Talk:2018 Commodore ZB Championship/@comment-70.68.90.54-20181001010109/@comment-28169398-20181002214430

It takes several months for them to design and add new cars and tracks, so the 2018 cars have been in the works since they had the specs and liveries from the Series.

What they may have not know was the status of the negotiations of the licensing for assets into the future. It seemed likely last year that they were loosing their NASCAR license due to the NASCAR Heat mobile game, but we got the 2018 cars, which likely means that they had a contract through to the end of this year.

The negotiations on Australian Supercars may have fallen through more recently and FMEA actually thought they would continue, but in the end didn't get the license going forward, or the terms to continue to "sell" the 2016-18 cars was unfavorable and was left out of the new contract.

So it may have been that they new about NASCAR for some time and had planned to make the announcement now but added the Supercars to that due to more recent developments.