Take a seat and drive as fast as possible in the Playseat® Evolution PRO - Red Bull Racing Esports! When you're racing with this Playseat® chair, it feels like your in a real Red Bull racing car, thanks to the authentic shape and the high quality ActiFit upholstery. ActifFit has a breathable mesh design, giving you ultimate comfort. Even during those long racing sessions! The Playseat® Evolution PRO - Red Bull Racing Esports is very comfortable, stable and highly adjustable, to ensure the most fun racing experience at home! It can be used by adults and children, so all your friends and family members can enjoy this chair. Thanks to its unique foldable design, it uses little space when not in use. Compatible with all steering wheels and pedal sets on the market, including Logitech, Thrustmaster and Fanatec

But we have to include it in this guide, to show you just what the professionals are using in their own sim racing setups. The inside of this racing seat is covered in padding to give you a comfortable sim racing experience even after hours behind the wheel. The padding wraps up the side of the racing seat to cacoon you in, giving you an immersive sim racing experience. When you mount this seat using the bottom mounting point at the front, and top mounting point at the rear, the seat will ahve a pretty extreme incline.

Both the wheel plate and the pedal plate come pre-drilled to ensure compatibility with all major steering wheel and pedals such as those from Fanatec, Thrustmaster, Logitech and more. When paired with either the X1 Carbon seat or the Sparco GP seat, this sim rig allows you to have a fully reclined seating position. The rest of the chassis is laser cut from carbon steel to ensure rigidity when using high-performing racing wheels and sim racing pedals.

At the end of the sim rig, the pedal mounting solution doesn’t feature a traditional pedal plate. Instead, Treq has opted for using various strips of aluminium profile to give you greater control over how you mount your sim racing pedals. It’s not ideal, or attractive. In the standard Playseat it really is neat how it all goes down the steering column. That hidden method would be difficult to replicate here unfortunately.

On the side there are a series of different mounting points. Most racing seats include a single mounting point allowing for limited customisation. However, the ES1 seat features multiple mounting holes. Fanatec has just celebrated their 25th anniversary, making them an incredibly established brand within sim racing. They offer a range of wheel bases from the lower-powered CSL DD, through to the high-performing Podium DD2. Often the trade-off of being able to attach almost any peripheral to an 8020 rig outweighs the aesthetics and design of the rig itself. Next Level Racing F-GT Elite One of the additional benefits of this sim rig over the previous Playseat sim rig is additional adjustability. You can change the driving position much more on the Formula Intelligence allowing you to replicate the driving position from various motorsport series.