The Best F1 Wheels for Sim Racing: Buyer’s Guide
Featured image: V-PF1 Pro by VPG Building your sim racing cockpit from scratch means designing it around the driving style you wish to adopt. And in case you’re an F1…
How To Defend In Sim Racing
Defending your racing position is a critical skill to learn to win races and championships. Making a poorly thought-out defensive move can be a high-risk thing to do, unfortunately, in…
Monitor Stands and Mounts for Sim Racing – Buyer’s Guide
Featured image: Trak Racer Large Freestanding Monitor Stand Once you’ve chosen a good set of monitors for your sim racing rig, how are you going to mount them? If you…
Guide to the New iRacing UI for Web UI users
iRacing announced that as of this month (expected in March 2023 for the Season 2 build) that the old website version of iRacing’s UI will be sunsetted leaving us only…
Fanatec CSL DD vs the Moza R9 DD Wheelbase Comparison
Moza’s R9 and Fanatec’s CSL DD are (in our view) both excellent, low-budget direct-drive wheels. Just some two years ago the idea of a direct drive wheelbase for less than…
How to Overtake, and How not to.
Whenever we attend a driver’s briefing in real life, we’re always reminded that Motorsport is a non-contact sport. Save a few categories, this rule is very much accepted by all…
How to Drive the Best Racing Line
Featured image: The Corkscrew at Laguna Seca “The Racing Line” is a fundamental theory of track driving that is crucial for speed. It’s not enough to simply learn the line;…
Using Brake Bias in the Sim for Faster Laptimes
Featured Image: Radical SR3 xx cockpit with brake bias adjuster (bottom right) A typical scenario in sim racing is having a car with similar specs to your opponent, but you’re…
iRacing Graphics Settings: Everything you need to know for a better FPS
So many sim racers spend ages getting their rig setup just right, only to completely neglect the look, and frame rate (FPS) performance of the graphics in-game. This is understandable…
rFactor2 setup: Read Our Beginner’s Guide and get Started Quickly
Featured image: Studio 397 If you haven’t heard of rFactor2 but you are interested in giving this racing simulator a try, you’re in the right place. Born from professional F1…
Common Simucube Problems (and their fixes)
It’s very rare for a Simucube 2 Pro, Sport, or Ultimate to go wrong. In the rare event that something does go awry, the developers themselves are very active on…
The First Racing Simulator Ever Built
Featured image: Lotus Racing Simulators Manual When we think about early sim racing, we think about the history of manufacturers like Granite Devices or Fanatec, and possibly earlier software titles…