there was a rumour awhile ago where they said, the restart race option would be patched in during one of the updates. anyone know when its coming?

I'm not sure exactly when. Why not just wait for The Ultimate Box if you're planning on buying it?  That's supposed to come with all the updates.

They are bringing out a patch for restarting races (they showed it in their Video Podcast). However, they haven't said WHEN yet. I'd imagine around the time the Ultimate Box comes out.

You have to pay for it. I'm am not. I'm just gonna stop playing it altogether.

Alright!  Just in time for me to have completed all the single player events nearly a year ago! 

If that feature had been there when I got it I would have kept playing...

I'm amazed that this feature is such a big deal to people, because it's such an insignificant thing. All you have to do is race to one side of the map, then take 2 seconds to find another nearby race, and race it back to the other end of the map. Then boom, you can try the first race over again because you are back where you started. Your game play never stops, you never have to watch a loading screen. That's a win all around...
I mean, there are races, stunt runs, etc. littered all over the place in Burnout Paradise. Who cares if you fail a race and can't restart, there are always about a dozen other races to choose from once you finish/fail the race you are on. Plus, there's all the other things to do in this game. Which is more then just racing. And you have the online aspect of it, with all the challenges that come with it.

Just seems like a completely absurd reason to not play a great game. That's like saying you hate Metal Gear Solid games because you dislike headbands, or you hate LittleBigPlanet because you're allergic to burlap. Or you hate Left4Dead because writing on walls is tacky... etc.

Oh well, i guess there will always be people that scrub a damn near perfect game for one stupid, meaningless reason... Their loss...

I actually hope they don't add this feature. It'll keep all the impatient, nitpicky kids out of the game.

"I'm amazed that this feature is such a big deal to people, because it's such an insignificant thing. All you have to do is race to one side of the map, then take 2 seconds to find another nearby race, and race it back to the other end of the map. Then boom, you can try the first race over again because you are back where you started. Your game play never stops, you never have to watch a loading screen. That's a win all around...
I mean, there are races, stunt runs, etc. littered all over the place in Burnout Paradise. Who cares if you fail a race and can't restart, there are always about a dozen other races to choose from once you finish/fail the race you are on. Plus, there's all the other things to do in this game. Which is more then just racing. And you have the online aspect of it, with all the challenges that come with it.

Just seems like a completely absurd reason to not play a great game. That's like saying you hate Metal Gear Solid games because you dislike headbands, or you hate LittleBigPlanet because you're allergic to burlap. Or you hate Left4Dead because writing on walls is tacky... etc.

Oh well, i guess there will always be people that scrub a damn near perfect game for one stupid, meaningless reason... Their loss...

I actually hope they don't add this feature. It'll keep all the impatient, nitpicky kids out of the game."

Could have sworn it was confirmed to be released when The Ultimate Box is released. 40+ hours played on the PS3 and not having a retry never bothered me (ok, fine, maybe a couple times when I only had a couple of Road Rages left and I had to back track all over to find it again)

You're right, I hate convenient features in games as well"

I personally only thought that this would be good was when i needed like two more wins for my elite and they were both burning routes and it became annoying to drive back and fourth between start and finish and it became boring but apart from that I can't find any use for it