Its available from several days already as you might noticed with alot of new cars, new type of races, new gamestyle and graphics and somethign verry interesting - for a first time from several editions you can play online for free even with illegal version. There are several additional type of races when playing online, and server rotate the players to choose what the next race will be - you can change all parameters including the type of game. Some cars and upgrades are unlockable not only doing the career - this wont be enough but you need to go for challange series and online ranking races! There is built in messenger to chat with friends.
My name when playing online is pcforceaway so i'm looking forward for yours!