Talk:Gran Turismo World Championship (GT3, Beginner)/@comment-207.255.199.2-20181210060320/@comment-34804319-20181210141749

You are more or less correct. The .elf defines opponent #106 as the incomplete Stratos, but since the car is unable to appear normally in the event, the game defaults to the first car in the event list, not the global reference, as used in older PS1 games. The behaviour can be seen while running the game on an emulator with a .elf code reader. The Lancia actually is loaded for about 0.006 of a second before the event starts, before the Focus is substituted, but since this is still during the black fade-in screen to the start of the event, it is never seen by players.