SimRacing Expo Frankfurt 2026: The Exhibitor List So Far
Somewhere around the middle of August, confirming a stand at SimRacing Expo Frankfurt stopped being news and became a roll call. A hardware brand announces it is coming, teases what will be on the table, and the next one does the same three days later. We wrote those up one at a time for a while. That was a mistake, and this is the fix: one running list of who is going to be in Hall 2 this October, what they say they are bringing, and the bit with actual stakes. We will keep it current as the names keep arriving.
The basics
SimRacing Expo Frankfurt runs 16–18 October 2026 in Hall 2 of the Frankfurt Messe, and tickets are on sale. Two things separate this year's show from a very large shop floor. There is a live stage with guest speakers running across the three days. And the venue hosts the in-person final of RENNSPORT's R1 esports competition, where teams race for a share of a €10,000 prize pool. More on that at the bottom.
The wheelbase aisle
This is where most of the roll call has come from, and you can tell a lot about where the money in this hobby sits by how long the list is.
Fanatec, MOZA and Trak Racer were confirmed before anyone else, and have been the names every later announcement measured itself against.
Asetek Racing turns up with a story attached. The Danish outfit was recently acquired by Suzhou Chunqiu Electronic Technology in a deal worth around $82 million, still with founder André Eriksen in charge, and the product it is bringing says more about the new owners' direction than the show slot does: the Initium DD10 wheelbase, with Xbox compatibility, a first for the brand, slated for a Q4 2026 release and therefore expected on the stand.
CONSPIT, the Shanghai maker of direct-drive bases, wheels, load-cell pedals and full rigs, is using Frankfurt to step into a category it has never touched: its first-ever shifter, the CHS, which switches between sequential and H-pattern and should retail for around $400. Its confirmation came alongside Cube Controls and Gomez Sim Industries.
Heusinkveld brings pedals people actually trust with their left foot, plus the bit they have been quietly building past pedals. Founded in 2013 by Niels Heusinkveld and Svend van der Vlugt, the company has the ergonomics-first One steering wheel and, more interestingly, DisplayDash: a button box that swaps the wall of unlabelled switches for mechanical controls paired with screens. Expect it next to the Sprint Sim Pedals, and possibly one more unreleased thing, going by an earlier tease at SimRacing Expo Charlotte.
Sim-Lab, the Dutch cockpit and direct-drive maker, brings its DDS TorqueSync bases in 26 Nm and 39 Nm, the SQ1 sequential shifter, the XB1 handbrake, the XP1 pedals, and the two licences that punch above a cockpit-maker's weight: an official Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 team wheel and a Porsche 911 RSR wheel.
VRS comes from the US with its DirectForce Pro range, the 20 Nm DFP20 base, the R295 rim and load-cell pedals, all set up to be driven rather than looked at. VRS is also a coaching and telemetry company built around iRacing, so the same table covers both ends of the conversation. It confirmed alongside Simucube and GT Omega.
Simagic, the Chinese direct-drive manufacturer, sells bases, wheels, pedals and shifters in more than 40 countries, tied together by its SimPro Manager software. Recent releases are the modular Zeus wheel range and the TB-Neo load-cell handbrake, and both are expected on the floor.
Nitro Concepts rounds out the hardware side with cockpits, chairs, desks and the accessories that go with them.
The software stands
RENNSPORT is back with a playable stand for the second year, and with more riding on it. Since last year's Expo the title has added the Endurance Classics and Touring Classics packs and a run of AI and visual updates. It is also holding a manufacturer reveal back for the show floor itself: no name yet, just the promise of one, alongside a development roadmap for the rest of the year.
RaceRoom Racing Experience has its own stand and is not going alone. It shares the floor with two siblings from the KW group, Ascher Racing (wheels) and Track Time (cockpits), so the sim sits next to the hardware it is meant to be driven on. Traxion, which reported the news, expects "a mix of the latest hardware and software" on the combined stand. RaceRoom has a DTM 2026 car pack and a new HUD behind it, with two more Super Touring cars teased for later this year.
Project Motor Racing is the third sim confirmed.
The ones you did not expect
Not everything on the list is a wheelbase or a sim.
Grid and Go, the iRacing setup shop, sells datapacks across the full sweep of cars and tracks, with telemetry tools powered by Garage 61. If you have bought a setup file in the top splits, there is a fair chance it was theirs.
Glenda Studio is the one most people will not recognise, which is unfair given the résumé: the Vietnam-based 3D studio builds vehicle models and environments for racing games, with credits on MotoGP, RIDE, Monster Energy Supercross and Hot Wheels Unleashed, and partnerships with Milestone, GIANTS Software, Virtuos and Project Motor Racing developer Straight4 Studios.
ADAC SimRacing is the esports arm of Germany's largest automobile club, running virtual championships under the German Motorsport Federation's own regulations.
Nürburgring eSports is a chain of sim centres across Germany and Switzerland: order food, grab a drink, strap into a Nordschleife-branded rig and run an in-house championship. It is the closest thing on the list to a community operator.
Thermaltake, the PC hardware manufacturer founded in Taiwan in 1999, has expanded from cases and cooling into gaming and sim racing kit. And SensitHaptics, from Potsdam, brings its Metahaptics seat, built to turn sim physics into multi-axis haptic feedback you feel rather than see.
The bit with actual stakes
The R1 final is what turns three days of hardware browsing into something to watch. Qualifying shootouts ran 21–23 August, four online rounds broadcast live come next, and the decider is played out in Frankfurt with €10,000 on the table.
What we will keep adding
At the current rate, packing all of this into three days looks like the real challenge. This list is updated as names come in, so if your favourite brand is missing, it is either not confirmed yet or we are a day behind. Tickets are on sale now.