Do you prefer licensed hardware?

[Jimmi Allison]

How important is it to you that you get replica and licensed wheel products?

 

[Peter Kerényi]

If I drive a Ferrari with a Ferrari wheel, it's great. If I drive a Ford Transit with a Ferrari wheel, it's weird. One gets used to it of course... All things considered, I prefer generic.

 

[Vintagedriver01]

I really do not care, if it is an BYD or Aston Martin brand on it, I only prefer a big round wheel not an yoke style airplane model and do hate a hard cheap plastic wheel rim.

 

[Kevin Troschinski]

Do not care. I drive everything from vintage over openwheelers to rally, so the only real important thing is - the wheel has to be a 30-32" oval one, so i do not feel weird driving one of the categorys.
I couldn´t´ use a 28" GT3 wheel for Vintage cars for example. And i am too lazy too switch the wheels all the time, because i am often driving different cars a day.

 

[Pete Conway]

The one big one for me is 'no fancy modern stuff'
Being a cloudy eyed coffin dodger, there's nothing that would encorage me to spend wedge on a wheel with far too many buttons on it, most of which I'd press trying to find the one I want... only to forget which one it was a few seconds later, it would only be made worse by glueing a Ferrari sticker on it, even the G29 has too many buttons for me,
What I'd really like is an Aluminium wheel with a rosewood trimed rim, and three pedals and a 4/5 slot H patern gear stick.
If a company can come up with <5nm* base that wont rip my arms out of their sockets, and a set of pedals that do the job with 'clutch feel' too, along with the above mentioned wheel and shifter I'd throw money at them.
But far too many are making needless** stuff for an extra few quid to folks that are told that they need it.

*This is just a guess as the figures mean very little to me but from what I gather it's low
**Why does a brake pedal (on F1-GT3/4 whatever) need to be so damn hard to press when it's fly-by-wire? don't make sense to me to make something more difficult.

 

[Slapped]

*This is just a guess as the figures mean very little to me but from what I gather it's low

Whatever wheelbase you have you can always limit the maximum output. I have a 25nm wheelbase which I never set above around 6-7nm for the exact same reason as you - I don't want my fingers broken or my arms ripped out of their sockets.

Yeah, I overspent, but it was a while ago when DD was expensive and it was pretty much 20nm plus fest. These days there are some good options in the 5nm range from Moza, and dare I say it, Fanatec, which if I was doing it again I would probably go for something like that - probably in the 9nm range so that I'd have some headroom.

**Why does a brake pedal (on F1-GT3/4 whatever) need to be so damn hard to press when it's fly-by-wire? don't make sense to me to make something more difficult.

First off it's not always fly by wire, but that aside it's more realistic for a sim racer to set the pedals to somewhere between 30 to 50 Kg of force.

In a real car under braking the g-force is actually helping you press the pedal - F1 cars brake at around 5g and GT3 can reach around 2.5 - 3g, so under peak braking that 150Kg F1 brake pedal becomes closer to 30Kg in terms of the actual effort to press it.

So these sim racing advertised 120kg at pedal face pedals are actually a fallacy, and any decent pedal set should offer you a good selection of elastomers and/or springs to get the pedals to have a more correct amount of deflection.

 

[THK84]

It's very hard to see any kind of wheel branding through my VR goggles.

 

[jgf]

Quality and value are more important to me than paying extra to have an auto manufacturer's name on it.

 

[stenovitz]

Ferrari trademark and heritage?
Is that what's it about?

Yes, please.

Bring some classics and fill the online grids with these, mandatory Clutch-heel&toe+H-stick all the way, blend with some classic tracks fitting the cars...

... and I might make an iR resub.

• Ferrari 125 S - where it all started
• Ferrari 166 Mille Miglia
• Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta "Scaglietta"
• Ferrari 275 GTB
• Ferrari 330 P3/P4
• Ferrari 512 S

And then please add likely some Italian fellows of even and odd breeds, like e.g.

• Bizzarrini 5300 GT Corsa
• Abarth 750 GT "Double Bubble" Zagato
• Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM
• Abarth Simca 1300
• ATS 2500 GT
• Osca MT 4
• Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ2
• Alfa Romeo 750 Competizione
• Moretti 750 Grand Sport
• Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speziale
• Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/3
• De Tomaso Vallelunga / Mangusta / Pantera
• Stanguellini 1100 Sport
• Iso Grifo GL 300
• Iso Grifo Series II
• Siata 208 S

...yes, I would just love iRacing going down that path, lurking newcomer electrifying gens into proper online racing with authenticity.

OK, might not happen, but if the strivers of soul in classic motorsport don't chirp and beep once in a while, absolutely nothing will happen in that direction

 

[Elmar3rd]

I have voted, but I don't understand the question.

 

[stenovitz]

I have voted, but I don't understand the question.

Never mind about that one.

That was probably also the case the other day in another poll with slightly more voters...