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SirDuck74 wrote: Depends on the deals they cut.

They may either have a deal where they can use the car in whatever series they want (and therefore can give it an ES whenever they want)

Or they may have a deal where the series the car appears in also needs to be agreed upon by the manufactuers. In which case an ES would need to be planned, and adding one later can be hard.

As for 2 and 3, it's probably not hard for them to make an ES, seeing as they pick a car, then they throw random tracks at it, adjusting the laps to be lower for slower cars, and then adjusting the gold reward based on the car. Therefore my guess is the ES is 'locked in' 1 week before the next update, as that's when it is announced. And yeah they can change it after announcement if they wanted to, many series in career have had extensions to add new cars to them, the tools are there. You make a good point about the licensing agreements that are made and how the car can be used... We see that with the NASCAR assets.

We also see it in a way with Ferrari. Ferrari's can NEVER be on sale in the game, however there can be a Special Opportunity for players to own the car. Ferrari also wants to maintain control over how their cars are represented, so only official colored paints and liveries and no vinyls.

Putting a series together is a bit harder than you think, but there can be changes made to the events within a series, however the series itself, that it is in the game, in a certain career category, etc. is locked in place when the release is packaged.