Agree with Clive - Thunder Cars (and any newly-released mods) would be fun too.
Is the plan for everyone to run on one server? I do wonder if the popularity of the Spec Challenge last season had a lot to do with the fact that they were informal races (so people weren't really taking it all that seriously) & that a lot of UKGPL's fastest guys were absent on Interleague duty.
Al - the Spec Series has grown out of last seasons Sunday Drivers - which were fun races deliberately run concurrent with the Interleague races to give the mere mortals something to do. The demise of Interleague has meant there is room for a full series including our resident Aliens.
Accordingly it is more organised but will keep the same two chassis two race format. Also it's supposed to be a "fun" league and part of that is participants shouldn't have to find too much time practicing with "challenging" tracks or too many different mods (65/66/67/69). As it is drivers will be in different chassis every week.
Track selection will be a mix of original Pappy tracks plus some add ons - for example the Sunday Drivers used Zeltweg & Hockenhiem which seem to go down well.
Original plan was for an exclusive 65 series but I had underestimated the interest in other mods and that will be decided by a popular vote. However, no Thundercars etc. just
yet.
As to the number of participants / grids we will just have to see. Sunday Drivers at Zeltweg was on an evening where Interleague was cancelled and we ran two grids.
Also hoping that the Spec Series might be good vehicle attract new and additional drivers into GPL.