Title edited as it has been pointed out to me that the sale has actually ended
I picked up Descenders and Absolute Drift. Only tried the latter so far, but it’s great fun. Feels like there’s an extremely high skill ceiling to it that I am unlikely to reach. It only cost me £1 too!
I normally go for sim racers like Assetto Corsa and Automobilista, but I have a real soft spot for the old Wipeout games and the similarly-aged N-Gen. Pacer (a touch light on tracks but a perfect spiritual successor to Wipeout) and Jetborne Racing (basically a tech demo and extremely demanding with a gamepad, but worth checking out) have been fun releases in somewhat more recent years
Idk how much it fits into your understanding of racing games, but one of my favorite vibing games of all time is Slipstream.
My favorite traditional racing game is the old DiRT 2. I‘m just not much of a sim guy, I dislike having to fight the car too much, it starts to feel like I’m trying to steer a washing machine on ice. I am challenging myself with DiRT Rally 2.0 (yes, confusing) though, not sure how far I‘ll get.
Dirt Rally 2 is excellent! I’ve actually walked along a couple of the stages too, I was quite impressed by how well they recreated them. The limitations on multiplayer formats annoyed me quite a lot, but I do think it’s the only game I’ve ever played where rallycross felt like it really worked well, and I love the rallycross format