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01 For businesses running more than one rig
Commercial
sim racing
Speccing one sim rig is a hobby problem. Speccing twenty is a purchasing problem: they have to be identical, the order has to be right the first time, and somebody has to know which bay has the older pedals in it.
This is a free tool for that — build one rig, duplicate it across every bay, and calculate the whole room yourself, down to a parts list you can order from.
02 Calculate a room
Calculate it per bay
and multiply.
A complete bay — rig, screen and PC — configured from consumer parts and bought at retail, before furniture, flooring, fit-out and the lease.
| Spec | Per bay, complete | 4 bays | 8 bays | 13 bays |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Direct drive base, wheel and pedals in one bundle on a folding frame, a single 27-inch screen and a PC that will hold 1080p. What a pay-per-session bay can survive. |
£1,450£500 rig · £950 screen & PC | £5,800 | £11,600 | £18,850 |
| Standard Direct drive with a separate wheel and a three-pedal set on a cockpit. The sweet spot for most venues. |
£2,100£1,000 rig · £1,100 screen & PC | £8,400 | £16,800 | £27,300 |
| Load cell Load-cell braking — the upgrade that changes lap times and the one experienced customers notice — on a bigger screen. |
£2,750£1,500 rig · £1,250 screen & PC | £11,000 | £22,000 | £35,750 |
| Profile frame Aluminium profile and higher torque, stiff enough for competition and constant use, with a PC that will drive 1440p at a high refresh. |
£3,500£2,000 rig · £1,500 screen & PC | £14,000 | £28,000 | £45,500 |
Round numbers on purpose — a figure quoted to the penny for a room that does not exist yet is false precision. The rig part is what the rig builder prices exactly, from live retailer listings across 1157 rig parts and 97 brands, in pounds, euros or dollars. The screen and PC are estimates and are marked as such rather than folded into a total.
03 Turnkey, or configured yourself
Almost everyone selling into this market sells a finished simulator. Turnkey commercial units run from roughly £18,000 to £37,000 each, and the trade rule of thumb for a mid-range commercial rig sits around £2,200 to £3,700. The same bay configured from consumer parts is the table above.
That gap is real, and so is what you give up for it. A turnkey unit arrives assembled, on a commercial warranty, usually with a motion platform, and somebody else’s phone number when a bay goes down on a Saturday. Speccing it yourself means you own the integration: you choose the parts, you check they fit, you build them, and you carry the support. For a venue with someone technical on staff that is a straightforward trade and the numbers are not close. For one without, it is not.
What nobody publishes is the middle of it — the actual parts list, priced, with the fitment checked. That is what this tool is. Build a bay, then duplicate it across the room.
04 The mistakes that scale
Everything that goes wrong on one rig goes wrong on all of them at once, and the order is already placed by the time anyone notices. These are the three that cost real money:
Torque against the frame
A direct-drive base putting out more than the frame is rated to hold will flex under braking. On a home rig that is a disappointment; across a room it is a re-order of every frame you bought.
Quick-release families
Wheels and bases are brand-locked more often than not. Buying the wheels and the bases from different makers because each was the best price is how you end up needing twenty adapters nobody budgeted for.
Cockpits sold as universal
They are drilled for a fixed set of bolt patterns, and universal means the common three, not yours.
The builder holds a fitment profile for every product — quick-release family, torque, bolt pattern, mounting style, pedal plate, rig class — and checks a build against itself before anything is ordered. The fleet view runs that same check across every bay at once.
05 What the fleet view does
Duplicate a spec
Across any number of bays, so the room is identical by construction.
Track ordered against installed
So a part-built room is legible while it is being built.
Spot drift
The bay that got different pedals after a repair, before it becomes the bay customers avoid.
Check every bay at once
With the compatibility engine, rather than one at a time.
Export the costed list
Or an asset register, which is usually what finance asks for next.
06 Who this is for
Sim racing venues and arcades, esports arenas, simulator hire and event companies, karting centres adding an indoor offer, car dealerships fitting a showroom, universities and colleges running motorsport engineering courses, and corporate offices putting a rig in a breakout room. Anywhere the question is how many rather than which one.
07 Our own hardware, in quantity
The parts customers
notice and photograph.
We make the shift lights, gear indicators and marshal-flag displays that venues tend to want on every bay. They are made to order in the UK, so a fleet-sized run is a normal order rather than a special one.
08 Common questions