Anyone had or own one of these, i am seriuosly looking into this but wouldnt know where to start.
Anyone had or own one of these, i am seriuosly looking into this but wouldnt know where to start.
I know the guys who own https://www.vesaro.com/store/pc/home.asp.
Amazing kit
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This is my rig. It consists of:
Sim Lab GT1 Evo cockpit
OMP TRS-E seat
AccuForce Pro v2 wheel
Fanatec Formula rim converted to USB by Simracingmachines.com
Fanatec CSP v3 pedals
Thrustmaster TH8 shifter
DSD P1 and P2 button boxes
Oculus Rift CV1 HMD
Crikey!!!Originally Posted by Phil Lee
This is my rig. It consists of:
Sim Lab GT1 Evo cockpit
OMP TRS-E seat
AccuForce Pro v2 wheel
Fanatec Formula rim converted to USB by Simracingmachines.com
Fanatec CSP v3 pedals
Thrustmaster TH8 shifter
DSD P1 and P2 button boxes
Oculus Rift CV1 HMD
There are some much more expensive setups out there. You can get full motion cockpits if you are prepared to spend the money.
A great YouTube channel for reviewing high end sim racing gear is the Sim Racing Garage - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT_...WSm7oziV1OZloQ
wow Phil ! haha
what platform do you use for that?
Here is my GT Sport sim.
I can get great discounts on Thrustmaster wheels if anyone is interested.
A different world. Wow!
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I noticed Guy Martin used one of these for practising the ‘Ring:
http://www.aeonsim.com/product/aeon-...-play-package/
Simulator cockpits. You're doing it wrong https://sexyrealsexdolls.com
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D-box solutions are the best you can get for a multi axis home sim rig. The problem is each actuator costs around £4K, making it a very expensive option. There are cheaper home motion rigs which move the seat and can also move the platform to simulate rear traction loss.
I have one. Might be getting rid of it soon. Not using it much.
Just a question Phil, why not buy a banger and get to Oulton Park for real experiences for a year? Cheaper and it's real with real memories. Serious question.
I do a dozen or so track days per year and I have an entry level sim rig. You don't have to fill up a sim rig with petrol, or fit new tyres, or spend 6 months and thousands of pounds rebuilding the thing when you put it into the wall. Nor do you have to get up at stupid o'clock in the morning to drive to the middle of nowhere in the pouring rain with a van full of crap. If you bin it, you just press reset rather than take a tin pigeon ride to A&E. You can change your set up instantly at the click of a mouse and not after 2 hours rattling spanners. Sim rigs take up a lot less room and the driving experience I find is 90% as rewarding with zero risk. Bang for the buck, a sim rig wins by a country mile.
Each to their own but I can’t possibly see how this can be the case. Much like there can be no comparison regardless of how much you spend between a flight sim and flying a real fast jet.
Part of the thrill of racing is precisely that there is risk. To remove the risk and sit at home in your man cave is to remove the thrill. All IMO of course.
I know what you mean. When I was skydiving a lot of people liked wind tunnels as much as jumping. I didn't. I just saw tunnels as a training aid. Flying head first towards a planet at 260mph is thrilling. Floating about is a windy room holding hands is not. But I do find sim racing rewarding and it has nothing to do with the threat of death. Flights sims however are dull, as is flying. YMMV.
Last edited by Groundrush; 14th May 2019 at 12:43.
Sim racing has been my hobby since I bought my first PC in 1994. I got serious with it in 1999 when I took over one of the major sim racing forums at the time. I continued to run the forum until 2005 at which point it had over 50000 users.
I have always loved sim racing and racing real people online. I’ve made a lot of long term friends through it. That’s the main reason why I’ve continued, its a niche community which I’ve been a part of for a long time.
I have no interest in real racing. I can race online at any time to fit in with my family, something I couldn’t do in real life. Most of my racing at the moment happens in the mornings against Australians.
Understood, but do have a go on a real track sometime though, you'll find that it is far more rewarding and you'll find that on the real tracks there are tiny characteristics that you won't get on a sim no matter how good it is. coming out of Druidds at Oulton for instance there is an almost imperceptible dip that is higher at one side leading to nothing at the other side, at(relatively) slower speeds it doesn't matter, at higher speeds and in the wrong place the steering goes light giving that seat of the pants moment. As somebody said it's the thrill of trying to get it right at higher speeds that makes it's own reward. You'll also find that having driven the real track your skill on the sim will more than likely improve.
I think it goes the other way. Sim driving helps on track as you know which way the track goes, where the brake points are etc etc. But no matter how good your kit at home it doesn’t replicate the real thing, sim driving is a thing of its own to be enjoyed for what it is.
Goodness, this puts my former enjoyment of an F1 game on the original PlayStation to shame.
David
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I know this is an old thread but am just curious if anyone has a rig for sale?
Been toying with the idea for a while now and am going to take the plunge if the right setup comes along
I thought this was a fairly imaginative cockpit setup.
Haha... It would be tempting just to see the reaction from the Mrs 😂😂I thought this was a fairly imaginative cockpit setup.
I'm a bit biased I used to own a gen5 Celica gt4 so for me that would be a superb setupHaha... It would be tempting just to see the reaction from the Mrs
I do miss iRacing a bit and I'm really tempted to get back into it with a VR setup. Anyone else doing this?
I race regularly in iRacing. The new season has just started. There were a lot of changes in the new build including the first test version of AI drivers and the NTMV7 (new tyre model version 7) getting rolled out to a lot more cars.
I bought a VR rig specifically for sim racing. It was a complete waste of money due to the vomit inducing weirdness of being completely sat still when your eyes are telling you you're going round corners, up hills, braking etc. After much perseverance I can now hold my lunch down but it's still too much of a mind bender to be either useful or fun. YMMV.
Here is mine.
GT-G wheel for GT Sport and Sparco Evo III seat.
There’s been a massive increase in the popularity of sim racing in the last couple of weeks. The number of pro drivers taking it up is amazing. Many of them are streaming on Twitch and YouTube too. It’s amazing to see my hobby of more than 20 years become so popular.
What better time to get back into iRacing? Here's a very old Logitech G25 wheel that was in the attic, an old 32" TV that was doing nothing in the spare room, my laptop and a Next Level Racing F-GT cockpit I just bought off t'internet. Brmmmm brmmmm.
Great to see you in the Skippy. It’s not much fun at Spa though.
I do prefer open wheelers and Spa is an awesome track - even for the Skippy. I'm struggling to decide which other cars to buy; the Formula Renault 2.0 or the Dallara F3. I can't seem to find anywhere how popular each car is before I splash any cash.
I’m starting to get withdrawal symptoms. I’ve been working away on AC, getting more consistent and getting up there with the quick guys. My TS-XW suddenly started making a weird clicking noise when simulating vibrations (it’s about 6 months old). Quick chat with Guillemot online, they requested a video of the issue and upon review, they sent me an RMA ticket and Fedex return shipment.
Has now been about 10 days of no driving, and the wheelbase received by them yesterday.
Pretty impressed so far with their reaction and service. Fingers crossed they find the issue and fix it.
This home sim is on a different planet....
Quite brilliant !
So glad is was able to experience the NA/Turbo era before the tree huggers got involved.
For hours after the GP my ears would ring
The wife would have a fit at the cables everywhere !!
This is a pretty decent rig.
All in you’re looking at at least £15K for it.
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