Sometimes I wish there weren't as many obstacles in the way of playing racing games with other people. All of the new stuff is just a clusterfuck for me personally.
Forza is kiiiinda messy, but more importantly I am 100% past the days of paying full price for a game that has an endless stream of DLC attached to it. Absolutely not happening. And knowing T10, they will dangle all kinds of bait on the end of that hook. Going through the 360 Forza games with that was enough to turn me off from the entire bleeding edge gaming ecosystem; I still feel hard done even today. Game pass is a non starter for me so that has no weight in any of this for me.
GT7 is also messy, and locked inside Sony's ecosystem. I still think the new consoles are about twice as expensive as they should be to make any sense and I'll probably have more technical issues with those than I would getting games to run in Linux now. Again, perhaps burned by my short time with the PS4 but that thing felt like a shitty noisy hardware dongle just to play goddamn Everbody's Golf and wipeout and I'm glad it was only on loan. I miss Everybody's Golf though.
There's a plethora of simmy racing games on PC but they lack the kind of streamlining for consistent online play that Forza or GT do. There's a ton of "fun as all hell after 30 minutes of putting mods in place but good luck ever finding more than one person to play the same mod with" games. iracing I think I'd assume everyone I'm racing is shouting slurs while driving and plays like crap too. Maybe ACC has some organized competitive mode?
But even past all that, I just don't have room to keep my wheel set up. There's only room for one obnoxiously large gaming device here and that's The DDR Pad. There's some folk around these parts I'd absolutely love to race with but at the end of the day I think I'd rather go do some doubles work instead.