A strange little side quest
Here is a rabbit hole for the next loading screen in BMG Car Destruction: Atari's Gran Trak 10 from 1974 is recognized as the first arcade racing video game, decades before modern 3D racers. And then there is this: In 1958, Tennis for Two used an analog computer and an oscilloscope to turn simple physics into a playable tennis-like demonstration. That long chain of experiments is part of why racing still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.