There are other ways they could have done it Sausehuhn. I almost made the comment myself that they could have added the missing ships from the series. But I deleted it because I thought that would have only been a couple of new ones, right? It would be really cool for people who liked those ships because they'd get their favourites, but maybe they'll still come. In the mean time there are a lot more ships now than that option would have brought. Perhaps though, they could have created brand new teams with different stat balances in, but you're right, that would have been a lot more work, possibly, and I don't think they could create a whole 12 more ships without repeating stats unless some stats were bumped up.

I wouldn't see the point in arbitrarily changing ship stats either. There's only a certain amount you could change them and the end result would probably just be a equivalent to a change of ship skin. Ultimately I think that method would have been even more pointless.

If the record tables were completely separated in terms of Fury ships and HD original ships, then there'd be zero wrong with introducing the new ones. As it goes, there's not a huge amount wrong with it, as you can still win races easily in the old ones. Just trying to show that my fav ship is no 'clapped out old crap racer.'