Those retro racers are nice for nostalgia, however games like Ridge Racer, Wipeout, Burnout, NFS, Motorstorm, Drive Club, etc were all about pushing tech ahead. They were made to make the consoles look good, eye candy while smashing through beautiful scenery. Retro racers are not for me, I can just put Burnout 3 Takedown in the ps2 and play that or Wipeout on PSVR.

RR deserved its death. R4 was the last good one.

I noticed that there is a new lawn mower sim, made me think of a burnout lawn mower arcade racer. imagine the possibilities?

It's actually a thing (lawn mower racing) I learn new things every day!

Redout's another fun ride

Yeah I ran across it about 10 years ago , but since then I have had to combat the urge to turn up to a race with an old push blade mower strapped to my back like some swordsman from the past.

There's been a hole in the market ever since NFS went off the rails. Usually, there's only a choice between a full-on simulation or over-the-top craziness. Besides Forza Horizon there's really nothing good that has come out for a long time that ticks those particular boxes. The Horizon games have that perfect blend, especially with the settings menu and options to have more realistic steering, braking, etc., or less realistic and with more aid.

Yes, issue is they need to figure out how and so far they haven't figured out how. Gran Turismo has the right idea I think. One game for the duration of the gen with regular updates. 

EA flooded the market with a ton of shite and then went on to kill Burnout

Sega Rally, Daytona and Ridge Racer died along with arcades.

Motorstorm had just bad luck and then they messed up the launch of DriveClub.

Racers don't have a story and the ones that do are just so boring / cliche. Stick to the pure racing. Bring on the tracks, bring on customisation, clubs, liveries, crash mode from Burnout, add content including AI simulation to drive whilst you are away and build it like MK where you have shit tons of unlockables for every little thing you do.