When I started out and got my first iRacing account, my setup was a laptop with quite modest specs, wired headphones and a set of Logitech G29 wheel and pedals. I sat on the couch with the laptop behind the wheel, with the pedal box on the floor. The pedal box kept slipping when I pushed the brake pedal, so the first mod was a plank behind the box to fix it. No FOV calculations, I could see what the laptop screen allowed (not much) and it was of course too far away. I sat at the edge of the couch, not very comfortable, so 12 minute MX-5 races were just about survivable. I did not do well.
Things have gradually progressed. In order to both enjoy the simulation and do reasonably well in races, a dedicated rig is much to be preferred. This is my current setup:
- Aluminium frame solid rig from Motedis
- Separate triple screen stand also from Motedis
- Second hand real racing seat (FIA approved!) from Sparco
- Simucube 2 Pro wheel base
- Ascher Racing F64 wheel for Simucube wireless
- Heusinkveld Sprint pedals
- Triple 32 inch screens with 2560 x 1440 resolution
- Elgato StreamDeck button box
- 5" Vocore 480 dash from SimDash running JRT’s dash and a custom LED profile
- PC with
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU
- 32 GB RAM
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070Ti GPU
- Liquid CPU cooling
- Cabled mouse, keyboard and headset with mic
This runs iRacing at reasonable frame rates even with rain and full multiclass grids. It seems that iRacing is CPU limited, even with the multithreading they introduced in 2026.
I am happy with all aspects of the current setup. None of the key components have given any issues. In particular I am impressed with the Simucube wheel base which has been running for five years of quite extensive use without any issues at all.
To assist when I am racing I use iOverlay, JRT and SimHub, all as paid versions. The only open source software I use is CrewChief.
For telemetry analysis I use VRS, and also their setups.
When I stream, OBS Studio is used for capturing the content, which is stored locally and also sent to Owncast on a different box. A reverse proxy on a third box is used to relay the stream to the outside world.