As a child playing this, I got to be decent at the arcade version (biggest hint is to not use nitros, unless doing so would directly result in winning, because otherwise the computer starts speeding up because of them.), and would happily play for an hour on only a few tokens.
And, yeah, it was fun that steering was, "...and now go spin as fast as possible, and grab onto the steering wheel to stop when the truck has turned the correct direction."
It wasn't really accurate, but I liked Super Mario Kart (SNES) and Stunts (PC) for driving things, and a certain amount of unreality was part of what made them fun.
But this post was about the console versions of it, none of which I was able to get into, probably because of it not being like the arcade.
All the same, it's a bit of a white whale for Lynx, and I'd jump at the chance to own it for any moderately-reasonable price. Even though, obviously, I'd want to own four copies for the one random time when I had enough interested people together in the right place to play the game.