I’ll concede that I tried out the starting assistance as I was a little premature in my starts, often incurring a 10-second penalty. Personally, I couldn’t handle traction control – I drive a BMW and couldn’t live without it, but for rally driving, that’s the appeal – the unpredictableness of it all. In the tutorials, it’s almost like a fitness test to assess your ability and aptly support any requirements you may have starting assistance, traction control and braking are the immediate benefits on offer.

Kylotonn Entertainment and Nacon have thought of everything, and it’s not just the cars that can be fine-tuned, but the gameplay. WRC 9 ups it a little more and provides that marvellous autonomy of running your own rally team, and not just a simple case of jumping in the car and going all Ken Block on wildlife: this is serious. It also gave the illusion that you ‘got’ this time management malarky. While it was a little daunting at first having to pick out a crew that featured a meteorologist of all things, then plan your daily schedule, it was accessible enough once you got the hang of it. Let’s jump straight to business: the core feature of last years game was the career mode. Fortunately, there’ll be no glazers being called out any time soon, but based on this experience, I should be putting in for my Junior WRC licence as this feels real.

Wrc 9 split screen