[headline]Season 8[/headline]
Season 8 is the last one in GT5 given the GT6 release date. For once we were invited to give suggestions on the car and track, any my suggested car was by far the popular choice. So we will all be running in the drifty Alfa 8C. Tier 1 drivers will be racing with Sport Medium tyres while Tier 2 drivers get Sports Soft. A couple have Racing Hards. When doing solo laps the soft tyres give me a 1.5 second per lap advantage, however the tyre life is shorter, and half way into the ~20 minute race I have to be very careful to avoid slides. Besides that all cars are 100% stock besides custom rims with colours used to differentiate players.
Car colours show teams, I was chosen to be on the black team. Only the top-2 placing drivers per team contribute to the team score, in case the 3rd/4th members don't show up each week.
As per before there is a brief qualifying window to set your fastest lap time, which is used to set the grid order for the 3 lap practice race. The outcome of this race has no points implication but is used to get the first-race-jitters out of the way and to set the grid for Race 1. Race 2 and 3 are reverse grids based on the previous race results.