Make 100% declared rules before any race but do not leave it for the admins to decide under/after any race. Same mess might happen again, looking the upcoming 16 hours race.
What a manipulating statement, looking at the car choice & results of this league...
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I have heard it a couple of times now: No FXR blew away a FZR/XRR at SO4 past GTAL season, just compare fastest race laptimes - 0,3 seconds only. On the other hand I see up to 2 seconds difference against the FXR on several other tracks, looking the spdo stats of past season. This to me makes the new restriction testing subject a very valid one.
I´ve tried to help with testing the past two days.
What I saw was, that the FXR is still about 2 secs a lap slower at KY3b and on a FXR track like BL1 the cars are about even.
FXR will still not become THE winner car, in case similar other good racers go the XRR/FZR way. And at the end of the day everyone will be able to chose their easiest engine damage-, their easiest flip-, their worse tires- and backmarker-qualifing car, whenever not able to use r2r2, like the "Big Brothers" will do, for sure. Just take the FXR then.
But this will not happen.
Sidenote: I see FXR GT2 teams testing on r4r2 for the 16 Hours Race, should tell enough about the horrible FXR tire situation, even in GT2 class.
To round it up: Even with new restrictions, the FXR will still be the "Diesel Car" steady pace and no mistakes and you have a little chance for the overall win, were FZR/XRR because of a faster pace still can have risk-racers like Danish D.Lind behind the wheel..
I´d be interested to see some stats about sold S2 licences in a few month if the devs would restrict the overall demo hosts to 5 only - instead of the actual number of 200.
Sayed that, I have no problem with long-terms or any demo racer arround and believe as well in the motto "Never change a winning team".