One of my favourite genres!
I touched upon it in an old topic Recommend: additional, different modes outside of the main game
Vanishing Point
A beautiful 60fps racer (more time attack than vs) on Dreamcast with very sensitive controls. I learned to love them. Plays better with MadCatz third-party controller IIRC.
Also on PS1 but I’ve not played that version. I expect it controls tighter?
Stunt Mode was set courses that needed to be driven in set times. Some involved barrel rolls, bursting balloons in time limit, jumping certain distances, etc. Half driving test, half stunts. All gold.
San Francisco Rush 2049
This has a stunt mode, but also an Obstacle Course mode.
Stunt mode is OK, but very difficult, and you need to master that to unlock Obstacle Course - which I have not been able to do so far!
MX vs ATV: Untamed
Really tight off road game I’d never heard of before, until I found out that it had a great stunt “GAP” mode which sees you jumping off buildings, over tractors, doing spins and tricks and all sorts. Some challenges can be a bit cryptic, I’m not down with the MX/ATV lingo, so I had to google them to figure out what to do. Superb though.