Heres my opinion on assissts in general, and i only use abs at 1 that is all. I believe that with assists off you can go faster and have a better feel for the car and be able to enjoy the game as it was meant to be enjoyed. But i also believe that if you enjoy using assists go on ahead if you feel your faster. All in all who cares if people think your a noob assissts make you slower and if someone judges or wont race with others cause they use them than thats lesss money at the end of the race and less racers for competition.