2019 Panini Prime Racing Forum

I see Panini Prime racing set is now posted on the site.  There are over 150 parallel and insert  sets listed and many or most will not match the numbering that Panini shows on their site.  Most will be numbered as a prefix and the driver's initials. To avoid the past Panini disasters, I would ask that anyone working on the checklists for this set not rush to get them loaded by copying from Panini's site.  Please take a little time to make sure that you know the proper numbering.  It will save a lot.of time and effort  if we don't have to go back and fix them after the fact as has been the case with almost all Panini sets that have been posted recently. 
Take my word for it, it's a whole lot easier and better to do a little research and get it done right the first time.

What he said ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ditto to both posts! PRIME is so much more complicated than any other Panini NASCAR release. That's part of why I haven't even tried to makes CL's for it yet. There are just not enough examples out there yet.

Personally, I think Panini needs to do 1 of 3 things with this product. #1 would be to dump it entirely. Only case-breakers are busting this product b/c the real fans don't have that much money to spend for 10 cards and/or have not seen it to be worthy of that much money so far. BTW, I'm in the 2nd scenario. The case breakers aren't even doing it to re-sell anymore but to sell slots of drivers for the break.

#2 is for Panini to put out actual and correct CL's instead of random mess that has to be figured out after the release.

#3 is to drop the price in half again! They already did it once when they changed the product from National Treasures @ $500 for 10 cards to Prime @ $250 for 10 cards. The main problem is the MEM's are NOT "prime" for the price they are charging.

I guess there is actually a fourth option too. That would be to add more base cards to each box. Set collectors might actually go after this if there were 10-11 base cards instead of just 1. Just b/c the base set is SN50 doesn't mean the 50-card base set should be that hard to complete. For those unfamiliar with Prime Racing: a box @ $250 gets you 10 total cards in one pack. Each pack/box has 1 base card (SN50) OR a base parallel (SN25 or less). The rest of the cards are all AU, MEM or AU/MEM. But the SN's on those cards have a drastic range and plenty of versions to pull. If you don't pull a 1/1 of something from a box, you basically bust at their price. And even if you do pull a 1/1, it could still be a bust b/c you pulled the wrong driver or something that isn't even a patch. At least it is only the top-tier drivers (Cup Series) in the product, but a third of those drivers don't have a big fan base either.

Just for a example, I have added the 4 Timeline Signature inserts and parallel insert sets and I spent about 45 minutes.  If the sets were added using the Panini checklists it would have taken far longer to get them right.  Would need an IR for each set and then 2 L8's to approve the IR. And that is not counting the time it would take to do the sets incorrectly(which for sake of argument would be 30 minutes.

Just do it right the first time