So I have a couple thousand hours across different sim racing games, and honestly this doesn’t have any appeal to me.

I like the skill and the challenge of racing, but just aimlessly driving around would be a terrible idea. No times to chase, no desire to improve, no players to challenge you and your driving.

There is a game which is potentially going to have this sort of gameplay, Assetto Corsa Evo, they have plans for an open world area around the Eifel area of Germany, which has the Nordschleife as the centre of it.