The cockpit and external appearance of a racing car are accurately simulated.
A spherical mirror display is attached to the underside of the hood of the simulator.
When the hood is raised, a video presentation is projected onto a display screen
via first and second mirrors and the image on the display screen is reflected off
of the spherical mirror to the player "driving" the simulated racing car. In the
preferred embodiment, the spherical mirror is a thin acrylic sheet molded to the
desired curvature. A mirror surface is formed on the concave surface of the molded
sheet and a sheet of foam plastic is scored on one side so that the foam plastic
sheet conforms to the reverse concave side of the molded acrylic sheet. The foam
sheet is molded to the thin acrylic sheet mirror to rigidly support the acrylic
sheet mirror in the desired curvature.