If you ever want to write the history of online sim racing, Alison Hine would feature in Chapter One. That’s because, back in the mid-’90s, while racing via modem in Papyrus’ IndyCar sims, she was offered a position on the beta team for Grand Prix Legends and, alongside engineer Randy Cassidy and her brother Nate Hine, tasked with enabling GPL users to race for the first time over the internet. The result was the dawn of online sim racing (and the legendary VROC racing club—a “matchmaking site” which allowed users to host a race in GPL which would be posted on the VROC app and website).