Quick Release: a Complete Guide to QR Hubs for Sim Racing
Featured image: Cube Controls F-Pro with SQR QR Hub I fit a new wheel to a QR hub on a near weekly basis – that’s not a flex, it’s the…
The Best Sim Racing Button Boxes: Buyer’s Guide – 2025 Edition
Featured image: ReaperWare 30-Elite Button Box Even though many sim racing wheels have a comprehensive selection of buttons and rotary encoders featured as part of their design, I like to…
How to Avoid Locking your Brakes with this Technique in the Sim
Getting your braking right in the simulator is a huge win for lap times. With too much brake pressure, you lock and go straight on. Too little and you lose…
FOV: How to Setup and Calculate Your Field of View Settings in iRacing and Assetto Corsa
Sorting out your FOV (Field of View) settings in iRacing (or Assetto Corsa and Assetto Corsa Competizione ) is a thing a lot of drivers tend to ignore when they…
Samsung Odyssey G9 49″ Monitor – My Sim Racer’s Review
Featured image: my Samsung G9 As part of my new rig build, I upgraded my triple monitors to a single 49″ monitor, the Samsung Odyssey G9. I was lucky enough…
How to Replace your Valve Index Cable
About a month ago I had a strange period of unreliability with the HMD of my Valve Index cutting out leaving a black or occasionally grey screen that I was…
What are the Best Sim Racing Dashboards and DDUs
Featured Image: Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Display Unit Dashboards (DDU – Dashboard Display Unit) for sim racing can be dash displays (either pre-made or DIY), button boxes or physical dashboards…
The Best Sim Racing Shifters – Buyer’s Guide
Featured image: SIMAGIC DS-8X sequential / H-pattern sim shifter Today, I’m going to walk you through a handful of higher-end intermediate to advanced sim racing gear shifters – if you’re…
Gaming Speakers: What are the Best Speakers for Sim Racing?
Featured Image: my Logitech Z407 gaming speakers With so many parts and components (read: money) that go into building your first simulator setup, it’s often easy to overlook the sound…
How to Heel and Toe in the Simulator
When we were growing up, we’d watch racing and rally heroes like Ayrton Senna and Walter Röhl using the heel/toe technique to smooth their downshifts when they were braking for…
Flex in the Fanatec DD2 Hub fixed with the Z-Ring
I think the only major difference between the Simucube 2 Pro I’ve been testing and my Fanatec DD2 is the quality and rigidity of the hub you get in the…
Fanatec’s USB Adapter – a quick “everything you need to know” Guide
Featured image: Fanatec USB Adapter (for SQ 1.5 shifter or handbrake) If you’ve been dependent on your Fanatec wheelbase for game controller compatibility between your PC and Fanatec shifters, handbrake…