Aside for the horrible popup, I thought it looked alright.
And at least it was one of the 3 remaining racing games on the show that didn't have you driving around freaking Tsukuba
I agree with this and would even say that it looks damn good in motion. I was sad to see that the control and physics were straight outta 1994, however.
I thought visually it was pretty nice for being a racer on PS2 hardware. Sure it gets stomped by RSC2 but otherwise against the small crowd of PS2 rally racers I think it could end up being alright.