Now this is pod racing!
Despite our clever Episode I reference in the tag-line, to understand VSR: Void Space Racing you need to forget everything you know about the physics in the Star Wars movies; the only sci-fi that can help you here is The Expanse. While we're not saying you need a Newtonian Physics degree to pilot these ships, having one wouldn’t hurt either.
Space. The Final Frontier. It's big - really big - and filled with both dangers and wonders, but mostly vast chunks of emptiness. One of the most notable absences - besides atmosphere - is friction. If you kick a football on Earth it will go as far as the strength of your kick minus the friction from the atmosphere and the pull of gravity allows it before coming to a full stop. Kick that same ball with the same strength in space and it will just keep going in the same direction, at the same constant speed until it either hits something or gets pulled by a gravity field from something bigger. With that in mind, how could space racing even be possible?
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