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This article was published by Andrew Evans (@Famine) on November 22nd, 2020 in the Gran Turismo Sport category.
Might have missed it, but how were the Gr.3 cars decided for the competitors? Random draw?
Must be, I doubt anyone would purposely choose the RS01 or RCZ, or a non-Toyota hybrid LMP1 at Monza. Would've been fairer if it was all Group C cars.
I can guarantee you that they shot the event "live to tape." Basically, for all intents and purposes, it is a live event. Editing or cleaning up anything would be akin to fixing a live broadcast for later re-airing. Not impossible by any means but I can easily see PD/Sony not wanting to spend the money and manpower to do so.
I joined the stream a few minutes late and walked away during a few of the commentary moments but I didn't hear an explanation of that at all. But considering that I didn't see more than one of any given car it must have been some sort of random assignment. I imagine that if they didn't the first two races would essentially be one makes, as well.
So the cars for Race 1 and Race 2 were chosen by the drivers in World Ranking order. Everything Gr3 and Gr1 were available to the drivers as far as I'm aware. Basically the higher ranked you were the more choices of car you had left to chose from. These cars were chosen a week or two before the event.
I’m a little surprised that they didn’t announce the time of the Americas regional in any Americas time zones.
Thanks. But that's not on the video. But yeah, it's not too hard to figure out.
Must be, I doubt anyone would purposely choose the RS01 or RCZ, or a non-Toyota hybrid LMP1 at Monza. Would've been fairer if it was all Group C cars.