Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-38662856-20191010053420/@comment-43421298-20191010184756

DecadeHansen wrote: ESA-Car-6O wrote: Also, why add 2018 GTE cars to the 2019 series? Why not put them in the 2018 series? The 2018 GTE cars (i.e. the new Ford GTE, the Ferrari 488 GTE EVO and the last Aston Martin Vantage GTE before the model change) debuted in the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans, which is equivalent to 2019 Season in the game. 2018 Season is for cars appearing in the 2018 (Duh!) 24 Hours of Le Mans (although the 2018 911 RSR in the game is but a fictional concept car based on the 2017 911 RSR with white headlights, while the 2019 911 RSR in the game is the car that won the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans in the GT class).

So, theoretically, the Vantage GTE based on the newer Vantage 59 would be used for the 2020 Season. Well, no.

Look up "2018 Vantage GTE" and you'll find it's the latest edition of the car (the one "based on the newer Vantage 59"). As for the others, the "new" Ford appears to be identical to the 2016 edition (my guess is it'll get more liveries), and I think the 488 Evo has been in the running for awhile before the 2018 LM. (If you google it, you'll get results dating from late 2017). As for the RSRs, the in-game 2018 version is neither "fictional," nor a "concept," but essentially the version of the car that ran the latter half of the 2017 season and the entirety of the 2018-19 super-season. The in-game 2019 RSR is "fictional" insofar as it's identical to the 2018 edition and the actual 2019 version of the 911 RSR is the one unveiled at Goodwood this year, which is currently running in the 2019-20 season of the WEC.

Let's not try to wrest reason from FM "creativity."