SimRacingWorld reproduces a post from the Codemasters forums where the executive produce for RACE steps into a hornet's nest of controversy over whether Formula One 2009 will be more of an arcade racing game or more of a true simulation, offering reassurances to sim fans that it will be more of the latter:

Right, I haven't read every post in this thread, but I get the jist and just to stop you all from panicking too much... GRID and DiRT are aimed at an arcade audience and they do that very well. F1 has different requirements and will get a completely different treatment from our in-house team, including full on sim options, physics, rules and regs etc. We will also have arcade requirements catered for as well. How this will be split we do not know yet, but split it will be.