[Perfectlap]

I will publicly admit to owning this game and even worse going out to buy the steering wheel for it! Yes that's $200 that could have gone in the car or better yet my E-trade account.

Believe it or not I spend more time watching the on board footage in the license center. I have watched this for an hour at a time. They show you the telemetry on braking points and the degree of steering input. I'm thinking of emailing them to find out how they incorporated all that telemetry into the game. Must be fascinating.
The wheel has real life 900 degrees of rotation so I have to say its not all like playing these cheesy arcade games. You really have to use hand over hand steering to get around slow speed corners. And the weight behind the force feedback is something else, it knocked the computer table I had it on apart.

For the record I now own three PS2 titles
GT3, F1-2001, GT4.
I really hate most sports games and these shoot em up games. Makes my hands hurt.

I hear X Box is coming out with Forza something or other which uses a better physics model. There was great article in Popular science where a pro ALMS driver was put against an avid gamer and surprisingly the gamer was slower. Guess its worth checking out.