My very brief stint as a race car driver at the F1 Arcade

/ A new company is trying to bring racing simulators to the bar scene. It’s very fun — and very complicated.

By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

The F1 Arcade is a simulator. Just… a simpler one. Photo: David Pierce / The Verge

Confidence was my first mistake. As I plopped down in one of the 83 racing simulators in the new F1 Arcade location in Washington, DC, I told the company’s CEO, Adam Breeden, that I’d raced plenty of times before. I picked Semi-Pro difficulty, even as Breeden told me he

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