Next Level Racing F1 GT Formula 1 and GT Simulator Cockpit

Quick take: Nice for single monitor set up. If you have three monitors and use their monitor stand accessory, not recommended as the monitor stand accessory isn't built well enough to line up the three monitors correctly.I set mine up in an F1 configuration (sitting horizontally rather than more straight up). The rig is very solid (and heavy, it is made of steel/iron rather than lighter weight aluminum). I used Fanatec wheel base, pedals and shifter.The wheel platform works well, but I did have to drill holes for the Fanatec 2.5 wheel base since I didn't use the Fanatec adapter plate (in an F1 config, you don't want/need the angled adapter plate). Drilling holes is pretty easy, doesn't take long.The pedal base just barely fit the Fanatec pedals in the F1 config, but the screws ended up being nice and tight. The pedal platform could be stiffer however. When using a load cell brake, the platform flexes a little bit. Not badly, and doesn't seem to impact things, but it would have been nice if there was less flex.In the F1 config, there is no good place to mount the shifter plate since it would be too far forward. So I drilled two holes into the frame that holds the seat and bolted the shifter plate directly onto the frame near the seat. The Fanatec shifter then just bolts onto the shifter platform without any problems. This is a bit more involved in that you are drilling through thicker metal and you have to drill through two sides of a square tube. But it isn't that bad if you have a half decent drill.The seat is serviceable. It isn't going to win any comfort awards, but works if you don't need an especially comfortable seat. The seat does move frontwards and backwards with a standard seat adjust lever. There are three back tilt settings which needs a hex wrench to change.The rig is very customizable in that you can mount different parts on different areas. But once you do that, you aren't going to move it around easily. So, it'll take a bit of testing to find what works for you before you button it up.The rig looks very nice with the red and black color scheme. I do like the rig for the price, with the only major negative caveat is that I did not like the monitor stand accessory if you use three screens (very difficult to line up three screens correctly in all three degrees of freedom). I used a three monitor setup with three 27" 2560x1440 monitors. Frankly If I had to do it over again, I think I might go with a single bigger 4K monitor, maybe curved (3840 x 2160 instead of my 7680x1440).

Let me preface this by saying I do like this cockpit a lot. It’s comfortable, adjustable, and serves its purpose well. But with that being said, this cockpit was a total pain in the ass to build. Especially by myself. It may be easier with another person, but it’s definitelt annoying and time consuming on your own. My biggest complaint is that the holes on the side of the seat to screw bolts in were all sideways. Because of this, the hinge has a weird big gap where one bolt has to go through both pieces of the hinge and then into the seat. It just looks bad and seems unsafe. The other complaint is the arms that hold up the steering wheel were slightly too small to fit onto the frame so I had to force them on which was a pain. That makes it damn near impossible for me to adjust how close the wheel is to me. One other thing, the directions take you through a weird order of putting things together that makes stuff more difficult, at least for me. I’d advise thinking through everything first and changing the order a little bit, it will prolly make it easier, since following the directions perfectly felt like a disaster for me. Also, changing from gt to f1 or vice versa takes way too long. First time for me it took almost an hour and a half. Second time was a little under an hour. That doesn’t seem very worth it to me when I normally only play gt. But I’m that might be just me.TL;DRPros: comfy Sturdy AdjustableCons: pain to assemble Adjusting wheel table position is a pain Changing from gt to f1 or vice versa takes like 30 minutes to an hour, which to me isn’t worth itOrder in directions seems to make things more difficultScrew holes were wonky (at least on mine)

Exceptional Customer Service.My seat came with a clear cut. Watch attached video. I call Next Level Racing because Amazon said my only option was to have them send a while cockpit so I would take whatever part I needed and then send back the rest with the damaged part. We are talking about a 100 pounds box, so I didn’t want to go that route and contacted Next Level Racing.They responded immediately. Like a few after a few hours and asked me to send a picture of the seat. Then they asked for a shipping address to send me a whole seat!! That was unnecessary, and unexpected, a quality of exceptional service.On top of that, they sent a very nice rug that I was thinking about buying!Absolutely exceptional service. It is great to know you are buying products for a company that will put customers first, and who are ready to cover you when there is something wrong.About the cockpit.It is awesome. It is great in F1 position and very very good in GT position.I am 6’3” and 298 pounds and that is no problem for the seat or cockpit. My uncle is 6’6” and in GT position he was very comfortable and didn’t have any issues seating or standing from the seat.In the video I mention a review from one sim racing channel and website that shows the wheel base moving and being wobbly. I attribute that wobblyness to faults when assembling the cockpit because the base, specially the base is absolutely firm and sturdy. The pedals plate as you can see I. The video moves just a little bit, and it’s something that you simply don’t notice and driving and pushing the brakes. I currently don’t have and haven’t tried the cockpit with load cell brakes, but being a big heavy guy I think if the plate were wobbly or weak I would’ve noticed it. The opposite is tru, the pedal plate is very very strong and heavy.There is a review saying you need extra washers, but this was notMy case. I have a lot of them spare and that was the case for the GT position, which requires a few more bolts than the F1 position.If you have 500USD, I don’t think there are better alternatives than this one.If you say you don’t like F1 all that much, I strongly suggest you try this cockpit. A couple night ago I played my first F1 race in Project Cars 2 in VR, and Inwent nuts. If you love cars and racing It’s something that you need to try. I was so impressed by the feeling that I signed up in iRacing just to get to the F1 league, because the feeling of being there, you body matching that position, it is amazing. Words cannot describe it.VR (oculus rift) + Project cars 2 + NextLevelRacing F1GT = bliss.The cockpit is not perfect but buying fromAmazon and with Next Level racing customer service, you simply cannot go wrong.I don’t see myself needing another cockpit in a very long time, but if I ever need another one, it will definitely be a Next Level Racing one.A+.EDit:I have been trying to upload the video because I was responding or showing that some of the alledged weaknesses ISRTV showed in their review were not precise.Those are:1.-The wheel base plate is not wobbly at all. There is a part in their review when they move the plate so easily. It seems to me they didnt tighten the bolts enough because if I try to move my wheel plate, the whole cockpit moves before there is any movement in the wheel. This thing is extremely sturdy but it will be as sturtdy as the strength of the builder or the person who assembles it.2.- The pedal plates moves: it does move a bit, but not as much as you can see in their video. Again, I think the person who did the assembly just didnt apply enough force to the bolts. The plate, specially in the F1 position is extremely stable. I havent used any loadcell pedals but being an almost 300 pounds 6'3" person, I know I am applying a lot of force and in my feet i cant perceive any movement when driving.Two Cons I have found:1.- Lack of cable management. For the price, including some channels of something that you can use to hide cables is not something prohibitive. I bet they will do it in the future.2.- The seat "seats" at the structure of the cockpit with no bolts holding it in place. I dont know how to explain it and that is why I made a video, but the thing is not going anywhere, because the two parts where the seat goes are attached to the cockpit with several very strong bolts. The thing is the actual point of contact between the seat and the frames are 4 screws that just enter into the piece of the cockpit that holds it, without anything fixing it. That cause the seat to move a little bit more than necessary. This "wobblyness" of the seat does not translate into something that affects your driving. Not at all. You cannot feel it for the most part, but a real seat in a car just doesnt move as much, and I think it just makes the cockpit look (notice I said look and not feel) as a top notch product. For me having worked quality and some manufacturing, I would classify this a complementary (in a critical-important-complementary scale), but it is a design flaw that I think could lead to prospective customer to think the product is inferior to what it is (value signal, this is important).Again, overall I am extremely satisfied and ran writing all this because I want to race a couple hours before sleep. Great idea and very nice implementation.Keep up the good work!!PD: I shot the video with the iphone 7 plus at max resolution and the thing is almost 2GB. That is the issue I am having. If you want to see just let me know in the comments and I will post it.

TL;DRCan't go wrong with this rig for this price. Absolutely worth the money.I will begin with that although some reviewers on YouTube and on Amazon gave me doubts that this rig would not be rock solid due to their statements that some parts wobble or are loose. It's as simple as that - APPLY MORE FORCE when you tighten up bolts and nothing will move or wobble or vibrate or shake as this rig is 100 lbs.Now to what's good about this rig. It's fairly comfortable despite what some other reviews say. I like how the seat is not too soft but also not too firm. The adjust-ability to perfect driving position is very good and I feel super comfortable in this seat (I'm 6.1'). The gear I'm using is Fanatec CSW v2.5 wheelbase and Fanatec ClubSport v3 pedals with brake performance kit (very hard brakes).Assembling this rig was fairly simple. For the most of the part I didn't even need any instructions. It's straight forward. However, be aware that you will require to apply some strength on some parts and tighten up those bolts really hard. The most difficult part was to attach the wheel stand frame - had to apply a lot of force in order to make the holes align but once it was done the wheel stand is just rock solid. I'm pretty confident that this rig can even handle a Direct Drive wheel.The only con perhaps is that I'd like NextLevel Racing to add some cable management solution. Perhaps add some sort of tube for the cables from wheelbase.

Je commandé de produit pour jouer à des jeux vidéo de type F1 2018, FORZA MOTOR et PROJECT CAR. Le cockpit répond à mes attentes. Après 2h de montage seul, j'ai pu améliorer mais chronos. Pour l'instant il a l'air solide, quelques grincement mais ça devrait aller.Après 5 ans d'utilisation, l'état est toujours impeccable, vraiment rien a dire, il est vraiment très solide et donc très fiable ! Cependant je l'ai revendu car il est toutefois encombrant dans un salon, une pièce dédiée est recommandé. J'ai également ajouté des roulettes autobloquantes vendues par par Next Level Racing pour le déplacer plus facilement.

到着後、数時間組み立てを試みましたが、結局断念。金属ドリル、トリマーその他がないと完成しません。工場で仮組みをしていないんでしょうね。ご購入の方は、組み立てサービスをお願いした方が良いです。

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Good build quality, 2 minor things I had to deal with,First, two holes on the right are not really aligned, I have a hard time putting screws through them so the seat is moving a tiny bit when applying brake (I have a really hard brake pedal)Second is the way you have no idea where to approximately screw everything on depending on drivers height, quite a lot of fiddling to do to get the perfect fit! Not a deal breaker at all but a bit annoying!Super solid even with a direct drive wheel, would recommend!