£7 vs £7000 Racing Simulator. Which Is Faster? 

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If you’re slow with the T-Racer, can you even call yourself a true sim racer?

"Jem Hepworth tests for Silverstone on £2 million F3 simulator at Arden Motorsport" Meanwhile her team mate Jamble yeets an MX5 'round using £7 TRacer-chan xD

We need a streamer racing championship.. All using t racer chans 😂😂😂

Finally, something i can afford

Here's an idea Jimmer. Dirt Rally 2.0 with tracer-chan

Preparing for your next Praga R1 race with the TRacer?

Imagine doing endurance racing on the tRacer...

I can't wait for Jimmy to get a podium in Goldie and have it on yt trending

The T Racer with its steering offset - It is an Indy 500 wheel mate

It would be really cool to see you on the tracer vs a beginner sim racer on the 7k rig

NEW INTRO WOOO

I think if you are already a decent driver the gear matters less, because you know what to do ahead of time. If you are a begginer you would be much faster on a decent rig compared to the bad one, because of the information you need.

3 tenths for £7,000, every F1 team wants to know your location

The T racer is Richard Hammond Simulator, you cant drive in a straight line

We want to se the wheel while you play in the rig though

My first ever wheel was something comparable to this Tracer: no FF whatsoever, 180 degrees rotation. It was some very old Logitech, can't even remember the model - I bought it for 50PLN, which was ~13-14 pounds at the time. I had very similar issues with it as Jimmer, but that old and crappy thing got me into simracing. And I can confirm, that gear isn't everything. When I finally bought something better, which was Logitech Driving Force GT, I wasn't immediately faster, but more consistent and more importantly - more confident behind the wheel. Now I have a G29, and don't really feel the need to buy anything better, mostly because of the $$$ 😁

Ah I see the T-racer wheel is much more reliable than the Praga wheel!

With this sort of extreme being the outlier, it does go to show that it's much more down to the person driving than the set-up itself, something like a G29/27 wouldn't impede our Jimmer at all!

£7 if you just never give up

You can tell you're happier since getting the house, it's awesome to see man ✌️

Jimmy, your success in racing has inspired me, I haven't been on this channel for a long time, but in the time that I have been here you've accomplished the one thing that I strive for

I lovew how it's "yeah three laps on Main Rig is enough" but you just cannot stay away from T Racer chan

Next video idea: Play as Tracer from Overwatch with the T-Racer.

Would love to see the difference when it comes to the Praga rig (Simucube) VS G29, both in a cockpit. That's a comparison for the simracing community!

This is the best message, equipment wont make you faster that one is on you. The consistency is where it will come into its own though, but the benefit is you get to see how much you enjoy it with cheap gear (40$ for my first wheels and pedals) and then can buy fancy stuff the more you play and enjoy

Nailed it with consistency. I went from a G29 and floor stand in an armchair to DD1 and full rig. Certainly, initially, I wasn't any faster (sad face) but quickly became more consistent, which meant fewer spins and errors, which helped overall race time. And with the greater fidelity from a fancy setup I could learn more and ultimately be faster. Worth noting that with a nicer setup it's also a nicer way to spend time... Advice for those with lower spec setups - get your contact points sorted. I bought an H pattern and upgraded it (stiffness and shift knob), mounted the pedals a bit more upright and firmly, added stiffer springs, and braced the floor stand so there was no flex. All this helped make the experience better and more consistent on the G29. In fact @Jimmy, it would be a great series of vids to do a ground-up basic build and do ebay upgrades etc to make the rig a better setup, you could do pedal springs, mounting, H pattern upgrades, handbrake upgrades etc... it would make for good viewing, and I don't think it's been done by any other mainstream YT'er.

When i started simracing i had some super cheap pedals with a single axis for throttle and brakes and used a gravis joystick because the included steering wheel was so horrible that was better XD I still managed to lap the nordschleife eventually in GPL. Man that was so hard.

Jimmy's new sponsorship TRacer a $7 wheel all other sponsors leave.

Great new intro Jimmy!! Love the video, keep up the great work man.

Great vid! I would love to see you do the same experiment, but with a much faster car. I would think that the difference would be much greater since the margin for error is smaller.

You can change the setting on the T-Racer....I've used mine for last 2 FIA seasons...A/S rated.

Nice wheels are more about immersion than speed. There are Esports guys on G29’s.

You're talking at 13:52 about the rigs and how a cheap one does not really make you slower. I believe the question 'Which is faster?' no longer matters very much, anyway. What matters is which rig gives you the closest experience to real life, because software is constantly evolving towards emulating reality and will probably be getting pretty close to doing it perfectly over the next years/decades if that is what developers and the market want. But a cheap wheel with plastic pedals will be a waste on such a simulator. In the early 2000s, I was driving NFS Porsche Unleashed with a Thrustmaster Enzo wheel and it was a great experience. But a similar wheel today, with rFactor 2 or even Assetto Corsa, would not be able to capture all the realism the devs put into the behaviour of the cars.

This comes just after I've spent my entire day not working but rather looking at Simucube and Fanatec videos cause simracing is confusing. Lovely Jimmer!

You feel the difference! :)

Everyone needs their own T-Racer-chan. When I first started out playing Sim Racing games, it was on something like T-Racer-Chan: suction cups on the wheel, the same pedal box etc, and yet I turned up at go-karting event with some friends and was only just pipped for the win yet the only racing, or in fact any driving, experience was that cheap-ass wheel. Oh, and the gear changer paddles had both broken off after a few months of use. I've upgrade through a low-end Ferrari Thrustmaster and these days I have a G29 and frame mount, but it all started with that unbranded wheel and I still adore it. Although never again please :)

Jimmy, most people are saying they miss the shed, you should dub the new office, “THE SHEDROOM” 😁.

You are absolutely spot on. Played withan xbox 360 controller and I could keep pace with people on wheels. Now I have a cheapo wheel and have gotten 5 seconds slower. It feels like relearning everything again. But is so much fun.

I had this tracer xD using nonlinearity can be very helpful on track, also changes in setups in car - decrease maximum steering angle if possible ;)

You could modify the steering wheel to work as a higher degree steering wheel but then make modification in the steering linearity so when you steer only the last 3-4 degrees its actually abruptly steering.

You can change the lock settings in AC. The wheel input rotation should match the on screen wheel.

Intro is awesome and indeed echo boy has showed up I'm glad you loving the house Jim jam.

Somehow an even better intro! Well done!

Now send the cheapo wheel to Jardier and watch him eclipse us all

Proper content mate!

Glad to see T-racer chan back! Was great to see it compete with poche rig and be not that far off (in before Praga bois stop the rig sponsorship after this :D) Btw great desktop with Minty!

what a great example ive got a g290 looking into fan tech stuff that's out my budget thinking it's all about the money when really its all about the practicing :)

Love the job you do Jimbo to keep us entertained

That's the thing about doing races with crappy gear, you HAVE to nail everything or you'll just spin out and lose everything. So I feel your focus is a lot better. I still have one of my best times on Grid 2 where I used the arrow keys instead of a controller just because my controller had broken and I wanted to play a racing game.

Drop the merch link in the description! Excited to see the new stuff rollout.

Would love to see you try match your real praga lap times in the sim! Also would love to see this same video concept but assetto with an xbox controller!

I’d like to see you do your rig versus a Logitech or thrust master or even a fantec.

i miss old sim rig and videos. But still proud of you.

Rock _cromonch_ oh! Probably my favourite part of the new intro

It would be good if you maybe tried this with a few of popular race wheels like the t300 and g920

TRacer is back baby! You LOVE to see it.

gotta love the scream from the Top Gear clip in the intro

I think it's safe to say this wheel has achieved legendary status... Somewhere in the world there's a tracer accountant scratching his head at the recent sales figures whilst a sweatshop workers fingers bleed trying to keep up with the production demand.

I would love to see what your times were like on the rig after using the GLORIOUS T-Racer. Having to be so precise given the amount (or lack thereof) of rotation on the T-Racer, I wonder if that would help on the big rig.

Thanks a lot Jimmer, I found those last words definitely inspiring

The MintX-5 looking pretty nice in the background.

keep up the good work dude!!

Try out some budget wheels, like I have some old thrustmaster without a name, It is still being made, and costs around 70eur in Latvia. The wheel has great pedals for the price and it has auto centering, so at least there is some resistance when turning the wheel

This is probably why I still see so many people still swearing by their PS2-era DF GT wheels.

Really good point there jimmy!! I wonder how much of the difference if you tried to use a keyboard.

After the last race in the Praga, Jimmer needed to remind himself what a *real* crap wheel felt like.

You should try to adjust the wheel gamma to make it non-linear, so the wheel is less twitchy towards the centre

i really wish you´d play like 2 or 3 different sims / games when you do these kind of videos or the original "Cheapest racing wheel" video

Pro shed.. I mean racing driver showing us how it's done 😂🔥 love the new intro Jimmer🙌

I really want to get a wheel, but I don't have the space for one... I've never actually had the chance to try any driving game with a wheel... and I really want that immersion...

£7 rig vs £7000 rig. That’s a 1000x more expensive Jimmy 🤙🏻

Jimmy, you better be sleeping with one eye open after this, because the boys at Fanatec and Simucube will be sending Niels round to break your legs.

Great content. Chris Haye also came to similar conclusions. It would be super interesting though if you had a complete newbie and tried to teach him to be fast on cheap gear vs proper rig. I think that would be a real gap. If you are experienced you are more proactive, know what to expect from a car with given inputs whereas a total newbie would be (that is my guess ofc) completely lost. Proper rig would make it easier to not fight with the car.

Would really be more interesting if you did a comparison on an actual ok entry-level sim wheel, like the logitech g29/920. Love your stuff btw.

The gear that makes you faster is what has you coming back time and again to put your hours in - sometimes even with a smile on your face.

Loving the intro

I have the XR Racing V2 which is basically the same wheel but with more buttons .

Another great upload jimmer 👍

This wheel is proper quality. No doubt. Also, I still can’t believe how good AC looks with the CSP… amazing, still, even after so many years 😆

Shout out to the awesome looking yellow box that the TRacer comes in.

I like how you honestly tried to get the best from the cheap wheel. Could've just thrashed it but and gave it a genuine go. Don't change Jimmer!

This is why you deserve the sponserships you get. You're a lot better than you give yourself credit for given you can run great times regardless of the devices you're using. Also why I enjoy watching your vids cos watching you is helping me to learn how to become a better simracer(I'm still a complete noob). I'm using a Thrustmaster TMX Pro btw and I've found it to be good enough for my skill level(beginner). :)

It's been said many times, the most important mechanical part of any car is the nut that holds the wheel.

I considering buying my first wheel, maybe the op Tracer must be the best option.

Make sure we get that familiar Jimmy reflection on the Wall!

Proves the point, that the gear is of secondary importance, but the driver IS, what makes it count. And yes, I have seen people qualify for IRL money tournaments with GAMEPADS, but a wheel will add a lot more consistency to your laps and the things, that will actually make you go faster, albeit only a little, are good, responsive pedals and decent force feedback. I have EASILY beaten my gamepad times in literally ANY racegame, using the G29 and I only had it for 3 weeks... still not all the settings to perfection... project cars is finally playable, compared to a gamepad (but I am an old and crap scrub)

Jimmy : sets off in the Praga sim, fails to get any gear. Me : wow, that sim is so true to life...

1:08 - "CHEESE."

Jimmy do you reckon we could see your wheel with a different cam setup?

2:10 "Shaddup!" **Sad phone noises**

You should do this same thing but with a wheel that isn't that expensive like the G920 and compare it to a really expensive rig like the one you have and see if there's a big time difference

Love the new content from the house 🏠

1:06 "You frickin' cheesy boi" 😂

In the world of musicians (mostly guitarists) there’s always people who think that better gear = better playing, but that’s never the case. Just like you proved here, better equipment might get you in the zone faster but it’s the people who practice the most that achieve the highest

Can I just say that the new intro is sick!

Cheers Jimmer, devilishly good video. :)

Loving the new intro

I'd love to see first time simracers on both rigs and see how quickly they learn. I believe racing on a proper rig you can feel a lot more and learn a lot faster, then when you go to a cheap rig you can drive mostly from memory.

The all new Table sim content coming NOW The type of content shed dweller can not replicate