Thanks for the comments.
For the career mode, I'd love something like ToCA Race Driver combined with a calendar. In my game, you'd start with a cheap car and a kart. At first you'd go to track days or kart championship or small drag event or, small drift contest depending on where you want your career to go. Then you'd get noticed by some team that would put you in a better car either a local F3000 championship or local touring car spec championship, etc again depending on the choices you want to make. Of course you'd have objectives to meet, just like in ToCA. Then you'd get noticed by some local media and that's when a Mass Effect like dialogue system begins to appear. Essentially that's when you start building your legend. Will you be a dick making fun of rivals ? Will you be like Raikkonen and play it Ice Man style ? Each time a journalist ask you questions, it will impact your reputation and even AI as someone who's been ridiculed in the press could want revenge.
The career would then give you access to some special events. For example a driver could have been injuried and his team ask you to step in some big event like an FIA GT race.
You'd then be able to choose some championship like DTM, V8 Supercars, WTCC, WRC, BTCC, D1, NHRA (that's how the drag championship is called right ?), etc...
Again as you continue your career, you'd have options to participate to big special event like entering an ILMC race in a GT car then toward the end of your career you could enter the 24h of Le Mans in an LMP1 for example.
Of course, there would be sponsoring to manage and those would unlock some events. For example if Red Bull is sponsoring you, you'd have to make some demo with your race car in streets or if you're in a big manufacturer team, then you'd fly to Goodwood to demo the latest model, etc...
Of course this seem like the customization part of FM would be almost useless but it wouldn't as you'd still be able to enter Class races with your personal and tuned cars.
Also, all those championships would be licensed and would have the real race format (i.e 2 races in WTCC for example) as well as more or less crowd, real branding on tracks, etc...
You could also shift your career toward team managing which would essentially be a much deeper B-Spec mode.
This is more or less the basis of my ideal racing career mode.
PS: sorry if there's some mistakes, I've typed this on my iPhone.
