It took just one night out, followed by a year of hard work, for one family’s business venture to get revved up and ready to go. Now, the Bedoya family’s new racing simulator center in Kennewick has taken off from the starting line. Co-owner Alex Bedoya said he hadn’t heard of simulator racing before going to a sim racing facility in Idaho last year. But something sparked, and he began asking the owner questions. The owner had launched it as a side business and it was doing well. “I turned to my son, to Kenton, and I said, ‘Hey, we don’t have anything like this in the Tri-Cities. Let’s talk about maybe opening one,’” Alex Bedoya recalled. Talks quickly turned to reality, and on June 6, and the family opened Revzone at 10379 W. Clearwater Ave., Suite 120, in Kennewick. Four family members went in on the venture: Alex Bedoya and his wife Lisa, their son Kenton, and his wife Mackenzie. Simulator racing requires several pieces of equipment. Revzone has seven “rigs” to race on – a setup with a seat, pedals, steering wheel, headphones, and a wide, curved monitor screen. One of the rigs is kid-sized, and another one is full-motion. While all provide haptic feedback so drivers can feel vibrations through the seat, pedals and steering wheel, the full-motion simulator is set up so that the chair will move with the turns – or crashes. Racers must sign a waiver, then an employee helps them get set up. Settings can be changed to make the simulations easier or harder depending on the player’s ability. “If you know what you want, you can come in and choose. If you don’t, we also have a list of our recommended first-time racing tracks and cars,” said Mackenzie Bedoya. Players get to