ToCA and ToCA 2 were immense !! Even on the old PlsyStation that game felt amazing, weather, AI that raced you, pit chatter, upto 20 on the grid and the damage that affected your car.
When Race Driver went all for every motorsport under the sun they lost it, they should have stayed with Touring Cars but across the world. Like DTM, V8, WTCC, Super GT (Japanese) etc... ToCA was always about the racing imo.
It seems now that every racing game with cars always has to cater to drifting and this spoils the game usually and takes away from the core of what they should be, pure circuit racers where if you drift you're last, simple as.
Let the drifters have their fun but don't cater to them, if the physics engine is any good then powersliding and drifting shouldn't need a special feature or section of the game, it should just be done within the limits of the physics engine itself ala Forza 2 and GT5 P (console wise).