Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27370080-20180108174159/@comment-28169398-20180109203823

24.209.245.110 wrote: We got a Porsche, after they licensed with another game, why can't we still get nascars? Because there is a difference between a car company and an officially licensed race series with a branded app.

If there was a Porsche Racing App, then I would say it is interesting that there would be new content in other apps, but that isn't what happened.

If FMEA had an exclusive contract with Porsche, which I am not sure if they did or did not, then it likely expired, meaning that Porsche could license the brand with other software developers. That does not preclude them from licensing to FMEA, unless they had subsequently licensed exclusively to another developer. We still do not have the 911 GT2 RS, which set the Nürburgring lap record, so for that car, Porsche may have given either an exclusive license, or possibly a license that gave a set period of time where it was exclusive to the other developer.

As for F1. Like with NASCAR Heat, CodeMasters have the Official License for the series. You won't see 2017 F1 cars because there is a 2017 F1 game. I am wondering if you may not see the 2018 McLaren-Renault, as they may have negotiated a different rights agreement with Liberty Media than they had with Bernie Ecclestone, but that is highly speculative based on the McLaren MP4/4 and a McLaren vs Renault Time Trial Stage at Red Bull Ring in the Weekly Time trial. Some times FM hints at future content with things like this but most of the time nothing comes of it....