A strange little side quest
Build Lego Cars may feel immediate, but the ideas around racing have been evolving for a very long time. Formula 1 introduced pit-lane speed limits during the 1994 season as safety concerns grew around increasingly fast cars and busier pit lanes. The surprising part is how quickly the next milestone followed. Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. That long chain of experiments is part of why racing still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
