The main proposition was to "Race your way to glory with Shell V-Power Diesel and experience more power for longer in a grueling endurance race behind the wheel of the Le Mans-winning Audi R10."
The game needed to be instantly engaging for the casual viewer — resulting in a positive experience with minimal effort — while also accommodating and rewarding the attention of the more serious gamer.
It features a leader board to encourage competition between users, a challenge-a-friend mechanic and the ability for users to create mini leagues.
The game requires users to race around multiple laps of one track loosely based upon Le Mans with a mixture of wooded and road sections, a grandstand start and finish, perimeter hoardings and billboards, and periphery objects such as tyre barriers.
Users begin the race in the pits after a short animated intro sequence featuring the V-Power Diesel fuel filling the R10. As you progress, the game changes from day to night and back to day, conveying the fact that the race is 24 hours.
During the race, the user can press the 'C' key to switch camera angle from the standard over-the-shoulder perspective and toggle between a more dramatic ‘cockpit view’.
The longer you can stay in the race, the more points you score, with bonus points for how fast you reach the checkpoints and how many V-Power icons you collect.
The car and track, grandstands tye barriers, signage and scenery were modeled and rendered in 3D Max, and the game was programmed in lingo.