Formula TOP

Other reviews have already covered it -- Formula TOP is incredibly well made and a joy to play! The core handling is flowy, the AI is dynamic, and the career is easy to get lost in. Easily my favorite top down racer.

Very fun game, the wheel to wheel actions is amazing and fun, probably the most fun ai ive ever played against

this game is super fun for F1 fans,me personally i love playing the quick races 10/10 game i'd say it's better than the new F1 games by EA

Review changed to positive because the Devs fixed the issue for which I am grateful.
Original negative review left for historical context:
Another racing game that won't allow you to use the right stick for accel and brake. Unfortunately this is all too common and for the most part I don't even bother looking at racing games anymore but I though I'd give this a shot on the sale and am left asking for a refund.
Many racing games just won't allow you to reassign the right stick at all, but some of them do what this game does - allow you to assign it, but it doesn't distinguish between up and down on the stick. So whilst you can re-assign both brake and acceleration to the right stick, you are essentially pressing the brake and accel at the same time. Unfortunately this is common.
So I took the brake off the stick and found out that the game treats the up and down extremities as maximum acceleration and the middle as no acceleration.
Steam controller support does not allow you to assign stick axis to trigger inputs, never has and presumably never will. This would open up a world of games for me.
I tried the game with the digital inputs but the game really does need analog controls all around. If this was an arcade style game I could do tappity tap with the button but that's not going to fly here.
A pity, I had already planned in my head a mod pack. I was mostly interested because of the modability but if the base game isn't playable then that doesn't matter.
In the past I have tended to not leave reviews on games I refund. I just figure it was like a demo and I can walk away. But this is a serious issue with the genre and we have lost a control scheme to time. Fortunately the Forza Horizon games and Automobilista games let me have my control scheme of choice. The vast majority of other games don't. Even Horizon Chase forgot about it between the first game and the second game.
It would have been nice to add a top down racer to my list.
I will also mention that I have, from time to time posted a question about this in the discussion group of many racing games and I never get any response at all, not from the devs, not from anybody else playing the game. I can't possibly be the only one who has been playing racing games since the PSX when you had to use the right stick if you wanted analog control over how fast you were going. That was standard and even arcady style games like most of the NFS games supported it. Well now I'm just an old man yelling at clouds I guess.

this is a great f1 game, the handling is good and tracks are realistic. my only note is that my game crashes everytime i do a championship race or a career. i can only quick race for it to save.

A very underrated game. The controls feel spot on, weather conditions, damage, pits, fuel mix, tyre changes, strategy. It's all there. Couple it with Steam Workshop and you have a fantastic little F1 racer. I love how the teams chatter between sessions, like someone is disappointed, while others are doing better than they thought. Then the team offers start rolling in for next season if you punch well above your weight.

This one can easily pass you by but is actually an extremely competent top-down racer. The AI is extremely good and the career mode adds an interesting layer around relationships with other racers, your own team and development of your car across multiple seasons, in which you might switch teams several times as you chase for p1. Even with relatively few tracks, it's still great fun to master the tracks and see your skills improve season after season. Currently my favorite top-down racer, in fact.