William, Happy birthday!! Mine is on monday the 4th!!
Need for speed porsche is great. I higly recommend the logitech or microsoft wheels. they make a huge difference.
Runt he the factory driver mode, its fun.
When you do evolution. and have enough cash, buy used cars, fix them and sell them to make more money. It will help you to be able to upgrade the cars.
I was a member of an NFS Racing team called the repomen. The site is partially still up.
http://repoyard.web.com at least I think its still there I hope.
Alon