Why is race mode limited to the Mercedes AMG Project One?

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This has been a thing since launch, I don’t quite understand why. Why is the Mercedes-AMG Project ONE the only car with race mode?

Let me explain. In FH5, race mode can make your car do various things. The rear wing can activate, or maybe the suspension lowers. The developers really hyped up this feature before the launch of FH5, however, it’s only on one car?

There are many other cars that have race mode or sport mode in real life. The amount of cars with active aero in this game is too many to count. Here’s a list of some cars that could and should have a race/sport mode:

McLaren P1
Porsche 918
Jaguar F Type
Ford GT
Porsche Panamera
McLaren 720S

And many more. The fact that race mode was so hyped up, but we only get it on one car, is just frankly disappointing. The question is…why? Why is it just on the Project One?

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ford mustang mach e 1400

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Not sure if that counts. When I mean race mode, I mean like what the AMG one has with active aero. Not a full drivetrain change

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I really can’t remember race mode being hyped by PGG…
Can only remember them making a deal about the convertibles.

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They at least made a tweet showing the change from drive to race mode in the AMG One and the animation of changing modes was in a lot of the the trailers and promotional stuff. Just like they made a point of showing the 720 spider top going down and then it applied to all of 5 cars in the game…

Are there any other car besides the AMG One and Mach E Mustang that can toggle drive mode in the game?

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Nope

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Because it is an experimental and unfinished feature. The AMg was exclusive when it was released and it came with that extra detail. Thats all. Dont expect any other car now or in the future to have it. And dont expect, unfortunately to see the convertible system feature of the game improved in any way.

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I hate to use the word lazy but it seems to apply to this.

Is too difficult to put the same spoiler up/lower suspension feature used on the AMG One to other cars in the game? Several cars in the game have the feature in real life,

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They can do that but the modes are two different things. The track mode makes the car handle well and the other gives it a high top speed. Animated spoilers are just animated and don’t do anything about the handling (in the game)

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We already have active aero on the cars I listed, so I think it’s kind of lazy that they can’t just change how the aero activates. You just have to change the aero so you can turn it on manually instead of turning on at a certain speed

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Fair point as well, perhaps something they can revisit in a future update

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Don’t forget the Subaru STi’s have different modes, and can turn torque vectoring on and off via switch too… WHAR TURN TEN WHAR???1

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The ones I listed were just examples. There are hundreds of cars in Forza that could use a sport/race mode

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Well, the Rimac concept2/Nevera has the computing power of 15 PS5/14 Xbox X series consoles, almost every parameter of its 4(one per wheel) engines can be altered. Front wheel, yeah, front left and back right ooh kinky but the car will oblige. Four wheel is standard and fastest.
The car can also drive itself better then any human can, so how should they implement that in a videogame