For anyone that doesn’t have a lot of time to race, I think having a separate unranked quick medium duration race mode with class specific hoppers is missed, for me personally anyway, no practices so we ain’t waiting around for 20 minutes to have a 10 minute race, no qualifying, no tyre wear or fuel management, has no affect on skill or safety rating, race tyres restricted to medium compound so its balanced, like a classic forza mode, quick hop in hop out racing
then have a ranked mode with long length duration races with no class specific hoppers, just car divisions with preselected parts similar to forza gt and touring cars currently, have the spotlight car of the week how it is now but again with preselected parts so it’s balanced for everyone, same tyres for all cars in ranked play in there respective hoppers so it either requires a pit stop for everyone or it doesn’t, could even have leagues similar to forza 2 I believe and other games which have done this which will aid in racing with likeminded people over time
As an extra, I’d love to see a fun quirky online mode similar to horizons eliminator but with hints of there infected game mode but have it a destruction derby style battle royal, last car standing, having different durability/health bars for different cars based on weight maybe, could make use of eagle rock and make it useful instead of it being boring, put a figure of 8 in the middle of it, it’ll be fun for friends to play together without being serious and will give the dirty rammers a game mode made for there level of skill