The F1 series has always been an unforgiving little tart.

Maybe that’s a good thing. It’s not a sport that rewards accidents; one little touch and your head could pop right off while launching your car spinning into the crowd, and those things aren’t made of pillows and jelly, you know.

So the game itself, even on the simplest of modes, is no easy-beat. Whack it up to full difficulty and you’ve got no hope unless each corner is taken to perfection with maximum speed used at each point.

That’s Formula One for you, though, so if you didn’t want to be tested, why don’t you go and play Lego Tellytubbies Play Hour Happy Funtime for the Unborn.

The Young Drivers Test is a pretty good inclusion if you’re new to the series. It takes you through the finer points of how to become an utterly mint driver, with a suitably patronising instructor to spell everything out like you’ve never seen the wheel before.

That’s the one thing driving games struggle with. Mr Teacher is either a horribly stilted robot of politeness or a Hawaiian shirt-decorated ‘dude’ shovelling decade-old phrases. Sort it out, people.

In-game, there’s not much to separate it from 2011, a little more graphical polish perhaps, but the revamped player hub is a big improvement, and added ‘rivalry’ feature peps up the races if you need to add a pinch more desire to the circuit, just in case ramming drivers into the gravel at 240mph isn’t as interesting as you’d thought.