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WATCH: The Ultimate Sim Racing Beginners’ Guide – Part 3 – Racing without assists

In Traxion’s latest video guide, here’s how to drive without the likes of traction control and ABS.

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It’s time for part 3 of our Ultimate Sim Racing Beginners’ Guide, and this is a big one.

When you first start out, it is very normal to be relying on driving assists (or driver aids) to help keep you on the road.

But to become a better sim racer in the long run, it’s crucial to take off the virtual stabilizers and understand how a car feels without these driver aids.

In this part, we explain what each of these common driving assists actually do, helping you understand how they work, why they are useful, why we should experiment with them turned off, and crucially, how you might be able to go faster without them!

Watch the video now on YouTube and embedded above.

While you’re there, catch up on Episode 2, covering the racing line, and Episode 1 covering the basics of car control.

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