GTA 5 Expanded & Enhanced to overhaul racing, cars

Based on the mined info, it seems that Rockstar Games is giving the racing system a shakeup, either with some tweaks across the board or in the shape of a new multi-class variant where players can mix vehicles from more or less the entire range available in-game. With hard facts being as few as they are, it's also possible this is another riff on the Transform Races.

Six vehicles - each from different classes, with new performance tweaks most likely designed to help balance them out - are included in a new unused vehicle class that has been linked to previously unseen racing markers that were data mined back in December. These new icons have a shield logo with what looks like a "H" in it, and one is a time trial variant.

The vehicles up for an overhaul based on the code are the Brioso R/A, Sentinel XS, Turismo Classic, Banshee, Deveste Eight and the Hakuchou Drag. It is unclear if these performance tweaks are envisioned to be global, or only affecting this new racing mode - though it would be odd if the same vehicle performed significantly differently game mode to game mode.

Whatever ends up being the case, it looks like this new racing mode will have a Creator attached, like most DLC races did over the past few years. The new unused vehicle class with the six rides awaiting an update was initially dug out of the Creator, and hopefully that isn't just a temporary testing solution used by the devs - remember, this is all stuff that is work-in-progress and supposedly not to be seen by players.

We'll only know any of these details for sure in March, when the Expanded and Enhanced port releases worldwide.