[Igor Relja]

Earlier reveiling will help with training and painting for sure.

But, people with not so much free time at their hands have a more equal chance to get going in the new series - a compromise could be letting us now which car (for the painters) but not which tracks - so on monday everyone starts with about the same amount of training.

I can live with it as it is now, always appreciated the effort SRS put in to set them up!

True, but you can look it from the other side too. If somebody can't practice during the weekend, they are at disadvantage over those who can grind Monday car during Saturday and Sunday. I think it's bigger difference between 1 day of practice and 2/3 (what we have now) than 3 days and 5/7 (what it would be if it's announced a week earlier).

It happened two or three times already that a car had to be changed after it was announced due to legal reasons. I assume it happens regularly that they have to clear up legal questions before they can officially announce the series.

I believe that there are a lot of logistical problems that the admin can come across in organizing a series, including copyrights and unwillingness of some modders to share their tracks/cars, but this could be a problem only for the first time the announcements are pushed in advance. After that there are still 6 weeks to organize a new one, same as now. If anything, a week earlier gives the admin more time for those adjustments. Same goes for some car/track mods. There were a couple of cases where the car was released shortly before the race, resulting in some late hotfixes for bugs that were found during the first race. Earlier announcement would (hopefully) would end up in more offline testing and people could report possible bugs in time.

I'm personally fine either way. I'm very picky about the races (I'm not even committed to entire series, just the combos I really enjoy) so if I miss a race or two because I can't practice, it's no big deal for me. Maybe I would paint a skin or two. But there are probably people who are more affected. And maybe (but just maybe ) it would result in less people coming in Monday race and asking which tyres are going to last or how much fuel they need.