The framerate question is not strictly relevant when the purpose of the game is to entertain. What a real life racer and legend like Shumacher goes through when using a simulator is unimportant. Marchi, you have a dedicated streak in you that keeps banging your head against the compromises necessary in the marketplace. Ideally, of course, framerates would be sky high. And just as ideally the games would look spectacular, sound amazing, etc.etc.etc. Ideally. Ideally. Ideally.
You know Marchi, you should -for your own education- buy a cheap motorcycle and do some track days. Because the way you keep harping on about arcade games it seems clear you DESPERATELY NEED a dose of reality. Really! I dont want you to get hurt or anything, but you need to experience something real and stop pussy-footing around. Stop making a fuss about games falling short and DO something. Track days are awesome, by the way! The feeling of actually being on a track and going fast is totally addicting. Michael Shumacher races motorcycles these days! Its a cool thing to do.
Seriously.. do a track day. It will snap you out of this funk of relying on game publishers to do everything for you and then hating them for falling short. I'm not trying to lecture you. But track days ROCK (and even YOU cant question the 'reality' of them.)