MOZA Racing Is Now an Official Hardware Partner of the Gran Turismo World Series — and Building a GT7 Wheel
The sim racing brand's biggest product drop yet — a $2,999 motion rig, a 16 Nm direct drive wheelbase, and more — landed the same day Polyphony Digital named it an official peripheral partner, with a native PlayStation wheel controller now in development.
MOZA Racing had its biggest single-day product launch to date on July 28, spanning racing, flight, and even farming simulation hardware — and the same day, Polyphony Digital named the Shenzhen-based brand an official peripheral partner of the Gran Turismo World Series, the console franchise's top esports championship. The partnership includes development of a Gran Turismo-branded steering wheel controller with native support in Gran Turismo 7, MOZA's first move toward officially licensed PlayStation hardware.
With MOZA now joining us as a partner I'm excited to see the expanded possibilities to develop a steering wheel that is optimal in the eyes of Gran Turismo.
The hardware side of the launch was substantial on its own. The MOZA HMA150 is the company's first full cockpit motion system, a four-actuator rig priced at $2,999 with 150mm of travel, speeds up to 300mm/s, acceleration exceeding 1G, and a 350kg payload limit. Alongside it, MOZA introduced the R16 Ultra direct drive wheelbase (16 Nm of torque, a 21-bit magnetic encoder, $529) and the entry-level R5 Pro bundle ($399, pairing a 6 Nm base with MOZA's ES Lite wheel and SRP Lite2 pedals) — plus new software including an AI Coach feature that compares a driver's steering, throttle, braking, and racing line against reference laps.
"At MOZA Racing, our mission has always been to make professional-grade sim racing more accessible while continually pushing the boundaries of performance and immersion," said MOZA Racing founder and CEO Chenyong Guan. Gran Turismo series producer Kazunori Yamauchi framed the tie-up as a continuation of a two-decade project: "The evolution of consumer level force feedback steering that started from Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec is still ongoing, but with MOZA now joining us as a partner I'm excited to see the expanded possibilities to develop a steering wheel that is optimal in the eyes of Gran Turismo."
MOZA's GT World Series branding starts with Round 2 of the 2026 season, premiering August 15, with a PlayStation-native wheel controller to follow at an unspecified date — Polyphony says more details are coming in the months ahead. It's a notable expansion for a brand founded in 2012 that's spent recent years building out PC-focused direct drive hardware; landing inside Sony's own esports pipeline, on the console franchise most responsible for putting force feedback wheels in living rooms in the first place, is a different tier of validation than another wheelbase spec sheet.
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