I have been there and done Oval racing and thoughrully enjoyed it. I did a few long distance races before FM where around. I admit theres more to just driving in a circle, drafting etc is great fun. The thing is, in the cars you use it's not as fun as it could be. Get using the GTR's. Also quite frankly the people who populate the servers are in general little boys who enjoy spamming and that annoys me.
I'm not here to slag Oval racers off, because I've done it and understand...but I've seen the light. Away from the Oval.
Rubbish, give any decent driver 10 minutes on the Oval with a decent set and he'll be up to speed. In the FO8 definatly.
On the subject of the FM server, imo it's over regulated to the point of being ridicoulous. "It's a game, not real life" is the comment I once got off one of the FM guys, well guys its a game but it needs to be realistic, which your server isn't I'm afraid.
My argument would be that people would just change the filename to suit. However the idea of picking pixels to check them seems reasonable, if a little complicated.
I'm all for making skins private. I just am not sure there is a viable solution.
If gaming becomes an olympic sport, then I'll shoot myself. It would make a mockery of what the games where about.
Ok so maybe saying the modern games are devoted to the gods is going too far, but can you imagine what they are thinking! I bet the greeks never intended for computer games to be on the agenda.