SimRacing Expo

What were your top three? Top three products, top three stands, top three surprises.

What were your top three on these three days of SimRacing Expo? um so yeah robin you first no no you go

okay yeah

i thought that i was like going into with a negative bias into certain motion rigs then coming out of it like completely convinced otherwise wow

we did that a couple of years ago um directly from from the the show not the show floor because it was too loud but we did that in dortmund But the logistics were a little bit too complex.

Getting enough microphones, having a couple of cameras set up or set around.

Like, that's the moment where I decided, no, let's not make the podcast during the SimRacing Expo because there's...

If I had a team, like, I don't know.

My name is John.

Unfortunately, Tom Harrison-Lorde, after what was a monster shift at the Sim Racing Expo, has caught the Sim Racing Expo bug and is basically on his deathbed.

He sounded absolutely appalling this morning, so what we thought was going to be a reunion of the original Double Tom and John trio...

And very sadly, we've had to replace Tom Harrison-Lorde with our Dunfermline Athletic substitute, Ross McGregor.

I think it's maybe an overused phrase to say that it's shown that the sim racing industry is maturing.

Or maybe I just spent too much time on LinkedIn because there was a lot of that.

It kind of does show that the Sim Racing Expo is maturing.

The number of brands, the breadth of brands, the breadth of the ranges on each stand.

Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

Right, we are at the 2026 Sim Racing Expo Frankfurt.

We've got Jean-Francois Chardon from KW Studios.

Correct.

Do you want the back story of how it got to? Thomas Janssen is our force feedback expert.

He redid the force feedback the first time around.

I was here for the Simracing Expo last time with him to talk about the brand new force feedback in the race room.

But recently, he was digging in that code again, and he said, I think I found a mistake in the calculations for the gyro effect.

Still having a bit of a cold.

In Frankfurt, Germany, from 16th to 18th, there is the Sim Racing Expo.

Let's explain what sim racing

is.