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Sim Racing Review´s Doug Meyer checks out the Sim-Gear Lightning SST Shifter. The Lightning SST™ was engineered specifically for simulated racing. Designed by professionals to be used by professionals. This shifter uses a real ball & socket design, found in many standard shift automobiles, and offers a true H-style gate pattern with 8 gear positions. Ready out of the box with complete plug 'n play USB windows compatibility, so no extra hardware or software is needed.

The " Silver Dash" is a special dash SimRacingHardware.com has build to a customer specification / design. It features Autometer analogue gauges, 3 LCD screens, gear indicator and digital speedometer as well as dual shift light arrays and a custom LED Pedal position gauge. The dash itself is custom made from 3mm thick, brushed stainless steel as are the bezels.

Fanatic wants to include your opinion in the future wheel rimsdevelopment for the ClubSport wheel. They are currently working on four rims of which two of them have been announced already. They would like to encourage you to let them know what rims you like most and what functions they should have.

During a training session at ARC_Team, Julian Leal tried some of our top products as ARC_Pedals, ARC_Wheel GT and ARC_Gearbox. All peripherals are installed in a special new frame totally builded in Ergal. Ómar Julián Leal Covelli, commonly known as Julián Leal, (born May 11, 1990 in Bucaramanga) is a professional racing driver from Colombia, although he has also competed with an Italian licence in the GP2 Series.

On his blog,Thomas from Fanatec, announced the Pricing of the ClubSport Wheel series. The Clubsport wheelbase can accept different rims. Appart from the BMW GT2 and Formula rim Thomas hinted that there will be a few other addons in the near future.

Probably the best location you can get for a racing simulator. This was recorded in the pit Sebastian Vettel used on his last F1 GP at Hockenheim Ring. There was a test session for all Porsche Carrera Cup and Supercup teams and the introduction of a new racing simulation.

The Type S wheel's design has been born of a desire to manufacture a high end, simulator quality wheel that has all the functions and build quality of a real race wheel, but at a much more realistic cost. Based on a real, race legal, alloy framed 'formula' wheel that is then heavily modified by us to fit the G25 and to accommodate our especially designed plate. The Type S wheel features the 'Formula wheel' itself, an SLI-Pro display, six momentary buttons, plus 2 more shielded buttons/switches at the top of the wheel. Below are four rotary encoders that also have built in momentary buttons, giving a total of 20 inputs (including the encoders) all housed in one of our beautiful wheel plates.

nVidia's new GeForce GTX 680 running in a Quad SLI setup. The SLI and Triple-SLI benchmarks were run on our standard testing rig. It consists of an Intel Core i7 3960X (Sandy Bridge-E) processor, an ASUS P7X79 Pro motherboard, 16 GB Corsair DDR3-1600 RAM, a Samsung Spinpoint F1 hard drive and a Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200 watt power supply. For Quad-SLI we switched to an ASUS Rampage IV Formula motherboard and an Enermax Platimax 1500W PSU. All benchmarks were done in Windows 7 x64.

ARC Quote; The Torino Motorsport team has arrived in Pavia with four of its drivers in order to prepare their to the first round of Formula Renault championship, scheduled in Monza for this weekend, using the ARC_Team Training Center. Yesterday morning we have been on our simulator Michael Dorrbecker (with Alps car) and Marco Tulio Souza, young brazilian driver who debuts in Italy, with a Challenge version. In the afternoon, with Luigi Stracquadaneo (Wolves Management), we have been on F1Driving Dario Capitanio and Lorenzo Paggi, (entrant in Challenge F.Renault 2.0).