The best racing games like F-Zero are WipEout Omega Collection, Redout 2 and Fast RMX. Below are 8, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to racing costs you.
Filtering to racing means you want the vehicle to be the subject. It is the right filter when what you liked was speed, or handling, or a road worth driving.
What you get: A short session that is complete in itself. A race is over in five minutes and you can always take the corner better.
What made F-Zero worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the racing part of that answer, and only the racing part.
The other pillar of anti-gravity racing, and the closest in speed and feel.
The most honest modern F-Zero successor, and faster than the originals.
Made for Switch by Shin'en specifically to fill the F-Zero gap.
A love letter to the original WipEout, and free to try.
Nintendo's own battle-royale take on the SNES original.
Late-90s anti-gravity racing where you can drive on the ceiling.
For the same obsession with one perfect lap and no opponents to blame.
N64 contemporary, bike racing at the same ludicrous speed.
Everything outside the vehicle. Racing games rarely have a story, and the ones that try usually should not have.
Specifically, these are strong answers for F-Zero that are not racing games, so they are not on this page:
The full list is on games like F-Zero — 9 picks, no genre filter.
WipEout Omega Collection. The other pillar of anti-gravity racing, and the closest in speed and feel.
No. F-Zero released on the Super Nintendo, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
Simulation models tyre temperature, fuel and weight transfer and punishes you for ignoring them. Arcade gives you grip, boost and a rewind, and is about flow. Buying the wrong one is where most disappointment comes from.
For the simulation picks it changes the game completely. For anything arcade it makes almost no difference.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full F-Zero list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is racing — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the racing guide for where to start in the genre generally.