Corsair has bought Trak Racer, adding the Australian rig maker to a portfolio that already includes Fanatec.

The details are thin so far: Trak Racer, which builds and distributes sim racing cockpits and stands out of Australia, is now part of Corsair’s hardware group, sitting alongside Fanatec on the simulation side of the business. Corsair picked up Fanatec in 2024 after the German wheel maker’s financial troubles, so this is the second sim racing brand it has absorbed in roughly two years.

Why it matters: the two brands slot together almost too neatly. Fanatec sells wheels, bases and pedals but has never had a serious rig lineup beyond a handful of stands. Trak Racer sells rigs and almost nothing else. On paper, Corsair now covers the full stack — cockpit, mounting hardware, and the wheel bolted to it — which is the position Sim-Lab, Simucube and Asetek have each been circling from different directions.

The honest caveat is that consolidation cuts both ways. A bigger parent means better supply chain stability and, ideally, an end to the kind of stock and support chaos Fanatec customers dealt with before and during the Corsair takeover. It can also mean thinner product lines, fewer weird niche SKUs, and pricing that drifts upward once a segment has fewer independent players in it. Trak Racer has generally been one of the better value options in aluminium profile rigs, and that positioning is exactly the sort of thing that tends to get “optimised” post-acquisition.

Nothing has been said about changes to Trak Racer’s existing products, pricing or regional distribution, and Corsair has so far run Fanatec as a distinct brand rather than folding it into the Corsair name. Expect the same here, at least initially. Whether the two lines actually integrate — shared mounting standards, bundled rig-and-wheel deals — is the thing worth watching over the next year.

Originally reported by Traxion.