Black Friday has come early for anyone shopping for a sim racing cockpit. Next Level Racing’s sale is already live in the United States, with 10% off its aluminum-profile Elite cockpits and Elite accessories through December 5, a free accessory with every Elite cockpit while supplies last, and eight new bundles created for the event.
Better still, our Next Level Racing discount code works on top of the sale prices. When we announced that code in September, the fine print said it wouldn’t combine with other promotions, so this is a welcome exception. Enter GTPLANET at checkout and another 5% comes off!
All prices here are US prices (click the product name to see pricing for your region in the GTPlanet Rig Builder), and every one of them is the lowest we’ve tracked since we started watching the Next Level Racing store in September. As an affiliate partner of Next Level Racing, we may earn a commission on purchases made through our links or with our code at no extra cost to you.
The GTElite Lite Is the One to Watch
If you only look at one deal, make it the GTElite Lite Wheel Plate Edition. It’s the least expensive way into Next Level Racing’s aluminum-profile range, and it’s the same cockpit Hyundai chose as the foundation of its N Racing Simulator. It’s rated for direct drive wheel bases above 16 Nm, which means you can bolt almost anything to it and it will still be the right rig after your next wheel upgrade.
For context, the best price we could point you to in September was $569.05 with the code. It can also be upgraded later with Formula seating or motion hardware, so it’s a sensible place to start even if you have bigger plans.
The step up is the GTElite Wheel Plate Edition, which adds reinforced carbon steel plates for the wheel, pedals, and shifter, and includes seat brackets in the box. If you run a shifter or handbrake, the included mount closes a good part of the price gap by itself.
A Folding Option for Less
Of course, not everybody has room for a permanent aluminum rig.
The F-GT Lite Carbon Grey Edition isn’t part of the official Black Friday list, but it has been marked down since late October. It folds away with your wheel and pedals still attached, includes its own seat, and switches between Formula and GT positions.
It’s built for lighter wheels (up to about 8 Nm), which covers most of what Gran Turismo 7 players have clamped to a desk right now. For a complete cockpit with a seat, that is not much money.
Formula and GT in One Rig
The GTElite cockpits put you in a GT seating position. If you spend as much time in open-wheelers as you do in GT3 cars, the F-GT Elite models adjust between Formula, GT, and hybrid positions (and truck and tank positions, should the mood strike).
The F-GT Elite Lite Wheelplate Edition costs exactly the same as the GTElite during the sale, which makes for an interesting choice. The GTElite gives you a shifter mount, and the F-GT Elite Lite gives you the extra seating positions. Pick based on what you drive.
At the top of the range, the F-GT Elite 160 Wheel Plate Edition is built on a much heavier 160 mm by 40 mm base profile and is compatible with the company’s motion platforms. It also carries the biggest dollar saving of the standard cockpits.
The Scuderia Ferrari Edition is included in the sale as well, at $1,169.10 (down from $1,299), or $1,110.64 with code GTPLANET.
Don’t Forget the Seat
None of the Elite cockpits above include a seat, which is easy to miss when you’re comparing prices. Elite seats are not part of the 10% Black Friday discount, but one of them has dropped in price anyway.
The ES2 Elite Sim Racing Seat is a wide, side-mount fiberglass bucket seat that fits up to a 42-inch waist, and it fell from $449 to $399 at the start of November. With our code, it’s $379.05.
Monitor Stands and Accessories
The 10% discount also covers Elite accessories, and the monitor stands are the highlight. The Elite Freestanding Triple Monitor Stand holds three screens from 21 to 43 inches and stands on its own feet, so a direct drive wheel can’t shake your monitors. It’s $449.10, down from $499, or $426.64 with code GTPLANET.
The single monitor stand (for screens up to 65 inches) is down to $269.10, and the quad stand is $539.10. Smaller add-ons are discounted too, including the Elite Shifter Add-On at $134.10 and the Universal Seat Brackets at $89.10. Our code applies to all of them, too.
The Fine Print
In the US, the sale runs from November 9 through December 5. It includes eight new Black Friday bundles, which you’ll find on the Next Level Racing store, and a free VR Headset & Cup Holder with any Elite cockpit. That freebie is only available while stock lasts, so it could disappear before the sale does.
The UK gets the same offers from November 16 through December 5. In Europe (Germany, Austria, Italy, and France), the sale is one week only, from November 23 through November 30, and it covers the eight bundles without the 10% Elite discount or the free accessory.
Elite seats and motion platforms are excluded from the 10% discount everywhere.
You Could Have Already Known This…
Every price in this article comes from the GTPlanet Rig Builder, the free tool we launched last week to help you find, compare, and price sim racing hardware. The product cards above are live, so they’ll show the current price and discount whenever you happen to be reading this.
The Rig Builder checks prices and stock at every store, every day. Its Price Tracker logged these Next Level Racing cuts the day they happened, and subscribers to the Daily Deals newsletter had them in their inbox the next morning, days before I got around to writing this article. You can sign up below, and with the rest of the industry’s Black Friday sales about to begin, this is a good week to do it.
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It’s also the easiest way to work out what a complete setup will cost. Start a new build with any of these cockpits, add a seat, wheel, and pedals, and the Rig Builder will check that everything fits together and keep a running total with the discounts applied.
Planning a new rig around one of these deals, or already racing in one? Head over to GTPlanet’s Sim Racing Hardware forums and show us what you’re building!
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