After reading through every post in this thread, I still went against my better judgment, downloaded it, waited for Steam to update (luckily I had Steam installed because of Half Life 2, but the update still took a long time) and installed it. The menus and music were quite cool, but when I got into the actual game, I'd have to agree that graphics seemed not that great and the driving wasn't very realistic. However, this IS just a demo. I have a feeling that the graphics will be more finished, and the physics will have some final tweaks. Also, I did notice that the Realism options were greyed out, so maybe the physics were set to an arcade type mode or something. I'm not completely setting aside the idea of purchasing Race07, but the demo doesn't help me in my purchasing decision. I would have to agree that the demo itself is god awful. I've raced in GTR2 with the M3 at Anderstorp a lot and thought that was a much better rendition of the track and physics, and can't see why Race07 can't have those same features. I race NR 2003 the most still, and LFS occasionally. After a couple laps of the Race07 demo, I actually jumped into Live for Speed and had a blast on Kyoto Ring National (I hadn't gone on that track before) and had a blast, with both one of the street cars and one of the formula cars. It was damn fun, but still won't replace NR2003 as my fave racing sim. I hope iRacing will blow away the rest of the competition.