Reminds me of the racing games for the ZX Spectrum. They exploited the rubber keyboard and recommended the use of a large roll of Sellotape pressed on to the computer as a steering wheel.
https://spectrumgamesuk.com/index.php?game=Formula-One
Sadly the major racing game that preceeded it, Psion's Chequered Flag, didn't thus support the key scheme that the reel of tape method produced; a shame, since it was by far a better game otherwise.
edit: also, of course, in early 1984 the spectrum+ became the default 'sinclair spectrum' and didn't really work with the plastic wheel / reel of sellotape method, so it was a fairly short lived method all told, even though it lived on as an option in a few games for a couple of years longer.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/zxsr.php?id=5078
I believe this one had little nubs under the board, and thus worked 'somewhat' on the Spectrum+ too. Notably the review calls out that at least one of the reviewers couldn't get it to work quite right on the + keyboard.
You're right about Chequered Flag too. Spent too much time on that game.
I did own the mastertronic rebadge of it a couple of years later, and it was dire, really dire.
Oh, and a fun fact, 'Mastertronic' still exists, of a sort... Flight Simulator and Train Simulator vendor 'Just Flight'/'Just Trains' purchased the Mastertronic brand about 20-some years ago, and purchases from them still show up as Mastertronic in financial records.