A strange little side quest
One reason racing keeps producing good game ideas around Wheel Storm: Stiff Mountains is that its history is full of strange turns. 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: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. That long chain of experiments is part of why racing still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.