Man, I'm extremely impressed with this game. I was interested at first, then just decided to wait for the PS+ edition, but the sale was too good to pass up.
I was up till 1am last night retrying a track just to take down Helscream from GAF by 2s when it was all said and done.
This is the most fun I've had with a racer since NFS Hot Pursuit III. I like the fact that it's just straight tracks and not open world. I know open world has a place in racing, but it's just not for me. I get extremely intimidated by large open world games because I tend to get distracted easily. This is just straight up "race down this track as fast as you can and the better you do it the more points we award". As I've seen it echoed on GAF, it reminds me of PGR4 (Which I loved).
The weather was just icing, no pun intended, on the cake for me.
Now add me to your PSN so I can challenge your scores GAF, PSN: MaynardLD50
Only side note I have is I really want to love the in-car view (so pretty), but it just takes up so much screen real estate, so dash cam for me.