Corsair Just Bought Trak Racer — Fanatec Now Sells the Whole Rig, Motorcycle Sim Included

Corsair announced on August 5 that it has acquired all the assets of Trak Racer, the Melbourne-based manufacturer of racing and flight-simulation cockpits, frames, seats, monitor stands and motion systems. The brand now sits alongside Fanatec inside Corsair's simulation portfolio. No purchase price was disclosed. Founder Matt Sten, who started Trak Racer in 2008, joins Corsair as chief technology officer for SIM solutions.

Joining Corsair and Fanatec gives Trak Racer the platform to reach far more SIM enthusiasts faster than we could on our own.

The logic is the part of the sim racing market Fanatec never covered. Fanatec builds electronics — wheelbases, steering wheels, pedals, shifters and the software behind them — and Trak Racer builds the thing all of that bolts to: aluminium-profile and tubular cockpits, racing seats, display and peripheral mounts, motion and haptic systems, and turnkey rigs. Corsair framed the deal as a way to sell a complete setup rather than the half of it that plugs in. "Trak Racer meaningfully expands Fanatec's sim racing ecosystem, bringing an extensive SIM cockpit and accessories product portfolio, and a strong direct-to-consumer revenue mix that we believe will scale well across our global distribution network," Corsair CEO Thi La said in the announcement.

Sten's framing was about reach. "Joining Corsair and Fanatec gives Trak Racer the platform to reach far more SIM enthusiasts faster than we could on our own," he said. "Corsair's global distribution and retail infrastructure, paired with Fanatec's engineering strength and product portfolio, will let us bring Trak Racer products to a much larger audience while staying true to the community that helped built this brand." Trak Racer has sold largely direct to consumers; Corsair's retail and distribution network is the obvious upgrade, and the fact that the founder stays on as a Corsair executive is a meaningfully different opening than the 2024 Fanatec deal, which came out of Endor AG's insolvency proceedings in Landshut and closed as an asset purchase that September, with Endor itself liquidated and delisted.

What Corsair bought isn't only tooling and inventory. Trak Racer holds a Mattel licence covering co-branded Hot Wheels and Matchbox sim racing products slated to launch in 2027, and a Porsche licensing arrangement that Corsair describes as extending beyond a single cockpit into a broader ecosystem of Porsche-branded simulation hardware. On the motorsport side, Trak Racer has been an official partner of the BWT Alpine Formula One team since 2020 — the two co-developed the Alpine Racing TRX commercial simulator — and separately sells a co-branded cockpit with the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One team. Fanatec already runs licensed wheels with Porsche, BMW, McLaren and Ford; the overlap with Porsche now spans both halves of the rig.

The acquisition also drops Corsair into two categories it wasn't in at all. The TR550 Flight Simulator gives it a flight-sim product line. And the TRZ, revealed at SimRacing Expo Charlotte over Memorial Day weekend in May, is a full-size motorcycle simulator built for home use — a fully passive mechanical design with no motors in the base model, developed with the RevZED Project. It runs a dual-input steering system that reads both lean and handlebar input, including counter-steering, with a maximum lean angle around 40 degrees, weighs roughly 55kg, and lists compatibility with MotoGP 23 through 26, the Ride series, GP Bikes, TT Isle of Man and RiMS Racing. It is priced at $1,999 / €1,999 / £1,999 before shipping and tax, with pre-order deliveries expected around mid-to-late October — undercutting the six-figure motion motorcycle rigs that have historically been the only way to do this properly.

That last piece is the one worth watching. A $2,000 motorcycle simulator is a genuinely new price point for the category, and Trak Racer has already said force feedback is its top post-launch priority, with haptics, wind simulation and motion planned as add-ons. Corsair now owns it, along with the cockpit under every other kind of sim rig it sells. Whether that turns into a tidier one-brand purchase for buyers or just a bigger catalogue with the same shipping headaches is the open question, but for the first time since the Fanatec deal closed, Corsair's sim business is no longer just the parts you hold onto.