Otherwise you spend a lot of time bouncing off wall's and other cars.having said that even with help you better have a few hours to invest in learning the ropes of this game, it's worth it. Just about everything is adjustable to some degree, including weather,competetitors,shifting help brake and on and on. Graphics are not that great but adequate. Pit crew and spotters also use voice,but sometimes are hard to hear. Still, finding a setup for each of the tracks that suits you will take some time.
Patience here is truly a virtue.
Much of the control is affected by how well your car is set up, so work on setups and create special files for both racing and qualifying. Superb, although depending on the capabilities of your machine, you might have some choppiness and the occasional freeze frame. There is an option to turn off a multitude of graphics elements, or to let the computer decide to turn off these elements if the frame rate gets too low and turn them back on when it increases to a suitable speed. The loss of small details like billboard advertisements and haulers parked behind pit road might bother some, but the increased frame rate means a more enjoyable race. Another option would be to install an accelerator program, such as McAfee's Rocket.