It's a very fast racer. Sensitive controls, touching the wall or anything can make you go all over the place. There is a button dedicated to reorienting yourself forwards, but that keeps you in place for a bit.
Still, it's pretty fun for what it is. It suffers from slowdowns unfortunately. I tried overclocking the emulated cpu, but then after the final race in a league the game would bug out so you are pretty much stuck with performance dips. It's not too bad, but it makes a difficult to control game even harder.
Sometimes luck plays a big role in winning, you never know when a CPU decides to throw a "blue shell" your way and ruin the race.
Overall, I enjoyed it.

Ultimately let down by a lack of content (even for 1999, 10 tracks and a couple difficulty levels feels slim) and some chaotically unfair moments during races, which is a shame, because it’s got some really neat ideas - it’s remembered for having cars that can flip over and still keep racing as well as driving on walls and ceilings, but what impressed me most were the destructible track elements that leave debris everywhere, kind of like a precursor to Split/Second. It’s really neat, but it’s a 40 minute experience at best.

A really impressive title for the PS1 with its physics and destructible environments, but not necessarily a very good one. The mechanic of being able to drive on walls and ceilings while really cool to see is barely utilized with only like 2 noteworthy examples I can think of, the jump between Easy and Hard difficulty is a bit much and throwing a Normal in the middle would have been appreciated, and it's ridiculously easy to spin out and get turned around with the slightest impact or brake, which along with all the items flying around everywhere I'm sure makes this a great chaotic multiplayer experience but just makes Hard races really frustrating. Additionally, I saw pretty much everything there was to offer singleplayer-wise in under an hour, with there only being 10 tracks all of which are very short. While I can absolutely see the value in this game, I can't really recommend it to anyone who didn't grow up with it as anything more than a quick novelty.