See, throughout your time in the cockpit of an F1 car you’ll constantly need to not just worry about hitting the throttle and nailing the apexes, but by opening up and actioning settings on your multi-function display via a combination of bumper buttons and d-pad inputs, you will find yourself needing to keep track of, and amend, every tiniest detail. I say near on, as whilst this is pretty much a petrolhead’s dream, the sheer depth of mechanical options, car setups, and in-game race management may well just put any non-F1 fan off a little. The handling is on point, the speed is immense, the attention to detail is stupidly high, and near on every single element of the racing side of F1 2019 is on point. Obviously with advancements in technology, budgets, skills, licenses and ideas, that really should be the case, but even here, following up from F1 2017 and F1 2018, 2019 still seems streaks ahead.
In fact, after spending time with every single F1 title since 1996 and the iconic Formula 1 on PS1 (and probably even anything that came before it), I think this may well be the best edition yet.
And that racing is, quite frankly, brilliant.
