Asetek SimSports Forte Formula Steering Wheel

Asetek SimSports Forte Formula Steering Wheel

Inspired by real-life formula cars, the Asetek SimSports® Forte® Formula Steering Wheel has been thoroughly designed by racers and sim racers alike. The steering wheel has been designed and engineered to live up to the feeling of real-life racing at the same time as adopting sim racing feedback. With this and other feedback in mind, we started from ground up and a clean sheet of paper on a mission to create the best possible sim racing formula wheel, but like our other products, without breaking the bank. We are pleased to say that we achieved just that – please meet the Forte® Formula steering wheel!

Many wheels, sim racing or real-life racing, get their strength and rigidity from the front face plate and the handles, oftentimes in a closed construction (handlebars are in mechanical connection in both ends). Unfortunately, that also makes them locked in size and design. To achieve maximum stiffness and at the same time allowing you, the user, to easily change the handles, add clutches, DRS paddles. we use an injection molded chassis with a carbon, glass and plastic composite material providing a very high natural rigidity and strength and featuring a laser etched forged carbon exterior whilst not relying on the handlebars to provide strength and stiffness.

To add to the overall anti-flex and a proper interface to the removable handles, the chassis features a metal spider interface inside and altogether it yields a stiff, non-flexing steering wheel where the handles can be changed and or upgraded over time to help give you the steering wheel YOU want! For now, we have two different sizes, the default giving a perfect fit and grip for average size hands and an XL version for larger hands.

The ergonomic handles are made in a comfortable, soft and durable silicone rubber, that is easy to clean and disinfect and will give you ultimate comfort and control, regardless of whether you are wearing racing gloves or not. You will have the option to easily change the handles to quickly implement future upgrades to color, size, shape and hardness.

The front face of the wheel is made in a 2mm woven carbon plate providing a beautiful home for all the buttons and switches.

With 128 individual input options, the Asetek SimSports® Forte® Formula Steering Wheel will, through our RaceHub™ give you the option to customize and map all buttons, switches, encoders, and paddles you need to be on top of your game. Featuring 12 push buttons, two 2-way toggle switches and two 7-way kinky switches, three rotary encoders, and six thumb encoders, you are able to control all of your desired settings.

All buttons, switches and rotaries are of the highest quality standards and fully tested and validated in our automated button testing machines to ensure years and years of reliable daily use.

The Forte® wheel features no less than 49 fully customizable aRGB LEDs including rev and flag lights - allowing you to not only customize the look of your steering wheel, but also help you make those split-second decisions that can make the difference between success and failure. LEDs can, of course, be adjusted, dimmed, color customized and mapped in RaceHub, with many many more features to come.

WHEEL SPECS

• Exquisite, radical, and minimalistic Danish industrial design

• Made in Denmark

• 49 Total programmable aRGB LEDs

• 15 aRGB RevLED

• 6 aRGB FlagLED

• 12 Button aRGB LED

• 12 aRGB LEDs for backlit rotary switches

• 12 Push buttons, 2 two-way Toggle switches, 2 seven-way Kinky switches

• 3 twelve position Rotary encoders, 6 Thumb encoders

• 2 Contactless Magnetic shifter Paddles with additional optional paddles being upgradable

• Injection molded Carbon fiber reinforced composite chassis with laser etched forged carbon structure

• 2 mm woven carbon fiber front fac

• Possibility to change to XL handles at a later time

• Easy-to-use, no-play quick-release. Ensuring stable data and power transmission without the use of cables, batteries or wireless signals.

SOFTWARE FEATURES

• Full button, switch, encoder and paddle custom mapping

• Customizable Rev lights

• Pitlane control and Pit limiter

• Night mode

• Auto connection detection

• Clutch configuration