Here's my review that no-one will ever read.
Reasons for review:
1. To bump this up in the positives as it deserves it.
2. I've played 70 hours and continue to play it so my opinion counts compared to the reviews at 2 hours minus who don't even give it a chance.
3. I own 10+ Rally games including all the major ones and the predecessor to this one.
4. To stop Steam asking me for a review all the time.

Points:
1. This is in my opinion the best Rally game ever created if you can run it well and have the 24 track expansion. I say this from a person who doesn't play online ever and uses an Xbox 1 controller with the view from the bonnet cam.
2. The career mode is absolutely superb.
3. The competition in career is incredible, as long as you take time to get the difficulty setting adjusted to your abilities (as the previous one). There is a 0-100% slider so is good for any level.
4. Graphics are beautiful and run smoothly on my desktop.
5. The sense of speed you get from this game is amazing at time. The only comparison there is Ride on the Edge 2 - motorbike game admittedly.
6. The need to manage your car throughout the event is brilliant. On extreme damage settings it's really a must and very competitive.
7. Car settings and management are a must if you want to win events.
8. The crashes and physics are amazing. Better than any other rally game so far. Crashes where the bonnet flies up to obscure the windshield and eventually breaks off. Running on a flat with 4 miles to go and the last 2 you're just on a bare wheel.
9. All cars handle and sound differently. The engine sounds are superb.
10. You can customise the look of your car and team logo and manage finances and engineers.
11. Excellent goals set with something to strive for, sense of progression is great.
12. Weather effects are excellent and make a difference. Rain, snow etc.
13. The music is great. Some of the best I've heard in a game. So much so I went looking for it online to download it.
14. I could go on but never meant this to be long as no-one will read it anyway.

Only downside is: The commentary is repetitive (and sometimes blatantly wrong) and Sean Bean is there again with his many different pleb English accents that sound to me false and annoying. I just left him behind in another game I was playing (Ghost Contracts Assassin 2) he was the operator. He just gets everywhere on these games now and it's just flipping annoying.
Luckily you can turn it off.

Performance is a complete joke. and kernel level anti-cheat for single player game is a horrible move.

crashed 1st corner, 10/10