Multiclass Racing

[swynder]

Dear Kaz, I would love to know if in any point in the GT Series, we will ever see multiclass racing. I was replying to the thread about a higher number of cars in the grid and I was refering to Le Mans and Endurance races when Multiclass races came to mind. I would really like to see races in GT featuring this. If the number of cars in the races increased it would be awesome to see a full Le Mans grid, composed of prototypes and the GT classes. It could also be nice with cars other than the Endurance racers.

 

[gitslautriv]

Being able to cope with large fields would clearly need to be addressed first, but having "transparent" other classes would be amazing. 2 classes works really well in the TOCA Race Driver series (released as Pro & V8 Supercars in US & Aus regions).

Sorry to cross threads, but imagine ramped up AI, unpredicatble weather and winds, with offline Le Mans incorporating GT and LMS classes. I don't expect miracles now, but long term.

 

[stuff1138]

This is something I've always wanted too. Part of the awesomeness of 24h du Mans is the multiple classes on the track at once. The thought of flying down the Mulsanne straight and blowing past lapped GT traffic in a P1 car makes me giddy.

 

[swynder]

This is something I've always wanted too. Part of the awesomeness of 24h du Mans is the multiple classes on the track at once. The thought of flying down the Mulsanne straight and blowing past lapped GT traffic in a P1 car makes me giddy.

Indeed, the fact this wasn´t in GT5/GT6 upset me alot. Specially in GT5, I mean, you had 24 hour long races and then you had nothing more than 12 cars (about a quarter of the real grid) and what was worse was that it would be composed by an Audi R8 (A GT3 Class car) A Viper or a Corvette (wich at the time were GT1 but have similar specs to GT2 compared to now) A Nissan R390 or a Mercedes CLK GTR and then it had LMP´s normally beeing a GT-ONE, the Pescarollo´s, a Bentley, the BMW V12LMR, the Audi R8 and the Peugeot. If you were an experienced driver, even though GT´5 competition is way harder than GT6´s you would lose all the fun in the race and the track would be empty, so it would basically resume to you doing laps arround the track for 24hours like it was a time trial, and you sometimes would have to overtake a car. If we had 46 driver grid´s and multi class, those events would get their fun back, and it would be like the real race, and if it was like that, then, I wouldn´t mind having 24 hour long races back... Now I see why PD turned the 24 hours of Le Mans into the 24 minutes of Le Mans...

 

[Latin Avenger]

Indeed, the fact this wasn´t in GT5/GT6 upset me alot. Specially in GT5, I mean, you had 24 hour long races and then you had nothing more than 12 cars (about a quarter of the real grid) and what was worse was that it would be composed by an Audi R8 (A GT3 Class car) A Viper or a Corvette (wich at the time were GT1 but have similar specs to GT2 compared to now) A Nissan R390 or a Mercedes CLK GTR and then it had LMP´s normally beeing a GT-ONE, the Pescarollo´s, a Bentley, the BMW V12LMR, the Audi R8 and the Peugeot. If you were an experienced driver, even though GT´5 competition is way harder than GT6´s you would lose all the fun in the race and the track would be empty, so it would basically resume to you doing laps arround the track for 24hours like it was a time trial, and you sometimes would have to overtake a car. If we had 46 driver grid´s and multi class, those events would get their fun back, and it would be like the real race, and if it was like that, then, I wouldn´t mind having 24 hour long races back... Now I see why PD turned the 24 hours of Le Mans into the 24 minutes of Le Mans...

Now that's realism at it's FINEST!! considering it's supposed to be a simulation game what are they waiting for.