Yeah, small coupes and sedans are where it's at.
Cool rivalry I'd these ever make it.
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I blame the developer being Japanese as the reason they miss so many iconic cars from around the world. For some reason, Britain's car and motorsports history is at least as rich and complex as Japan's, yet most of their icons have been left out for 20+ years now. I wish PD would weight history more heavily and make sure their historical catalogue is full before they start adding modern, boring cars that nobody will use anyway.
Nissan Onroak DPi Tequila Patron ESM '17 (Gr.1)
Speaking of DPI, I think we've got plenty of evidence suggesting that they don't belong in GR1. Unless we make GR1 a multi-class with two different sets of BOP. PD is absolutely going to have to address this at some point in the future because existing DPI and LMP2 cars, along with the new LMH and LMDH classes run similar speeds and are way slower than even the vintage LMP1 cars.
If we want a realistic BOP for DPI et al, they should be included in GR2. Modern GT500 cars actually run similar speeds as DPI, LMP2, and the newer "top" classes. Realistically, all of these cars should fit into GR2 and have a reasonable BOP.
The other option would be to admit that "GR2" as it is, including only GT500 cars, was a mistake and isn't reflective of actual world series. I'm sure they could make this change to both games without too much trouble but us players would be forced to deal with it. As it is, there are way more cars
not included in GR2 than there are actually in it, and all the ones not in it actually make way more sense.
I personally wouldn't be mad if they just slapped LMP2, DPI, LMH, and LMDH all into GR2 along with GT500 and suddenly we get a massive field of cars which might become one of the most popular categories. I've run some experiments on the GT500 cars at Le Mans and while they're not capable of very high speeds they are still rather quick around the track. Skill-wise I'm not capable of running the ~3:30 laps that LMP2 does, but in the low-df setting and only gearing changes the GT500 cars can nearly match the actual LMP2 max speed of ~199 mph. It would be well within the game's BOP abilities to match these categories.
That is unless we make GR1 a true multi-class category. That also makes sense given that it's the essence of Le Mans. Have LMP1 cars go LMP1 speeds while having LMP2 and DPI match up and having LMH/LMDH match up. Three classes in one.