![]() ![]() Most importantly, you’re going to want a solid way to mount your wheel and pedals in a manner that won’t have them moving around or sliding away from your seating position. There is no point spending thousands of dollars on a high-end wheelbase and super stiff load cell pedals if you’re going to be sitting on a couch with the pedals on the floor, so before you do anything else you need to do somewhat of an ergonomic assessment of your intended play space. The single most important factor in determining what sim racing gear will best suit you will be the environment where you’re playing. Again for more details, check out our sim racing beginner’s guide series. For the best possible experience, of course a full cockpit setup is going to be best, but by the time you reach that stage, you’ll probably already be sim racing on a PC anyway, so we’ll only touch on that briefly here. Now when it comes to consoles, the vast majority of people will be playing using a TV and sitting on a couch, so for the purpose of this video we’ll be focussing more on the types of sim racing hardware which suit this style of gameplay rather than high end full cockpit setups. In fact many professional sim racers play with very basic setups and the force feedback turned all down to a bare minimum to speed up their reaction times. This can seem strange to a lot of people at first because you’d think the quality of the force feedback would be more important, but as long as your brain has some way of interpreting what’s going on with the car and can establish muscle memory, the actual realism of the force feedback you feel makes little difference to lap times or consistency. The more “realistic” a set of pedals feel, as well as the more range of control available, the more you’ll be able to modulate your inputs to make small corrections and this will ultimately lead to faster and more consistent lap times. ![]() Now there are some important exceptions to this, most notably when it comes to pedals, which without a doubt are the single most important piece of hardware is your pedals. Once you have established muscle memory and your body can react to what the car is doing in the sim instinctively, it makes little difference what hardware you’re using. We covered this in a lot more detail in our beginner’s guide series but basically what it boils down to is Muscle Memory. So the first thing I want you guys to understand is that this is absolutely not the case. We've taken a look and reviewed some of the best products that might help you get started on your sim racing journey, without breaking the bank.Everybody’s budget is going to be different, and unfortunately, as with any hobby, there is an element of elitism within the sim racing community at times, which tricks a lot of people into thinking that you need to spend crazy amounts of money to be able to be competitive and have fun. To build your first racing setup, you'll need two products ideally, a racing seat, or rig, and a racing wheel with included pedals. So that got us thinking, what mix of products would be suitable for someone looking to get started in sim racing at home? And, how much would you need to spend? As it turns out, it could be cheaper than you think. There are loads of products you can buy that will help you build your own professional racing setup, with a number of racing rigs, wheel stands, racing seats, wheels, pedals and even full simulators all available to buy somewhere online. Professional Formula 1 racing drivers like Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, Williams' George Russell, Red Bull Racing's Alexander Albon and McLaren's Lando Norris have all featured in these online sim events, often held on Codemasters' F1 2019, with the drivers having awesome racing setups in their own home. With people having to spend long periods of time indoors during the UK lockdown, there has been a huge increase in people wanting to do sim racing, made all the more popular by events such as the F1 Virtual GP and Veloce Esports 'Not the GP' series, as people look to go racing from the comfort of their own homes.
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