The Great Debate: Are Racing Assists Holding You Back? A Sim Racer’s Journey from Comfort Blanket to Raw Pace Let’s get one thing straight. You’ve seen the videos. The esports pros and YouTube creators all banging the same drum: “Turn off your assists! You’re losing crucial lap time!” I saw them too. And for years, … Read more
Powering the Pace: A Look Inside the New P1R Racing Command Centre Here at P1R Racing, the pursuit of immersion and lap time is relentless. Whether we’re battling for position in iRacing or hitting the perfect apex in EA’s F1 franchise, every millisecond and every pixel counts. In sim racing, your hardware can be just … Read more
Build Your Own Stream & Gaming Button Box (The Easy & Affordable Way!) Tired of fumbling with keyboard shortcuts mid-stream or needing more inputs for your favourite sim game? I was too! That’s why I decided to build my own custom button box. It’s surprisingly simple, budget-friendly, and you can tailor it perfectly to your … Read more
The Final Upgrade: A New PC for Max Graphics & Performance My upgrade journey has brought me pretty much to today. But I still felt the assists were holding me back, and gaming on console was becoming frustrating. My current PC, with its Ryzen 3 3200G, 16GB of RAM, and a 1650 graphics card, just … Read more
Down the Rabbit Hole: My Sim Racing Upgrade Journey While I loved my Logitech G920, I was still deep in the world of assists. This became my biggest roadblock in the search for faster lap times. And, like many before me, I tried to spend my way out of bad habits. This became painfully clear … Read more
The Gift That Started It All: From Controller to Force Feedback For years, I talked about getting into sim racing. I would always tell my wife and family that I wanted to do it, but the cost and space requirements felt like huge barriers. I knew that once I did it properly, I’d be all … Read more
My First Rigs: A Comedy of Errors My journey into sim racing started with the legendary Thrustmaster 458 wheel. At the time, I loved it. I’d sit for hours modifying cars on Need for Speed, my child soothing in his bouncer nearby. But sitting on the floor with a wheel on my lap, halfway across … Read more