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- PJTierney
I've been doing a lot of Open Lobby racing recently, and particularly enjoy PP racing, usually at 500 or 550.
In these lobbies, car choice is generally open albeit with a few restrictions. For example, many lobbies forbid concept cars (such as the Suzuki GSX-R/4), prototypes and racing cars.
Most lobbies I visit also forbid other cars, based on a "gentleman's agreement" that said cars are overpowered and allowing those would create an arm's race where everybody would eventually end up in one of those cars in order to remain competitive.
This is an understandable request (not to use said cars) but there is an issue with this in Gran Turismo 6 in that which cars fall under this category are unclear.
Back when I used to race on Forza Motorsport 4, we called these cars "leaderboard cars", as the game had global leaderboards for every class and circuit and one could easily look up the top standings to find out which cars were the strongest. If a car was near the top of the list, everybody knew that it was not a "fair car" to use in Lobby racing, simple as.
Getting back to GT6, the issue with "leaderboard cars" is that there are no global leaderboards, only Seasonal Event boards which often have restrictions on which cars are eligible and expire after a few weeks anyway. Therefore, finding out which cars are "leaderboard cars" is difficult, and it's not until a host shouts at or kicks somebody from a lobby that many people would find out that a certain car is overpowered for its PP.
So anyway, I think it would be a good idea if we worked together to create a list of cars that can be considered overpowered for their PP, to help clear the skies a little and better inform those that do PP racing about which cars to avoid.
This is why you should use Google Docs kids 
I wrote them down on paper because it was easier when sitting in my racing seat. Who wants to get up once you get settled into your rig? I sure don't 
