Sorry to take this back once again to the Mario Kart comparison:

This may sound harsh, but a racing game where a record lap can be summed up by the inputs necessary?! That's just pathetic, and proves just how little of a real racing game MK actually is... Good luck with trying to describe a lap for even the most minimalistic of all wipEout games, the original one, by inputs. Pitch control alone is enough to lift it worlds above games like MK and F-Zero. (and I don't mean to sound like an MK- or F-Zero-hater, because I'm not. I like both games, especially F-Zero GX, but on a competitive level they don't even require half as much skill - and I'm talking about piloting skill, as in real-world racing line terms - as the wipEout series) <- long sentence, sorry