I just picked up the game. It took me going to 16 different shops and begging the guy to sell it to me a day early, but I finally have it :)

Dude!! A whole 2 days before me man! Hey can you tell me if you can control the accelerate and braking with the right analogue stick? Also how are you liking it?

It's freaking awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By far the best F1 game I've played. I'm tipping it won't be leaving the 360 disc tray for quite some time.

There must be a few out there who managed to get it early too, cause there's already some quick lap-times on the leaderboards although I got up to 44th world-wide on my first run at Spa.

You'll be happy to know you can use the right analogue stick for accelerating and braking. I use the same style.

You've just sent my hype meter threw the roof!! Today and tomorrow going to be some slows days for me, especially now I've seen what a normal fan thinks of it. Also great to hear they've kept the analogue controls in there. Have you started a career yet?

Yeah I'm driving for Lotus. It's very realistic. I have completed one race weekend so I haven't seen all the little details yet but you'll be happy to know it feels like you're driving an F1 car instead of just a car painted like an F1 car.

Go into a corner slightly off-line and you'll suddenly be facing the wrong way. I played a 15 lap race and had a slight loss of concentration on the secong last lap and next thing I knew I spun out and was facing the wrong way.

The A.I is the best I've seen in an F1 game too. During quali I was on a quick lap and the slower cars made sure to pull out of my way in a realistic manner. I also noticed if you put enough pressure on the guy in front of you during a race he will make small mistakes.

I'm just about to have dinner and then I want to try out a race in the wet.

can you choose how many laps in a race for the season or individually,or do they have set amounts

I don't think I'm going to be around here much for a while. This game is consuming my life.

Oh and if anyone in this thread is picking this game up on the 360 and wants a race add me: wick1978

It's good to hear your still enjoying it, I won't be buying the xbox360 version I'm getting the ps3 version, but I'll still post my best times on the tracks and put what car I was driving aswell. 18 more hours to go for me and I'll be racing away.

Now that it's the weekend I'll be doing quite a few laps so I'll put some of my best times up in a few days.

Loving the game!!! Didn't come off it for around 3 hours, started a 7 season career with lotus on hard difficulty ( I doubt I'll be staying with them after the first season over though along a a bigger team comes with a contract) and I finished my first full race weekend at Bahrain. It took me a while Before a managed to get a cleAn lap in and then I concentrated on just improving slightly every run-out until I was putting in competitive lap times (for the lotus anyways). Managed to get 10th grid slot but I think I could of done better except I kept hitting traffic, the race didn't go quite as well and I finished 12th position but the team was thrilled with that result. I kept spinning the corners in the final 4 laps I could swear it was the tyres wearing out an losing grip! I'm looking forward for the Australian gp now I've done 1 practice session and it was in the rain, absolutely incredible!! The difference it's makes if unbelievable! And it looks great aswell.