Not as good as the original.
Walls suck up your speed instead of bouncing you off
Getting hit slows you down too much and also the weapon balancing is terrible.

Blue Fire while nice for single player and time trails destroys any sensable meta for multiplayer. Could have been amazing if they paid attention to the little things that made the original so great as a multiplayer game.

A good racing games's meta is about everybody wanting to take first place. This game is about the lower ranks fighting each other while the first place drives away. The meta is so messy and the more I think about it the less I can believe how bad they messed this up.

There is two options:
If you want the best player to win:
Make a no weapons race
If you want to make hype races:
Balance the game around everybody Vs. First Place with First Place changing frequently.

This game archives neither