Lou's interview with Dario Franchitti besides touting FE as being "progressive" and "forward-thinking" also contains news.
First, Lou said that the FE track in NYC is in Real Racing. This might be merely a reference to the simulator version of the game instead of to the publicly available game, or not. We shall see.
Second, Lou said that next FE season that there will be FE time trials in RR3 a week (or two) ahead of each FE race, and that the winner will be flown to the FE race and will compete against the professional drivers in the simulator. We have seen such a competition already, so barring some tweaks to it, that is what we shall see. The question that remains, however: Will the time trials include the FE tracks, so that, for example, the TT ahead of the race in Marrakesh will include or feature the track in Marrakesh? And will such tracks, if they are included in the TTs, be available only in the TT and only during the TT, or will they be added permanently to the game?