Better Than Your Xbox ; If You Think You've Got What It Takes to Beat Lewis Hamilton, Get Off the Sofa and Head Over to the F1- Racing Simulation Centre in If You Think You've Got What It Takes to Beat Lewis Hamilton, Get Off the Sofa and Head Over to the F1-Racing Simulation Centre in Lyon...

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From the outside, the I-Way building - home to the world's most advanced motor-racing simulators - looks like an impenetrable, featureless box. Enter the reception, though, and the corners and hard lines melt away, and seemingly from nowhere a translucent blue staircase slices through the high cylindrical room. But it's not until you've ascended the stairs and entered the simulation areas that you get any notion of the incredible technology that lies within.

If the stylised foyer resembles something straight out of a video game, in reality I-Way - based in Lyon, France - strains to distance itself from the trivialities of gaming. What's on offer here is super-realistic racing simulation, an immersive experience in an architecturally breathtaking environment..

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Better Than Your Xbox ; If You Think You've Got What It Takes to Beat Lewis Hamilton, Get Off the Sofa and Head Over to the F1- Racing Simulation Centre in If You Think You've Got What It Takes to Beat Lewis Hamilton, Get Off the Sofa and Head Over to the F1-Racing Simulation Centre in Lyon...

There are three racing areas to try. A bank of six Citroen C2 S1600 cars provides a rally-driving simu...

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