It might come out surprisingly early this time. A lot of things that the update is expected to contain seem finished, there has been a lot of updates to qa_latest lately and BeamNG.tech is switching to 4 updates per year, and it would make sense for .drive to do the same.
Just did a banger race and this is the most enjoyable one i have done for a while. mainly because i figured out how to make the cars actually crash into one another and not just avoid each other. the rwd wendover i drove was 3rd out of eight in order of what cars survived the longest. first place was an etk 800 that never broke it's radiator .