Fancy Steering wheels faster than less expensive?

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So I'm curious if the fancier wheels (ie, G27, Thrustmaster) can make the drivers faster around the track, and essentially provide an unfair advantage over older and less expensive wheels (ie Driving Force Pro)?

Anyone have experience to this issue?
 
Waiting for some honest replies on this. Several years ago, My wife bought me a Madcatz wheel. I have never had much luck with it, and can't decide if it's due to it being a cheaper wheel or that I am just not cut out for using any wheel.
 
I've never used a wheel, though I guess on a simple level a more expensive wheel will be smoother and sturdier and more accurate to your input as well as to simulating the "real feel".

Plus it will feel much nicer, look nicer, sound nicer, last longer and smell nicer, and you will play more often (I think)
 
The more expensive wheels are better equipment and provide a more realistic feel but do not make you faster (unfortunately :sly:)

As evidence - of the 16 Orlando finalists in the GT academy here in North america, there were at least 3 who were on DFP's, 4 or 5 on DFGT's, and 1 on a controller. I don't believe anyone used a thrustmaster for the competition (as it came out while it was going on) but I'm sure it's a blast to use.
 
As an owner of a g27 and having used a very cheap wheel there is definitely an improvement in lap times, licenses etc. This is due mainly to the deadzone in the steering input. There is no difference if you compare a dfgt in terms of times , only pedal feel and the noise factor.
 
With fancier wheels the pedals are where the advantage is. DFGT still uses the same flimsy pedals that were used in DFP and that momo wheel.
 
If there's a difference, it's small. I would suppose that the Logitech wheels (DFP, DFGT, G27, etc.) only mature in the accuracy, but if you're skilled enough it won't matter.

Besides, 18 people in the current WRS Trial (including me) are beaten by at least 3 controller drivers.
 
They had different guys playing different type sims- like dirt ralley, F1, GT
the result was each wheel had a tester fastest with it, so no clear winner there.
But once other factors where introduced, such as Fanatecs rotation adjustment etc then they did pick an overall winner but even then basically said all of them where pretty good perhaps except the TM cheapo.

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InsideSimRacing did a comparison of a variety of wheels on different racing games (I think)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMn5FScd66k

the DFGT is the most efficient. Especially because it's fully supported for GT5.
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