Gentlemen, start your engines!
Those of you that are fans of car racing will probably recognize this post's title as the famous phrase that gives the official start to the Indianapolis 500. If it happens that you are a fan of both car racing and free software, you may well be interested in TORCS (The Open Racing Cars Simulator).
TORCS is a free software racing car game that uses OpenGL libraries for 3D rendering. It comes in Linux and Windows versions. You can compile it from source of course, but you also can have it in binary precompiled format. Some distributions also have it pre-packaged. My Debian testing, for example, has it, but it has been purged of the files that are non-free; your mileage may vary (well, what else can I say talking about cars? I don't spend much time playing with my PC, but I confess that since I discovered torcs I have wasted some!
The aim of the game is to have robots racing one against the other, or to have you at the steering wheel racing against them—and, believe me, while some of them are quite "naive", there are others that are really hard to fight against.
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