THE BEST CAR ON iRACING IS A FLOP 

This might be a big ask but I think the gen 4 car would excel if they made it a B-A license class series and had it follow a race schedule from the 90s-00s as an era series, plenty of people love the 87s and the nostalgia associated with those cars. Many of us on the oval side of iracing grew up watching the gen 4 car and have a lot of love for it. I personally don’t run the gen 4 outside of the supers and mile and a half races because the barrier for entry is to low at C class. I’m not trying to say I’m the second coming of Dale Sr. But I don’t like running with guys that are still struggling with throttle control…

for me, the lack of cautions is the reason i like arca or draftmaster the most at iracing oval.

Saying that this car is a flop when there's 6000 people who have raced it in one season is crazy. Changing the format of the races or entry level would be dumb. Even with changes it's still not going to be the most popular. Here's some reasons why it's not the most popular asphalt car. 1. It has to compete with C Fixed, the most popular series on oval, in the same license class. Moving it to B class wouldn't really change anything and it'll just lessen the amount of possible drivers. 2. The car isn't run IRL anymore. People would rather run the series with current day cars than a throwback series. Historical series normally don't get as much people as modern series. 3. The car is hard to drive. Most people would choose the easier car to drive at one given track. 4. The car bodies still don't handle contact very well since the bumpers don't line up. This is a turnoff at plate tracks and makes 1 mile and shorter tracks a nightmare to try and drive.

Love practicing gen 4, I struggle committing to putting the time/effort into actually figuring a track out and then racing in a given week. But it’s one of my favorite cars to just run laps with or run a quick ai race if I’m short on time

make it a open series and let setup shops flood the market. Cautions and longer races are not a factor if you look at the cup and B series. It comes down to the lower class level having too many options, or the saturation of popularity in the top 3 tiers of championship racing.

Personally I split my time on iRacing between Gen 4 Cup and Nascar legends. Those cars and races have the best driving dynamic and fun factor out of anything iRacing has to offer. Each are an absolute handful but there’s no comparing the two as they’re genuinely totally different animals! That being said the most common trend I see is simply people that don’t practice what so ever before jumping into a race and for the life of me I don’t understand why especially with how good ai setups are! I genuinely believe if folks would get it through their head to practice for at least an hour or if iRacing would buck up and mandate you have to practice or time trail before a race both these series would skyrocket again as they would be less likely to be a wreck fest as well as more competitive. Not saying it isn’t a problem across all of iRacing but these two serious are the most notorious.

Most guys struggle with a heavy right foot in the Arca cars. Gen4 are a blast but they actually require finess with the throttle and some race craft and strategy helps I think this scares most off. Top split gen4 races are where some of the true fast oval buys live.