Based on the grounds that it played like you were attached to an elastic band when using a steering wheel, the steering was appalling due to this and made it pretty horid to play. Add in all the gimmicky effects and I quickly grew to dislike it.
However, to give my comments some balance, if your into more arcadey style games then I suppose it wasnt complete pap, I just much prefer more realistic games like Forza, F1 2010, GTR, Grand Prix Legends etc etc etc.