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You know when you’re setting up a new console game and it asks for a rough skill level to decide whether you need a full suggested racing line, all of the traction control and assisted braking so that you don’t punt yourself into a virtual wall at every opportunity? Well, now is the time for us all to admit that we overestimate our abilities every time, and then have to embarrassingly re-engage some of the assists after just a couple of corners. We see you.

There’ll be none of that here though, not least because the barriers at the Gotlandring are distinctly real and very close to the edge of the track, particularly on this trickier

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