So I had some time playing this game now. There is one thing I would just want to write down lol. Progression in Forza Horizon 5 feels way different from 4.

In general there are few types of races which are all fun in their own right. You have normal circuit-racing as well as point-to-points, The same but at night called street racing, dirt-races which are on a muddy surface, races through basically everywhere (german calls them querfeldein) and drag-races.

In 4 you would need to complete a certain number of events for each category to progress through the rounds. After three rounds you would have a big race (like a long one). I had fun with that progression.

5 throws all of that in the bin. the progression is only tied to points you can collect in story-missions, danger-signs, the races, etc. The big races at the end is not tied to progressing through the respective "series" at all. I was doing a lot of story missions (which are fun tbh) but that lead to me getting many points. So I already unlocked the big races for street-races and curcuit without even doing one race in the respective series. That feels weird.

Though I suppose they did it that way since it is required to get into the "Hall of Fame" for the last missions of some stories. This one is unlocked by getting enough points,