The 4 most important upgrades in Simracing 

The exceptional thing about your video’s is, is that it makes you feel you are watching a video of a friend. I am sure more of your audience feel that way. Unique!

I am 62 and I got into sim racing nearly three years ago. I started with a PS4 and G29, thinking that this was just a short phase trying to hold on to my youth by playing games lol. I found out that it wasn't just a short phase playing games and upgraded to a PC running a 3080 and a Quest 2 VR headset. The immersion is just incredible for me, and with a homemade bass shaker installed under the seat made from a 100watt speaker was the cherry on the cake. I didn't feel the need to upgrade my G29 because the wheel I see is the wheel in the actual car I see through the VR headset. After watching this video you have convinced me that I need a direct drive wheelbase and a good set of pedals. I am not sure if I should be thanking you, I was happy till now lol.

I don't understand how can you be a Sim Racer and not subscribed to your channel... Please never stop uploading such precious videos 😁👍

"Life is the journey not the endresult" that gaves me goosebumps

Man you run a masterclass on not only sim racing but more importantly how to make amazing videos. Hats off to you!

6 years ago i' ve lost my left eye in an ugly incident at work. 9 month stop working, 1 year whiteout sport, my life was ended. But only 1 thing i can continue, simracing! It save my life, i'm going down after the accident but simracing give me something to do in there boring days. Have started whit a cheapest seating and now i wanna going to a serious wheel, is time for a dd..... Thank you man, you touch my mind.

My rig will never be finished, because I keep watching your amazing videos ! 😂 I really enjoy making changes and adding new devices/mods to my rig. Just received my fanatec shaft extension from Tino at T.S. custom. Had to removed my rig mounted triple screws as I can now have them closer to me!

your well thought out and incredibly edited videos on sim racing are always a breath of fresh air, but as ive been planning a big upgrade/full rebuild of my setup the reminder about patience was much needed. ive happily raced on what i would call the most budget setup you can for 4 years now, and it has been a blast. i appreciate the thorough and killer videos from you, along with many others that share opinions on gear, as i continue the upgrade journey. cheers!

The best upgrade for me by far was the Rig (PSR1 from Raceanywhere ), followed by a good set of pedals then DD wheel followed by an ultra wide monitor, I have a VR headset but do not use it because it shuts me off from the world which I cannot afford. For me a sturdy rig improves massively all other accessories

I was VR racer, but my eyes could not stand any long stints in the motion rig. Recently went to triple 50 inch screens and it has been a game changer for me. Love VR, but for me.and sims, big screen triples are perfect.

Turning my cellphone into a dash using simdash was one of the best and cheapest upgrades ive done thats my personal advice. Big bright beautiful OLED screen on my dash and no need to buy extra equipment, got a spare phone. Makes your rig go from feeling like a kit you bought into the start of an actual simrig you are building.

U’ve better quotes than a lot of motivation bullshiters. Watching Your videos is not just a pack of knowledge and ideas. It’s pure pleasure . Like always, great job

Excellent information with flawless delivery. Thanks man

Thank you for everything you contribute to this comunity! I refer to your videos and guides as a staple for my own sim experience. Please keep up your amazing work, and maybe one day I'll see you on the track.

The best advice comes at the end. Great words of wisdom on motivation and projects. Outstanding video!

the absolute love and production that went into this video is clear... you've gained another subscriber. i've no doubt your channel will grow quickly if you keep this up!

Great advice brother, especially the sentiments at the end about it taking time. Keep up the amazing videos.

amazing video, ive been racing for 8 months on a g29 with an office chair and flimsy rig, but i am saving up little by little to build a nice rig, i think once i get there i will love it but also this experience with the g29 will be beneficial to appreciate whats to come. you have earned yourself a subscriber, keep making awesome videos!

Came to this video to check out your sim rig, left with solid advice for life. Thanks 🙂

That is why i love your content brother. Information sharing, honest, entertaining, and humor.

You are the king! Wish i could share your videos with my dad, he was an old rally driver too and would absolute had loved this hobby as much as i am

One of the most honest speech you can find on RU-vid... Especially the passage about enjoying life and getting things a little at a time especially if you don't have the chance to have them all at once and always. That's why this video is more than just one thought concerning sim racing,,, but a speech that applies to all things in life! Big respect!

that's EXACTLY the point of view I always share, and young 'rich' guys will never understand: the best is when you upgrade your setup in time :) Started also on a desk, then different wooden rigs.... now I'm on alu rig with fanatec stuff..... well, that upgrade adrenaline you get out of it lasts years! Getting all at once, as you said in the video, gives 1 or a few weeks of excitement... then, gone :) Thanks for sharing!!!!

I've been working on my rig for maybe 2 years now. G920 and coffee table...to F-GT, transducers, CSL DD... more to go yet. So rewarding!

Great content as always. You are truelly the unsung philosopher of simracing, great insight and unmatched intellect and passion for this amazing hobby and community

Fantastic info and great delivery in the video! Really happy I found your channel!

Didn't have room for triples (until recently) so VR was my first real upgrade, biggest advantage I got from it was the ability to judge distances far better than I could with flat screens, I gained a lot more consistency in my driving. Consistency, is what gets you results 🙂DD wheelbases are important but I also found adding transducers to my rig helped a great deal too. I always look forward to your uploads as I know I'll gain more insight into what I can do to improve my race craft, so thank you again for all your hard work.

Loved your words in the end. You are so right

Four pillars of our sport explained excellent. Those might seem like obvious but it's always good to hear it from a perspective of the super experienced simracer. Thanks for another great one 🎬

I felt that journey part. I am slowly building my rig. Last year I had a logi G923 and a GT OMEGA ART rig. This year upgraded to CSL DD with CSL Pedals and a TR120 rig. This month I updated to Heusinkveld Sprint pedals next year illl upgrade my wheel base to a Simucube PRO or Fanatec DD1.

Appreciate it that you share your Rig so openly with us here on RU-vid, fantastic setup man, If I ever win the lottery, I have too probably contact you so we can set up something like your rig at my house, lol, took me a long time to get my setup which is a Logitech G29 and a Sound chair, and it makes me happy every time I go and drive. It`s the little things in life and you're right we should appreciate what we have, Thanks for a great Video here on RU-vid.

I wasn't expecting a video about sim upgrades to have amazing life lessons in it as well.

I love all his videos because he understands the science and psychology of the brain, gaming and racing, I too find this interesting, so yeah he is a great guy. Very humble, very educated. And very talented...keep up the good work, one of the best on RU-vid 👏

man. this is deep. i just felt its not just to play sim racing, but its a lifestyle, its a journey! So much love for your vids! Keep uploading!

This is a perfect video. I am looking forward to upgrade from my desk setup with g29 and broken brake to a moza r9 fsr wheel and fanatec clubsport v3 pedals. I play assetto corsa for 2 years now and do active simracing for 6 Month now and this is the perfect moment to start my journey. Your Video is so good it felt like an advice from a person which I am very familiar with. Thanks!!!! Keep it up

Thanks, very good Ideas for my setup.🤙

Thank you very much for this video. For me that was a motivation speech, because I thinking of building a sim rig for a while now. I guess I will start this year. Thank you.

Fantastic content sir! Great filming, great info and you know how to get people engaged. Im hoping I can get triples soon. Your rig is the ultimate goal

I have no idea who you are but you sound like a philosopher with some seriously great life lessons. Must come back later to watch more of what you have.

Another solid vid. Love your passion as mentioned your vids made me get back into racing.

Great video and great advice as always Chepi! Starting in the same position as you did. I now fully appreciate all the upgrades I have made and the times on track are not necessarily better, but I am more consistent and also feel more confident to push harder to try and find the extra tenths. As for my times... it is now my attitude and mental capacity to stop trying to push too much and focus on overall (average) race pace over the duration of a race... More consistency. Keep up all the great vids Brother ;-)

"Lembre-se, a vida é a viagem e não o resultado final, aproveite cada detalhe". Viva um dia por vez. Thanks for video.

I started in April this year with Sim racing, on a XBox Series X and Logitech G920. 2 Month later i bought a Raceroom 3055 a week later i bought some aluminium profiles to mod the steering wheel mount. This month i bought a nice Gaming PC because ACC sucks on XBox also i bought the new Fanatec V2 pedals. Now i must mount the Raceroom seat on a wooden board because the whole thing moved when breaking. The next steps need much more time, but you are right it is so much fun to see a slower evolution of the Setup. I Love your Videos go on.

Great video! You are so right!

Top notch content as always

Thanks for the philosophy at the end. I will continue to take my time :)

Great vid as always!

Another great vid, appreciate as always bro. 👍

Good Sir your videos are amazing my friend great quality great content its appreciated.

I need to send people to this video lol I know your rig took you more than half a decade. Ppl just can’t seem to understand why mine is taking about 15 months of fully dedicated building and wiring. Constant learning, testing, verifying, implementing, adjusting, perfecting, rinse, repeat. I remember one thing I took away from your content a while back that I didn’t appreciate but do now: as you get faster in the rig, you acquire new knowledge about your hardware and about precision. It was always a little bit of a buzzword for me but now I get it. For instance you don’t need to decide if you want pneumatic or hydraulic pedals at the start so don’t waste tons of time complicating things. bc you simply wouldn’t understand the difference or feel it in your feet. When you starting finding the precise limit comfortably, you naturally start to understand how to take that further and realize the fidelity in your feet could be improved leading you to study benefits of pedal types. I’ve just always appreciated that about your content. It’s not the type of hardware a driver has, it’s about what is most readily available to them to produce predictable lap times but most importantly whatever hardware helps them maximize fun. That said I totally agree with the list. A person’s natural passion for racing will decide for them the order at which they upgrade. I only just now got that NRG seat and I was blown away by the drastic difference a halo seat makes. Mostly just in simple positioning and sturdiness. No more wiggles on sharp turns. No more disruptions right in my braking zone from the little bit of play in the seat. I digress. Great one man! I’d say keep going and killing it but I know I don’t have to.

Amazing video! Thanks!

Great vid Steliyan , good to keep motivated 👍

The best way is starting with what you have available and enjoy the ride!

I see a Moza wheel… that’s quite a testimonial. 😊 Awesome video, as always, Sir. 😊

nice rig man and ive learned alot from this video ty 😄

Very true. Good advice. 👍

Amazing. Subscribed.

Love this channel. I have recently moved from thrustmaster tgt base , lcm pedals and shifters on ps5 to moza R9 and fs wheel load cell pedals and a next level f gt elite cockpit running on rtx 3080 pc witha g sync asus 21:9 ultrawide. Feels good man. Step by step one upgrade at a time.. next maybe vr headset. I started on a Logitech g25 wheel clamped to table a few years back

I really like the atmosphere and the feeling of epicness in your videos, you are really unique. When I was looking for information on which upgrade (wheelbase or pedals) should I go for first after rig and VR, I found out that the majority recommended going with pedals first. I eventually upgraded both simultaniously, but for me as an Dirt Rally enthusiast, going pedals first would been an error. DD wheel in rallying is such a cool experince and really helps on feeling the road! Also the breaking point aren't that important in rallying. Not saying that the pedals didn't improve the experience but I personally feel that they are not that important. For the fellow rally driver searching for these recommendations, my list would be 1. VR, 2. Rig, 3. DD wheel, 4. pedals.

Wise words for life 👍🏾

Slowly working my way up. Saving the money is hard, but convincing my wife where I need to spend it is the most difficult part, but a DD wheel is certainly in my future.

Yet another great informative video - so true all those upgrades are so worth it yes they are expensive but no words can express the amount of emersion & feedback you get - me saving up for some H+ pedals to complete my set up = just recently added the SImucube 2 pro - wow a fantastic piece of equipment went from a DD1 & never regretted it - keep the fantastic content coming RBM - have a great day....

I'm halfway there buddy I have to drive because I believe.🤑👍🇨🇦

tank you for the nice list, still lokking to get my load cell pedals, but for now is just fighting whit the thing you have.

Great video

Great video !~

Always informative and sharing , it would be also go to see you post some online/offline racing

Thanks ! Nice vidéo !

Triples have more than 33% FOV advantage than ultrawide because the side panels are next to you. With a 49" ultrawide you have a about 80-90° FOV. With triples 160-180°. That's is a 100% increase in FOV (double FOV)

VR was my option. It's saved me money on peripherals so I put that money into the rig (extrusion) and added the stuff I wanted (load cell pedals, HE handbrake). I went through a similar upgrade path that you did. For games I don't race in VR, I use a big-ish TV and roll the rig in front of it for some fun.

Love the content

I think i have just about everything besides wheel base its not direct drive but its fanatec CSW 2.5 still top end belt drive base just bought it at bad timing like a year before they released csl dd. Keep up the good work your videos are certainly different than most other sim racing yotubers when i saw that sg racing(also watched bunch reviews) shifter video i ordered it today as my last piece to complete the rig as i had no shifter.

always love your vids!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love this video you're spot on with everything.. I started with a wheel stand and a sofa, then I made my first diy rig out of some wood and an old arm chair 🤣 I think most of us have been here lol, then I decided to build my new diy rig out of wood and an old car seat and the difference was night and day with body position. I then got an oculus rift cv1 as that's about all my pc can run and im now about to order the moza R9 as fanatec never has any csl dds in stock.. that moza looks good though

I don't think my rig will ever be finished and that keeps me going even harder.

I've been on PC for 3 weeks now and that was the best upgrade I've done by far. Now I got triples to install and even more gear on the way. Stuff I couldn't use on console before. It's a never ending disease 😆

Those RBR videos tho haha love it

I started in the 90's and am still buying more stuff. I'm in forced early retirement and only need a good seat, money is in short supply but I'll get what I want in a few years

VR seems to me to be the killer app for this. I mean, you need the quality wheel and pedals and all that, of course, but the immersion of VR is just unbeatable. And you get stereoscopic vision so it's way easier to judge distances, and you can just look all around you to see other cars. Ideally, it should be a headset that connects via a Displayport cable, though, not a Quest 2. The Quest 2 (or Pico 4, as well) are wireless or USB only and that means they need to use graphical compression to push the image to the headset. Better to get something like a HP Reverb G2, or (in Europe) a Pico Neo 3 Link that is both standalone and wired displayport. I have the Pico 3, and it's pretty amazing to get super clear no-lag wired VR for 400 something euro. The next step up would probably be to wait for what Pimax has to offer here shortly. Way wider field of view and high resolution connected to an RTX 4090 should be fairly mind-blowing. But so would the total cost, it would probably be approaching 5000 euros... which may be a bit too pricey for most of us.

For me the best upgrade to do first once you have a force feedback wheel is to ditch the single 16:9 and get a single 21:9 or Tripple 16:9 setup, I went to a 21:9 screen and now I cant use anything smaller for racing on a wheel

the most important upgrades are skill, skill, skill and skill. if you are slow with a cheap wheel, you will be slow with an expensive wheel and other gear

Fantastic as usual RBM, love your content dude always have. Been sim racing and putting up POV content for about 5 years now but the one area I've always struggled with is lighting the correct amount and making sure it's aimed in such a way that the light doesn't hit the screens but enough to give the GoPro enough light for a quality recording. 5 years on I've never ever been satisfied with my outcomes and it's gotten to a point now where I'm just out of idea how to do it best. I use a Fovitec Studio Pro about myself but I just don't like the look of it on video and always end up seeing the reflections and light cast on my monitors. From fellow sim racer to fellow sim racer, can you give me advice on how and what to use for better results or what you actually use? Thanks

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the real first step is to make your pedals not moving from your chair, then I think a good brake pedal, then a good ffb, then a better gaz pedal, then a better display/vr

For me personally Buttkicker(or any other transducer) is something i can't drive without. Gives me more immersion than good direct drive wheel.

Danke 😉👍

Excellent, subscirbed.

Great information. Are you still running VR for competitive races or are you mainly on the triple monitors?

Here is my take: 1. Time 2. Good chair 3. Goal 4. Education 5. Passion The rest is all gimmicks that many can't afford.

Great educational video!! May I ask what headset/headphones you using?

Hey man i really like your channel. I have a Motion Rig (V3) and VR Setup (HP Reverb G2) and now i have the new Logitech DD Wheel... In past for me Rfactor 2 and Iracing i thought was the best simulation but now with the logitech pro wheel Assetto Corsa Competitione feels unbelievable realistic and it's such a huge step. I can't understand why ACC works so good with my setup. Did u test the Logitech DD wheel and make the same experince? With the 4090 the Visuals are just perfect too. By the way... Thank you for your videos!

People will kick themselves when they realize what they’ve been missing out on with direct drive when they actually decide to make the change. Almost every rig out there is going through a constant evolution as time goes by.

Another great video! Can I ask which headset you are using? Thanks.

great content. where can I get one of those amg gt3 steering wheel

What filter or mods are you using on Assetto corsa to make the sun rays and lighting look like that? Looks like the nordschleife track but mine never looks as good as yours? Thanks

vr is definitely the best budget option, I bought my rift for £90 and its great. even if you do have to spend £200+ pounds on a new gpu its way cheaper than triple or ultrawide.

Great Video im just not sure if the extra energy cost in these days with the tripples will be worth it

I am very interested in starting simracing and started watching videos about gear bundles and everything, i think the r5 bundle is for me but i am not sure about the pedals that come with it, would i be better off only buying the r5 base/wheel and a different set of pedals? or is that bundle truly great enough on its own?

nice move like alvays , its moza is bether than fanatec ?? i drive on t300 and have the same times my friends driving on fanatec , what upgrade first pedals or weel drive ?? thank you for help .you pasion is incredible !!! cheers !!

Great video as per usual, however one bit of feedback. Do you always wear your racing gloves when messing with your hardware (5:33)? XD