Points are awarded based on your result mixed with the selected difficulty, and they unlock circuits. Each race can be run across three difficulty levels: Beginner, Advanced and Expert. Notable, then, that you must unlock the tracks. Yet, make no mistake – for us, unlocking and experiencing every route was tantalising, and one of the incentives to play through the main ‘Arcade’ mode. Not every venue is a home run, however, as we found Tokyo for example, too high-speed and spread the field out.

There’s also great variety here, such as the steeply banked Indiana Oval, where timing a slipstream – which gives you a noticeable speed boost like a Red Bull Racing drag-reduction system once close behind a fellow competitor – is key to a strong result. Reminiscent of a road trip through the rolling hills, we could almost smell the bara brith. Take the rolling green hills of Wales, for example, adorning the surrounding environment of the Snowdonia track. Paris features a night-time Eifel Tower, New York a giant Statue of Liberty recreation, each distinctively attuned to an area of the world.

The quantity of courses isn’t the main draw either, but the design of them.

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