In case you don't know, F1 is run on complex road courses, with the rare long straight connected by turns so tight you can barely get around them on foot. If you still wind up crashing every time you touch the gas, the game offers an acceleration and braking assist to help keep you on the road. The graphics are excellent, accurate, crisp and lovingly detailed, right down to the camera flashes popping in the stands. Try a run with the rain setting on. Spray from the tires and sodden roads add to the difficulty - and the beauty.
Control is also solid.
It's very precise, and is downgraded only because it may be too sharp for the casual fan. But if you're going to run the season, saving your progress and creating an actual full racing year, you will cherish that precision. It's one of the things that makes the game so incredibly realistic. Speaking as a lifelong Grand Prix fan, this is without a doubt the best platform F1 game around, making full use of the Dreamcast's muscle to re-create with eerie accuracy the physics and feel of a Formula One race. If you're a race fan, you need this game.