If, right now, you ask a long-time F1 fan what keeps them tuning in to watch cars go round and round while a paddock full of very smart engineers and some of the most dodgy rich people the world has to offer look on, they’ll all probably give different answers.
Some’ll say it’s the drama, some’ll say it’s impressive tech being pushed to the limit, some’ll say they like seeing Charles Leclerc’s pretty face. All of these reasons are equally valid, but, following an opening race to the 2024 season that certainly tested my resolve to tune in again this week - I don’t think many of the answers you got would directly speak to what should be the simple reason any of us watch sports. Above all else, it’s supposed to be fun.
New Star GP, the latest release from the studio behind Retro Bowl and New Star Manager, is exactly that. It’s straight-up fun. Coming out of a recent preview of the game, I honestly wasn’t sure whether it would be, given that it was coming out of early access stocked with a mixture of arcadey and sim-style elements that seemed like they might lead it to struggle to properly deliver enough of either vision.