While the situation for the game isn't looking super promising, the organized community is still plugging along like we have done basically every single week since FM1, although some leagues are seeing numbers drift away a bit. Plans at most leagues are to continue into the future as well, although some will be investigating whether PMR is a viable platform for inclusive racing.
We are still able to pull 15-18 for our Sentra Cup we are currently doing though. Ours is built kinda vaguely inspired by the real-life Canadian Sentra Cup series and have very limited tuning (only swaybars, brakes and diff, and tire pressures of course) and it's a pretty excellent little race car. It's surprisingly sharp for a FWD car so it's good for crossover moves, and the draft is super strong with it once you hit 5th gear.
I did several of the liveries for this season.
My own:
Cockpit Japan with chameleon stripes:
Mr. Sparkle from The Simpsons:
I wanted to do the orange/white Unisia Jecs livery but the guys didn't want primarily white cars and Forza's color thing can't really make fluorescent orange anyway, so I tried changing the color palette up and I'm actually kinda happy with how they turned out even though I was doubtful the colors would work:
A Bathurst R31 Skyline inspired one:
And a Zexel R32/R33 Skyline one:
Not sure the retro ones really work though, as the shape of the car is so different to the R31/R32.
Our other resident painter made a pair of team liveries, their own team runs the Nissan Genuine Parts livery, and they put a twist on the Sahlen's livery after painting the real-world Sahlen's livery for 10+ years now:
The Chevron is a really cool little car, and it's really good that it's available for everyone now. It's a very unique driving experience as none of the other vintage cars are like it really, giving you a bit of the lightweight and crappy tires vintage prototype experience but without the big power numbers of cars like the Ferrari 512S, so it's really comfy to drive for all skill levels. It also has interesting engine swaps that are inspired by engines that the car actually raced with in it back in the day. Sometimes it seems like the vehicle team didn't put much effort/thought into some of the upgrades/swaps for some of the cars, but this one was clearly made with some love.
I know it's a leaderboard car when upgraded, but I think that spoils it a little bit and it's better stock. It would be a great car for them to make a spec hopper with, but unfortunately I doubt that's going to happen at this point, especially since it's not an autoshow car.
One of the best quality and most interesting/meaningful additions to the game, which made it even more of a shame it was condemned to FOMO obscurity. Unfortunately it's locked behind Nurburgring stuff now, which some people will go "eww" at and probably never bother with...
