Fanatec and Nissan Are Building an Officially Licensed Sim Racing Wheel
Corsair's Fanatec brand has signed a licensing deal with Nissan for a dedicated sim racing steering wheel — the automaker's first serious step into premium racing-sim hardware, with specifics still under wraps.
Fanatec, the sim racing hardware brand owned by Corsair, announced on July 7 a new licensing partnership with Nissan Motor Co. to develop officially licensed sim racing steering wheels drawing on the automaker's performance driving heritage. Neither company has shown the wheel itself yet — Fanatec says full specifications, pricing, and launch timing will follow later in 2026.
A new, exciting, licensed category extension for Nissan.
Yukika Sato, a senior manager at Nissan, called it "a new, exciting, licensed category extension" for the brand, while Fanatec VP and general manager Tobias Stelzer pointed to Nissan's built-in audience: "Nissan has a passionate global fan base." Corsair CEO Thi La framed the tie-up as "a natural fit for Fanatec and the sim racing community." It's notable framing for a brand that's had a starring role in racing games for decades — the Skyline GT-R has been a fixture of Gran Turismo since the franchise's earliest entries — without, until now, a dedicated licensed piece of sim hardware to go with it.
The deal slots into a lineup Fanatec has already built out with Porsche, BMW, McLaren, and Ford's WRC program: the Podium Porsche GT3 R wheel is built from the same CAD data as the real Porsche 911 GT3 Cup wheel, and the Podium BMW M4 GT3 wheel is functionally the same unit used in BMW's actual GT3 race car. Nissan becomes the newest brand in that group, and the first Japanese manufacturer to get a dedicated Fanatec wheel built around its own styling language rather than a third-party or generic design.
The announcement lands a little over two months after Fanatec's Spring Showcase, where the company unveiled the redesigned ClubSport Formula V3 wheel — a 290mm-diameter unit with a larger telemetry display — alongside a new universal Wheel Hub for mounting third-party wheels and a torque bump for its ClubSport DD and DD+ wheelbases. Whatever the Nissan wheel ends up looking like, it'll be built on top of hardware Fanatec has been actively revising all year rather than a static, years-old platform.
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