As someone who is into racing games this my impression of Driveclub.

Pros
Graphics to me look phenomonal and realistic, Project cars looks a bit to sterile and plastic for my taste.
Good to know the framerate is solid, I find a solid 30fps perfectly gameable.
A good AI is essential ask Gran Turismo
Weather effects
Style is also important so a crash doesn't directly mean game over since you could still earn style points
(And I hate replay function makes a racing game to easy so Thank God no replay)
Great support after launch (In june there will be 97 cars available)

Cons
There are to few cars
Some features like photo mode and weather should be in it day one
Your concern worries me a bit

Shame they didn't gave you a wheel since Force feedback wheels give you a more immersed experience.
Anyhow I've pre-ordered the game and I'm looking forward to it.

Yep only DS4's, it admittedly plays great with it, but I would also gladly try it with a wheel.

Wheels are another problem actually. Low number of wheels supported. More of a PS4 problem though. not only a DriveClub one.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=872483 highly recommend this thread to anyone interested, a lot of insight in there.

Since the real life handling models are directly transfered into the game (after that they made the cars a bit more simple to drive.)

The top region should be kind of a tie.

The hennesy venom GT, The Koenigsegg Agera R, Pagani Zonda R/Huayra and Apollo R are all mindblasting fast, which means person a would be faster with option a and person b would be better with option c. The Zonda R (being a race instead of a sports car) is in theorie the fastest, but since the handling is a bit ajusted the others should also be relatively easy to drive. And specs like accelration and archieveable top speed on the track would be practicly the same.

Sure the koenigsegg and the venom can archieve 400km/h/250mp/h + top speeds, but you will rarely drive faster than 320/200mp/h so that isn't really an issue.

I hope this answers your question. Mid range is a whole other story though, but many racing games lack a balanced mid range.

Well I must admit I was a lucky bastard to get a Thrustmaster T500 for an sort of affordable price. But I can defenitly understand if you don't want to spend more than 350 euro's on a wheel. The thrustmaster t500 and t300 are supported at launch. According to driveclub twitter.

Yeah thrustmaster is the way to go with Sony, they have some sort of collaboration and are pretty much the only supported manufacturer on the PS4 at the moment.

New gameplay which looks really great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8e0iSqNNU

Slow cars being slower than fast cars is always true if the skill levels of the drivers are close enough. That does mean that races will usually see a blend of two to 3 types of cars. That doesn't have to mean boring at all. I remember a loong time ago I and a friend were playing multiplayer NFS always choosing out of a pool of two cars, usually choosing the same. The fun was overtaking each other and winning.

Isn't this game going to have a ton of micro transaction aka pay to win? I remember a thread awhile back about it.

edit  -  nvm I'm thinking of the Ubisoft racing game

Lol I wouldn't be seen dead in that T-shirt. So as bribes go it's a pretty bad one.

Interesting impressions. Probably doesn't really interest me because I'm not really interesteed in online racing or joining a club, so it's gone in the wrong direction for me.

Sounds good, and the limited number of cars is a plus for me. More chance to compete on driving skill instead of being out tuned or not have the right car. Varied and challenging tracks is what I'm looking for, cars are just a tool.