R&D isn't currently planned until after combat, so there is a long way to go and any speculation is only very tentative. I would expect, though, that allowing R&D to overcome race limitations isn't something that would be easy, and I haven't heard of any plans to do so. No amount of research is going to help you get a Hutt inside a fighter-sized cockpit.
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I dare you to make less sense.
Are you a newbie, or do you have access to newbies?
The only way this would work is to make a ship only usable by that race... so make a special Hutt only ship that other races cannot enter at all or something