I'm more than twice that age, so...
I wonder how many of you actually tried that latest NFS version, the one with the legal racing?? It does have basic physics, but its very much let down by being developed for being driven with keyboard. In that respect it is not a simulator, but for being a keyboard game it's as good as they get. You need racing, not ricing to win, you can't take bends at a gazillion mph, you won't win by randomly crashing into everything.
But in general the LFS forum users are a flock of sheep, have one posting geek say that NFS sucks and the rest is sure to follow, so tisy, if you have an opinion that differs from the hurd, best thing is to keep it to yourself or prepare to get flamed.