I believe that Windows Games Live is already dead.
Portugal in the house (I'm from Coimbra)! ;) Also against slicing stages in 2 ou more parts! If you want to use the same stage, make it reverse also. And that's about it!Richard Burns Rally is the only "real" rally game that I still play today and it's been almost 9 years since it was out.
The usual WRC stuff but with longer stages and a Dakar style career, with navigation playing a big part in it. As you all know, the greatest names in WRC all end up on big offroad races like the Dakar ;)