning of the course, there is a billboard of Autumn Valley Speedway, a course featured in The Need for Speed.
• In the PlayStation release of Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, Hometown features a road sign that highlights the town as "Oakville", but the PC release has the road sign highlighted it as "Hometown".
  • These signs also mention Crystal Lake, which appears on Alpine Segment 2's map in The Need for Speed.
• The course is featured in the PC release of Need for Speed: High Stakes without alterations compared to the PC release of Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, with the exception of the "Autumn Valley Speedway" billboard being replaced by a ""Gene's Memorial Speedway" billboard.

Gallery

Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit

Course Layout

Course Layout
(PC)

PlayStation

Farmlands

Covered Bridges

Town
(Weather On)

Forest

PC

Farmlands

Covered Bridges

Town
(Weather On)

Forest

Need for Speed: High Stakes

Farmlands

Covered Bridges

Town
(Weather On)

Forest