Racing games can be quite cool, especially if you can destroy your own or other peoples cars*. The best racing game I ever played must have been Destruction Derby (I've wasted many hours on that game, believe me), but I was also a fan of (the very difficult and realistic) Touring Cars 2.
The answer, I believe, to your question, would be no. I'm thinking more the numerous EA Sports games, which are all clones of the previous years EA Sport games, and the clones of the clones. I have played quite a lot of fairly nonviolent soccer games in my younger days, truth be told, but endless repetitions of exactly the same games has made me dislike the genre.
*which would mean that the game includes something close to violence. Destruction of property is quite acceptable if you can't have real violence.