Another thing I realized with the McLaren F1 GTR being added to Gr.3 is this:
-Modern Super GT500 cars were added to their own group, Gr.2.
-An older FIA GT car, the F1 GTR, was added to Gr.3. Note that this is likely going to be alongside modern Super GT300 cars, as modern GT300 cars and FIA GT3 cars race alongside IRL, and the bodykits on the WRX STI Gr.3 and Lancer Evo X Gr.3 resemble GT300 cars.
-Older JGTC GT500 cars ran alongside FIA GT cars, such as the famed Lamborghini Diablo GT1 that was in previous GT games. I recall the McLaren F1 GTR was also in GT500. Granted, they didn't usually perform well, but they were still eligible.
So this raises some questions:
-Where would JGTC GT300 cars go if they were added? They could be added to Gr.3 like their modern counterparts. But they also may be butted-out by GT500 cars from the JGTC era, since the F1 GTR was a competitor of those cars and was added to Gr.3.
-Does this also necessarily mean JGTC GT500 cars would be added to Gr.3? The presence of a FIA GT car in Gr.3 says yes, but I wouldn't assume anything.
-Where would GT1 cars from the late 2000s go, such as the Maserati MC12, or the Nissan GT-R GT1? I'm not sure if they'd be put into Gr.3, but I could see them being added to Gr.2, since in theory, the Super GT500 cars that are in there and the late GT1 cars wouldn't differ much in age.
-I also wonder where older GT2 cars would go. I'm not 100% sure if they'd be added to Gr.3 like some of the GTE cars in there, even though GTE is a successor to GT2, as far as I've read.
And as one more final question, I understand that the reason Spa-Francorchamps isn't in the game at the moment is due to PD trying to work out a decent licensing deal, but was this similar for Lotus' situation? Was Lotus - similar to Spa - trying to charge PD too much? Or was it some other licensing issue, namely related to Lotus' sale to Geely, and the resulting red tape getting changed?