I worked for an op, and I can tell you that Rush 2049 was the best driving game, hands down. Some of the new ones may be better but they're pretty cost prohibitive. With that said, I doubt their better, either, lol.
It's fun as hell and never gets old, they spent a lot of time I guess designing it. The tracks have shortcuts that are designed so well it's hard to get them perfect every time and the whole way the game is designed makes it where you want to play just one more race. It's hard to make a game easy enough to be fun but hard enough to be replayable. The quality of that game is on par with Midway/Atari's other stuff, awesome driver.