we had a very long session at kyoto long, it never crashed there, and we had alot of start crashes (with the GTRs though). (there joined and left alot of people).
in case someone wonders, i've attached a screen for comparison. It's both the same skin, and it's even worse if you use red color.
You can turn it off in the Graphics options.
nK pro has a really nice flag system. although it's not really a person waving the flag, it looks great while driving.
you can easily spot the flag from everywhere, unlike GTR e.g.
i voted no, it would destroy the game if you'll have to download V0.93c with update 0.03 of a track and the XYZ carpack2006 first.
look at the ISI games, it's just a pain in the ass.
If there were a non public editor and some approvement by the devs to let it in the game, say some semi-official cars/tracks, i would vote yes.