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Message: [QUOTE="GRM Bandit, post: 12642817, member: 302625"] [CENTER][B]The Offseason Articles: Livery and Car Reveals Week 1 [/B][/CENTER] These are some exciting times for sure! The Space Radish has finally announced dates for the NES Season 4.5 events, the Nurburgring 1 Hour event reached the maximum entry limit in nine hours, and teams are looking for permanent drives for Season 5. But today is especially important, because the NES Group Chat has been exploding with livery and potential car reveals. This week, we have reveals form Nukeshot Motorsport, Ravenwest Motorsport, and Motul Racing, with a guest teaser from the Virtual Endurance Racing Team. So without further delay, lets show off some liveries! [CENTER][B]Nukeshot Motorsport [ATTACH=full]799898[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]799899[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]799900[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]799901[/ATTACH] [/B][/CENTER] It would appear that the glorious Space Radish has decided to keep the same color scheme as Season 4, but updated some of the sponsors and design elements. While the BMW Z4 looks to be the Space Radish's choice of GT3 machine for Season 5, the LMP is not the R18 from last season. So is our favorite radish looking at a new contract with Toyota? It would certainly make sense with BMW and Toyota collaborating on the new Supra. But in a casual conversation with the Radish himself, he did say that car choice is not final. I think that Space Radish is trying to mislead us, and he is actually going to pick the Z4 GT3/TS030 combo. However, I could be wrong. [CENTER][B]Motul Racing [ATTACH=full]800014[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]800015[/ATTACH] [/B][/CENTER] Mika's new team Motul Racing has a few spy shots, the first from the Nurburgring, and the second from Monza. While Mika says he is confirming the discount C7.R, the Aston Martin looks to be either the first or alternate choice. Sadly Mika has confirmed in a previous interview that a LMP program is not a high priority of Motul Racing. Although Nukeshot could give Mika a contract in place of the Rotterdam team, Grip Runners has also expressed interest in the Dutchman (having signed him for the NES 4.5 GR.4 events). It will be interesting though to see how the rest of the Motul Racing team's livery fleshes out. I still have high hopes for Mika this season, and his GT3 program will definitely add some variety into the AM class. [CENTER][B]Ravenwest Motorsport [ATTACH=full]800019[/ATTACH] [/B][/CENTER] British driver Jim has went German with his car choice. The Ravenwest cars look subtle, a nice addition to a GT field full of harsh color changes (looking at you Space Radish). It also seems that Jim is using some quick German promotional cars to advertise the new Ravenwest team. [CENTER][B]Virtual Endurance Race Team [ATTACH=full]800059[/ATTACH] [/B][/CENTER] As of right now, Virtual Endurance Race Team owner CJ has only given the press a singular photo. VERT's full reveal soon to come. This concludes NES's Week 1 Season 5 livery and car reveals. We will return to the regular articles for next week. Until then, I'm GRM_Bandit, and I'll see you on the race track! **Edits** Nukeshot's livery reveal used the Toyota TS030, not the TS050. Edited grammar and sentence structure in the Motul Racing reveal. Edited the caption under Ravenwest's reveal due to the team's car choice being unconfirmed. [/QUOTE]

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