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Driving & Racing Games · 11

Parking games prove that speed is optional; moving a vehicle three meters without touching a cone can generate more tension than a full lap at 300 km/h. The category's past supplies the companion fact: The 24 Hours of Le Mans began in 1923, which is why endurance racing is as much about surviving the night as setting a fast lap. The safest place for experimental aerodynamics remains a browser tab.

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Rear-view mirrors were not standard on the earliest cars. Ray Harroun famously used one on his Marmon Wasp at the 1911 Indianapolis 500 instead of carrying a riding mechanic to watch behind. The category has another odd corner too: Drifting became a formal motorsport culture in Japan long after drivers had already discovered that sliding a car could be useful on loose surfaces. Competition drifting eventually turned controlled oversteer into the whole point.