I am curious, can you give me an example of a driving game on the PC that PC folks consider to have good controls?
All the folks I know who are driving game enthusiasts are console players, so I don't have a very good idea of what it would take for a PC user to think vehicle controls were good.
As long as those PC users use mouse and keyboard, they will NEVER have good controls for just about any games but top down RTSs or RPGs.
And they will never have it either.
They should buy a wheel or a controller. Much more precise controls; you don't just tell the character/car where to go, but also how fast to go there. And not just by toggling sprint by pressing a button, but by how hard they press the button/stick.
Mouse and keyboard are horrible controls for almost every single genre of games, except:
FPS
RTS
top down RPG
MOBA
Just about everything else will have shitty controls on mouse and keyboard (and vice versa, the mentioned genres of games are vastly superior with mouse and keyboard, and damn near unplayable with a controller)