I probably won't rush into it either but I would like to try it out at some point.
Race engineer, career mode and those weather effects are all something rf2 could learn from.
But it still seems to have some arcade elements like going over kerbs and offroad like nothing, bad (first lap) AI and driving racing cars on snow
They will probably release more content and also improve the game so some of the concerns the reviewer had are weird at this point.
-Matt