Fanatec Reveals New Podium DD Wheel Base and Podium Pedals at SimRacing Expo 2025

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Nice. Waiting for more details and want to know the price.

I wonder if the custom load cell design harkens back to the CSL V1's load cell design? Honestly it was a decent idea, just not the best application of that design.
 
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Kewl. Like the F1 pedal setup. Many have been waiting on new pedals. Those on PC that love the chunky DD’s will surely be happy they get a true successor.
 
I'm slightly disappointed because I was expecting active pedals (in the range between simucubes and mozas products) ._.
But let's see the price, this set could be still the best pedal set with console support.
 
Same...want to know the price estimate. I'm guessing the pedals will be around $800

edit: would be nice if they dropped them around the Holidays
 
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Manicuk
I’m having some of those for sure 👌👌
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The email newsletter I received from Fanatec said available sometime in Q1 2026. I'm guessing that could Jan-April sometime.
 
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Not even any rumble motors like the existing pedals? The hardware looks super good, though. Very happy to see it appears you can adjust the throttle's travel distance, that's really the only complaint I ever had with my Clubsport pedals, though I don't really notice it anymore after so many years of using them. And no PS support for the new wheel base?
 
Yeah. Missed the lack of motors initially. Still boggled that they don’t see a reason to implement full force in a pedal system. Think I’d pay about $400-500 for these. They just don’t seem to provide anything new or interesting to support a higher price. In fact, this being the product after such a long wait makes me think something like sim magic and just moving to PC is probably a better choice. If they released these a few years ago snapping them up would have been an easy decision. Now…much less so. Hoped Corsair would have made things better.

Meh.
 
Kriptical
Yeah. Missed the lack of motors initially. Still boggled that they don’t see a reason to implement full force in a pedal system. Think I’d pay about $400-500 for these. They just don’t seem to provide anything new or interesting to support a higher price. In fact, this being the product after such a long wait makes me think something like sim magic and just moving to PC is probably a better choice. If they released these a few years ago snapping them up would have been an easy decision. Now…much less so. Hoped Corsair would have made things better.

Meh.
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Even though I’m soon to receive my BSB 2 VR set that will finally have my PC racing up and running, I feel like I still want PS compatibility for the future even if all that really means is GT8. That means still sticking to Fanatec, it seems. I’m not sure what I’ll end up doing when I upgrade my driving equipment again. I’d like to perhaps move up to even higher-grade stuff, but I’m pretty hapoy with how my DD+ and Fanatec stuff feels and performs. And things like active pedals really amp up the cost. Sigh. I just dunno right now what I’ll do.
 
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super_gt
I wonder what these holes are for.

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iCue LED strips, I presume. I could be wrong though. Perhaps they serve no purpose and are merely dimples to make you think there's some sort of modification that could go there. :P

But seriously, what sort of haptic shaker would be able to overcome that elastomer stack? That looks pretty beefy. Will we have to run 50watt bass shakers mounted on those two teeny-tiny holes?
 
Was hoping for hydraulic brakes, tbh. Kinda disappointed, but at the same time I'm sure they are better than the v3 that are pushing 10 years old now.


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Even though I’m soon to receive my BSB 2 VR set that will finally have my PC racing up and running, I feel like I still want PS compatibility for the future even if all that really means is GT8. That means still sticking to Fanatec, it seems. I’m not sure what I’ll end up doing when I upgrade my driving equipment again. I’d like to perhaps move up to even higher-grade stuff, but I’m pretty hapoy with how my DD+ and Fanatec stuff feels and performs. And things like active pedals really amp up the cost. Sigh. I just dunno right now what I’ll do.
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Yeah. Pretty much exactly this. After such a long wait for podium pedals these feel underwhelming. On one hand, I kinda want to stay ps6 compatible…on the other, once I go either BSB or Pimax maybe consoles and psvr2 loose their luster. PS6 is already rumored to be weaker than the upcoming xbox spec wise and driving in vr definitely isn’t cheap from a compute standpoint. That and despite gt7 having the potential for great force feedback, it seems as if Sony/PD prefer the current settings…which are at best, tolerable at the moment. AC Evo, or iracing, or project motor sports could come in and make me forget about gran turismo entirely, and then I’ll have spent and waited for nothing. Meh….

And honestly…the last thing I want to do is outfit everything with bass shakers etc and have one more thing to tune in. It would have been such an easy decision to get these if they were better thought out. Heck, I was on the way to the Next Level page to compare new cockpits with fanatec stuff when I came back here and saw your post. So thanks for that.

Not sure whats so hard to understand about people wanting to feel the road through their feet. I’m driving a lot of back roads these days and the texture felt in my feet, relative to grip etc, is part of how I drive and always has been. Not sure how people drive…umm quickly… without those sensations.. Know I would have put my car into cornfields, creeks or tree’s dozens of times without those sensations to bring me back. Just meh…
 
Dopplegagger
The whole arm tilts. The pedal faces don't.
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Not sure that's a great way up go. That simply rotates the whole pedal down making the pedal actuator curve different. Ultimately you would want the actuator curve/pivot to stay in proper alignment for feel and be able to modify the pedal face to accommodate personal preference.
 
V3 to V3i to SimNet SP pro most recently - If I had waited these new pedals would likely have been next instead of the SimNets

and they DO look nice design wise

But I’m not sensing much difference performance wise - maybe future reviews/comparos will tell - at a likely higher price point

Haptics integrated w FullForce SDK on console might tempt me
 
super_gt
I wonder what these holes are for.
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My guess: screw holes for the pedal plates :D
(I like to have a "short" throttle & clutch paddle, but a "long" brake pedal/pedal paltes mounted high with load cells for more leverage)
 
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Not sure that's a great way up go. That simply rotates the whole pedal down making the pedal actuator curve different. Ultimately you would want the actuator curve/pivot to stay in proper alignment for feel and be able to modify the pedal face to accommodate personal preference.
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I miswrote what I intended to write. The pedal rotates. The arm, and the sled (what I call it). The pedal throw remains unaffected when tilting the pedals. The center of the bearing stays put, and the assembly rotates. It's just like the Heusinkveld Sprints and the Ultimate pedals.

This is a better look at what's happening...

 
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Kriptical
Yeah. Missed the lack of motors initially. Still boggled that they don’t see a reason to implement full force in a pedal system. Think I’d pay about $400-500 for these. They just don’t seem to provide anything new or interesting to support a higher price. In fact, this being the product after such a long wait makes me think something like sim magic and just moving to PC is probably a better choice. If they released these a few years ago snapping them up would have been an easy decision. Now…much less so. Hoped Corsair would have made things better.

Meh.
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Corsair bought Fanatec in September of 2024. A year and a month later Fanatec shows Clubsport pedals. Its a pretty quick turn around.

Also if these were in work and ready to go ahead of the purchase, they would have beat the Porsche vision wheel to the market. If nothing else, Corsair's capital allowed Fanatec to get back to making products and getting them to market quicker. Under the old mgmt, Fanatec took 2 years to bring the QR2 to market. This took a little over a year. Seems like an improvement.
 
Dopplegagger
Corsair bought Fanatec in September of 2024. A year and a month later Fanatec shows Clubsport pedals. Its a pretty quick turn around.

Also if these were in work and ready to go ahead of the purchase, they would have beat the Porsche vision wheel to the market. If nothing else, Corsair's capital allowed Fanatec to get back to making products and getting them to market quicker. Under the old mgmt, Fanatec took 2 years to bring the QR2 to market. This took a little over a year. Seems like an improvement.
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yes on the HW side - but the SW/FW has been a bigger learning curve and so far much slower improvement. The long used legacy code and broad eco system support makes it difficult but they must have lost some tribal knowledge during the transition as issues keep showing up with each release

New releases are required for new HW but they really need to fix the code dev and management systems. They’ve already narrowed the eco system by ending development for the belt drive bases so that will help
 
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The more I think about it, I’ll likely grab the pedals. Would love true active pedals but not at today’s prices, and maintaining Playstation compatibility is something I probably want to do. I may change my view by the time these release because I should be fully up and running on PC well before then. Maybe that will make me realize I won’t ever care about racing on a console again but GT will always be awesome, too.

Regardless, seems odd/classic Fanatec move to apparently be launching these Podium pedals without the haptic motors being ready and needing to be added later. Hopefully they are ready quite soon post-launch.
 
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