[Andy Riches]

I assume this would be to tighten the field? I think the majority of drivers here (me included) have enough trouble practicing enough with a car without added weight to spice things up. I don't think such a thing here would go over all that well.

Ballast can often make the car feel a touch more stable. The change is pretty subtle, not much different than e.g temp switching 10c or so. If someone is made unsafe by < 100kg ballast should they be driving the car with other people online? And yes it is generally used to close up the field, it can replicate some real life style races such as BTCC which assigns ballast for race 1 based on championship position and then races 2 & 3 based on previous race finishing position.

I got thinking about it more for the other possibility of allowing SRS to run more multi car grids also. I'm guessing the reason they dont run similar pace multicar grids that might need a small amount of BoP, such as those 2 cup cars or GTA, Fulvia, TZ & 718RS, is the BoP could need adjusting track to track and maybe they dont want to do that but success ballast could be used to level close paced cars a bit over multiple circuits rather than predefined amounts of ballast set each race before a season that would require a tester to run each track to get the BoP correct. They could just run it and let the auto-ballast sort small differences in pace out.