I just wanted to ask, if the Spec Version of the game is required to be 3 as i only have access to Spec 2 with lower rewards and harder time trails.

I honestly never really thought through such a scenario when I redesigned all the categories last year, since surely I thought Sony's update servers would still be online and update Spec II users to Spec III.

Looking into the matter more closely (for the occasion of your new WR run), it seems I would be able to approve Spec II runs into the current categories (since its events at least seem to be held on the same courses as Spec III), whereas Spec 1 would've required entirely new categories. This has been reflected in a new rule in the game run rules I added today.

Ok, I did some digging, through the official gran turismo news ( https://www.gran-turismo.com/gb/news/gt5p ) and the gran turismo fandom wiki ( https://gran-turismo.fandom.com/wiki/Gran_Turismo_5_Prologue ), here are the links if you want to check from yourself. From some quick reading, I found out that:

• Spec I (1.0): Has 8 events and other events and I think harsh judging systems
• Spec II (2.0): has 10 events and they are updated on each class instead of 8, added one track (High Speed Ring Normal/Reverse), added 34 cars, added PP system and other things.
• Spec III (3.0): Tweaks for: difficulty AI, physics and increased earnings on the events, 3 more cars added.

So I think, that we should for now: split Spec I from Spec II and III, and maybe spec II from spec III

I'm at least personally unsure whether anyone would wish or plan to run Spec I, but I'll do a split for it if anyone ever does run it.