Talk:2019 Champion Series/@comment-28729111-20191201211157/@comment-43421298-20191214174746

"But the races all HAD to be 3 laps to balance the M$ you earn and the M$180,000 daily cap."

How so? In most of F1, the ratio is M$~10K/lap. You can calculate how much you'd be getting per a 6/8-lap race. Not only that, but you can extrapolate from races of that length in the Invitational Series. The only reason why FM limited the race distance is so that there would be more traffic in the tab - and also more incentive to FU for longer races.

As for track length, Spa is obviously the longest, but it's not such a whopping difference (S'stone to Spa is just over 1 km). The F1 tracks are basically all within roughly 5-7 kms, and if you look at the M$ payouts in the 2019 Championship, the value doesn't correlate strictly with the distance. Here, too, the decision to just use those 5 tracks was probably to make thing easier for the devs, unless the deal with F1 specifically named the available tracks.