Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27095714-20160310073425/@comment-26715739-20160312171344

RomGuyony wrote: 5 weeks plus 7 weeks, 12 weeks for two releases, 6 weeks per release. It may be that they had to bring forward the Daytona 500 Update to coincide with the real-life event (it would have been over before the update was release, otherwise) and because the Ford Update was very light. Just a theory, though, you may be correct too. True, although that 5 weeks wasn't a "full" update (4.0.1 to 4.0.5) - it was over the Australian summer holidays though which is probably more important. The tail end of this release is overlapping the Easter holiday break as well - all of which carves chunks out of development time.

Also, looking at timings for future releases - the following release after the April release (likely early June) would be expected to be this year's Le Mans update. So that would mitigate against making the April release too large.

As always... we speculate, but eventually all we can do is wait and see :-P