• Newly designed belt drive mechanism that’s made completely of metal and uses high quality ball bearings and German made belts to deliver the smoothest, most precise force feedback on the market

• Tuning functions with LED display that allows players to adjust the turning angle (90° to 900° of steering rotation), force feedback, vibration, sensitivity, with the ability to save up to five presets.
• Five “Drift mode” adjustments to allow quicker turning ratio.
• Compatible with most Fanatec Porsche 911 products. Also compatible with the PlayStation 3 and PC.

GE: Your products are notoriously hard to find, other than direct from your website. I know many people who wish you collaborated with retailers such as Amazon. Can you elaborate on whether or not you intend to expand to other retailers, or do you plan on keeping things internal with sales via your site only?

FAN: We currently plan to only offer our wheels through our website that we are currently revamping for a much more user friendly experience. That way we can keep the cost down for the end user and also be directly in contact with them. If we go through an Amazon or major retailer, we lose that relationship by having a third party distribute our gear.

Read the whole interview here

22 Sep 2011 by Tony Hsieh

I really don’t have enough time with the wheel to give a proper evaluation of it.. I can say this.. It is one of the smoothest steering mechanisms in all of sim racing. The Force Feedback is very strong while being precise.

The location of the paddle shifters were placed in close proximity to your hand for positive shifts and are similar in size to what you might find on a G27. One of my complaints with the current Fanatec line of wheels is the paddle shifter or button,. This is no longer the case. This wheel and the standard CSR have a much better paddle shifting system.

We will have more on this wheel and the rest of the line up in our E3 Fanatec special report that will be out by the end of this week. It will include an interview with some tech guy at Fanatec named “Mr T”. He was quiet a character. Jessica ran into him at the Codemasters booth while we were checking out F1 2011.



Besides the interview, our crew captured some never before seen footage of something that will shock many sim racers. We also got to see the first images of the Clubsport Shifter that we will share with everyone as well.

I’ve included some images from our time with the CSR Elite at E3. Some are 1920 x 1080 and the others aren’t as large unfortunately because I captured them from footage we have of the wheel. We’ll have more on this wheel, the CSR, Clubsport Handbrake and Shifter as well as a special surprise that you’ll have to watch our Fanatec E3 special.