So after participating in 2 pre-season events I would like to give you my opinion regarding the regulations and some suggestions to improve them:
I think the cars are pretty much balanced. As Wilfred pointed out the FR seems to be a little sluggish so it may need tweaking but other than that I have no complaints
I haven't seen a single race so far where the opening pace lap/grid start has been good. It seems like there is much confusion between the drivers (myself included) as to what exactly is going on.
Can we PLEASE make a regulation that prohibits weaving on the pace lap because it doesn't really help the tyres that much and it just causes many crashes as a result of drivers needing to brake and accelerate constantly. Everyone needs to know and be clear of exactly how the race is starting and to me it just doesn't seem like everybody does.
Also it seems like you could generally categorise the current participating drivers into groups of "Fast drivers" "Average drivers" and "Sluggish drivers" (not naming any names). I know this is to be expected in every racing series but it seems more predominant here. This surely means that we would be seeing a similar race results table throughout the season of fastest constantly at the top with average in the middle and sluggish bringing up the back (or rage quitting
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So to encourage closer racing I am suggesting a success ballast system be introduced. For example, if you win a race you get +25kg to your car, second +15kg etc; then if you finish lower than say fifth all your ballast gets removed. Obviously this is just a very rough example and would need a lot of tweaking by the stewards but a lot of racing series employ a system such as this to encourage closer racing so I think it can only be a good thing.
Finally, I notice that a lot of drivers retire or rage quit just because they are losing (particularly during the longer races). It is easy to tell when a driver has raged or has just been disconnected. In the GTP WRS they have a system where if you want to retire you just pull into the pits and wait for the race to finish. I think there should be a rule such that if you rage quit then you don't receive any points from that race (if this isn't the case already) or even more so the raged driver should have points taken from his current championship amount for unsportsmanlike behaviour.
I have raced in many racing series (not just on GTP) and no offense intended to the organisers/stewards but so far this seems to be one of the more "amateurish" series just because of the apparent lack of formality in some areas. But I am not saying this series isn't fun because it certainly is the complete opposite of that
This is just my two cents and I don't expect any immediate direct action to be taken because the above is just my opinion based on what I have observed, but I feel the need to express it at this point before the season actually starts rather than during the actual season itself. Thanks....oh and great actual racing tonight by the way....and apologies for the large amount of text.
). I'm far more foulmouthed in person but thanks to GT5's censor system I've layed off a little on my cursing (Thank god 
). I arrived to the race in a grumpy mood today.
Karma (the negative one, oops) will pay you a visit, then.
I like close racing with 4+ cars. 
