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More testers for website needed - UPDATE

We are very close to release the new website and then we are finally able to start taking pre-orders for the CSW as well.

If you are interested to help us finding the last remaining bugs please  just make a short post here and Marie will contact you with the log in data.

Thank you very much in advance!

UPDATE:

Thanks for the great response. It is great to have such a helpful communities and so many helpful people. 

We have almost 100 testers and this is enough to get it fully tested.  Fantastic!

 

ClubSport Wheel Embargo Date

Next week the last of the community testers will receive their wheels so that the testing period can start. I wanted to give all testers at least 2 weeks for testing so that means that the embargo date of the Clubsport wheel and rims as well as the Clubsport Pedals V2 will end on June 29th at 13.00 German time.

 

Great LED support in Live for Speed

Gerben has made good use of our SDK and made a fantastic implemention of our wheels in Live for Speed.

In the video you can see what you can do with the LED display if it is supported by the game.

In order to be able to properly show this telemetry data you need to upgrade the firmware of your wheel. We are therefore working on firmware updates for the following wheels:

 

Production of ClubSport wheel has started

We finally started the production of the ClubSport base and rims.

The production preparation took longer than expected as we decided to make a lot of customized fixtures for each step in order to get maximum quality.

You can see the production line in a short video I made with my mobile phone and posted on our Facebook page.

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Introducing the new ClubSport Pedals V2

We thought about how to make something good even better and came up with the evolution of a legend. The ClubSport Pedals V2.

The ClubSport Pedal was the first of our ClubSport product line which represent these values:

 

Community test for Clubsport Wheel: Round 4

Almost all polls are closed so we are almost ready to start ROUND 4 of the community test for our new ClubSport Wheel and ClubSport Pedals V2.

Let the tests begin!

We have received the air shipment of the ClubSport Wheels with rims along with brand new ClubSport Pedals V2. I will show you more details about this pedal very soon but you can also expect to see some reviews as well if some testers decide to test them. 

Sean will now start to ask all testers what equipment they like to test.

 

Display support for ClubSport Wheel in iRacing EDIT: ...and pCARS

Steaphan Turpin made a plug in for iRacing to show different settings in the Tuning display of the ClubSport Wheel.

You can also see the rev lights working on the Formula rim for the first time.  Please note that the intensity of theblue LEDs will be increased in mass production. On the video the first 3 LEDs on the left appear to be red but they are yellow.

He used the Lotus 79 on Virginia raceway and on the display you can see the current fuel consumption.

 

Community test for ClubSport Wheel: Round 3

We finally started ROUND 3 with the polls to select the community testers.Thank you very much for the great interest and participation in not less than 32 simracing forums of many counties.

This is probably the biggest community review ever made for simracing hardware and I would like to thank everybody for the application and the efforts they already made to introduce themselves. I am also very happy about the choice we made with the CTMs as they are doing a superb job.

 

What rim do you want?

Let's talk about future wheel rims for the ClubSport wheel.

We are currently working on four rims of which two of them have been announced already. I would like to encourage you to let me know what rims you like most and what functions they should have like

 

Pricing of ClubSport Wheel series

As we are getting the final manufacturing cost I can confirm the final pricing of the ClubSport Wheel series.

Prices are as usual in Euro with VAT included and in USD without sales tax.

ClubSport Wheel Base: 449,95

BMW GT2 rim: 249,95

Formula rim: 179,95

This is just the beginning so there will be much more rims coming up at a lower and higher price. Pricing for Japan, Australia and Canada will be announced at a later date.

 
 
 
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