Official Formula 1 Racing certainly has all the requisite components for an authentic simulation. Install Opensuse 12.2 Macbook Pro. All 16 circuits, 11 teams, and 22 drivers (save Jacques Villeneuve, who's listed as 'Driver Williams') from the 1998 Formula 1 World Championship season are included, with teams distributed into five categories based on their real-life performances. Win the 2017 World Championship, break every record in the fastest ever F1 cars, and race some of the most iconic F1 cars of the last 30 years. With an even deeper ten year Career, more varied gameplay in the new ‘Championships’ mode, and a host of other new features, both online and offline, F1 2017 is the most complete and thrilling F1.

What are the best racing games? So many elements contribute: the genre's not only about graphical fidelity and hair-raising sound design - though both certainly help - it's also about pulling you into the action as if you’re there in the driver’s seat, eyes strained as the asphalt whips past at 240kph. From honing your timing for a perfect gear shift to kicking out the back-end for a sublime drift, a quality racing game just feels right. This your first race with us? We're your best pit-stop for. Don’t go asking, “How could you forget about Grand Prix Legends!

Where’s Geoff Crammond?!” When versions of those games surface on Steam or GOG, we’ll be the first in line to play them again and inevitably find they haven’t aged as well as we hoped. So for those of you who are just looking to hop in and fire up the engine of a superb racer, whether that’s an intricate sim or an arcade thriller, we've got some breakneck PC racers for you. These are the best racing games: • • • • • • • • • • The most realistic PC racing games Dirt Rally Codemasters’, Dirt 3, and is arguably the best game Codemasters have made in years. With a far more authentic handling model, Dirt Rally does away with many of the arcadey touches that continue to persist in the core series. That also makes it a proper rally game in a way gamers haven't seen in a long while. It's not just that these races happen to be set on dirt tracks with loads and loads of slidey sideways driving, but that you're actually taking part in the kind of endurance racing that rallying is all about. You have to take care of your car through every race stage, which introduces an element of strategy and resource management that's all too rare in sim-racing.

Now that it’s been out a while, Dirt Rally has also accrued a dedicated and meticulous modding community that regularly put out tweaks and fixes that massively improve the core game, especially for rally aficionados. Everything from gorgeously rendered car skins to the most subtle of weather and lighting changes are available to elevate the core game just that little bit higher. Shift 2 Shift 2 might be the best compromise between realism and accessibility of any game on this list.

It’s not just the ways the car handle - menacing, but capable - but the way it consistently thinks about what players need to perform at a high level. Rather than lock your view gazing out over the hood, or ask you to spring for TrackIR to let you turn your head, Shift 2 has a dynamic view that subtly changes based on context. Coming up on a gentle right-hand corner, your view shifts a bit as your driver avatar looks right into the apex. For a sharper corner, your view swings a bit more so you have a sense of what you’re driving into, yet it doesn’t feel disorienting at all.