Tried XInput Plus?

Sounds like a deadzone issue (select gamepad, "oh you're still holding right? guess you want back to keyboard then). Which as BuckoA51 says is best solved with XInput Plus.

I have finally downloaded XInput Plus. This seems like a nice program for directinput games, but as of now I'm having the very same issue with Moto Racer 1; not being able to select joystick/joypad in the options menu. I have used the game.exe in the Moto Racer 1 folder as Target Program, enabled directinput output and even disabled the output for both left- and right trigger (as this causes issues in some old directinput games). I even disabled the analogue sticks of the Xbox gamepad to see if this was causing issues, but still I was not able to choose anything but Keyboard in the options menu of Moto Racer 1.

I may solve this by myself given enough time (if it is possible to solve this with XInput Plus).

Seems like I still don't get the "ding" audio message as I start Moto Racer 1. I get that very sound when starting Moto Racer 2 with the XInput Plus configuration applied to that game.

Without getting the audio message, the game is not communicating with XInput Plus.

Oh, it uses winmm. I use UJR to remap / fix deadzone issues on games that use winmm. Be warned that it's not exactly user friendly.

Wow; this was insanely difficult to configure! I have now both vJoy and UJR installed, and I have tried for over half an hour to bind the right keys in MR1 using the QuickBind and QuickBind Select tools in UJR. I have honestly never heard of the winmm input api before; I thought that directinput was the only input plugin before xinput from Windows 95 av onward.

Well, I can finally choose between Keyboard, Joystick and Joypad in the options menu in Moto Racer 1, but using the highly advanced UJR tool I still can't bind the keys. Even after reading the instruction manual aka readme file in the UJR folder.