I doubt any cars from '09 or earlier will be in GT5 (unless of course they're special cars like perhaps Dale Earnhardt's '98 car)
PD has the licencse for NASCAR. They're keeping the cars up to date. That means all of them will have a spoiler. Notice how Tony Stewart's #14 car has an updated paint scheme for '10 instead of the '09 paint scheme from the '09 E3 trailer.
If GT5 was released in 2009 it would have the '09 cars, now that it has been delayed to '10 it will have '10 cars.
I think people are reading too much into what PD means by 'models'. Its just translation confusion. Each "model" is just another car.
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That would be nice since PD did all the modeling for the wings... no point in throwing that work away. To those that might think it's as simple as changing the wing to a spoiler, you have to remember that cars, drivers, sponsors and paint jobs change every year too and all of those need to be painted to be factual.
I hope they dont add the wing cars. They're uglier, not current and most of the winged cars from the '09 trailer have been upgraded to the spoiler.
Its not that big of a deal to update the cars, really. Theres tons of amateur "painters" who can create 99% accurate paint jobs for NASCAR sims quite easily and quickly and they don't have the experience or technologyt PD has. If NASCAR went to a new body style for Sprint Cup, like the new cars in the Nationwide series, then it would be alot of work. But paint jobs are probably the easiest part of modeling a car.
Impressive video, i was going to reply boring, but watching that video was very engaging, think the best part was the pit crew and driver commentating and leading the driver forward.
Now picture that online = Total disaster with friends and a nightmare with randoms, playing GT5P is enough of a nightmare with randoms pushing and punting for no reason at all. Hope they make the nascar physics tight like the AI cars and not easy to spin, that would make it so enjoyable not worrying about getting spun every 2secs or bit of lag and you push your mate into a huge spin etc. that would totally blow it personally.
Its possible to race in packs like that online, happens all the time in NASCAR 2003 and those cars spin out with the slightest touch. Just takes a bunch of experienced drivers with their head screwed on right. Still though it takes a massive amount of concentration and to win one of these races you must be very brave.
However in open rooms this type of racing will be a nightmare. I imagine the amount of crashes from this type of racing will turn many towards road course races where you dont have to rely on the driving skill of another driver as much. I remember with NASCAR 2003 online many started racing the smaller ovals that broke up the 40 car packs because of all the massive crashes that marred the restrictor plate racing.
I wonder if PD will enforce restrictor plates on these cars at Daytona? If not there will be alot of lifting (if they get the physics correct) and combine that with the more realistic drafting handling may have more of a part in deciding the winner then drafting strategy
