Corsair has bought Trak Racer, placing the Australian cockpit manufacturer alongside Fanatec. The founder joins as CTO, Hot Wheels and Porsche licensing come with it, and Corsair now owns most of a sim rig.
Corsair Gaming announced on 5 August 2026 that it has acquired all the assets of Trak Racer, the Melbourne-based manufacturer of racing and flight simulation cockpits, frames, seats, monitor stands, motion systems and accessories. The company joins Fanatec inside Corsair’s growing simulation portfolio.
No purchase price was disclosed.
Trak Racer was founded in 2008 by Matt Sten and built its reputation on aluminium profile and tubular cockpits spanning entry level to professional, along with racing seats and licensed co-branded peripherals. Its signature TRX cockpit converts between a formula seating position and an upright GT orientation without tools.
The founder is staying, and moving up
The detail that matters most for anyone worried about what happens to the brand: Matt Sten has joined Corsair as Chief Technology Officer for SIM Solutions.
That is a considerably better outcome than the last time Corsair moved in this market. When it acquired Endor AG, Fanatec’s parent, in 2024, the German company was heavily in debt and founder Thomas Jackermeier was ultimately excluded from the deal after a long and contentious process. The community reaction was correspondingly cold.
In Sten’s own words, joining Corsair and Fanatec gives Trak Racer a platform to reach far more simulation enthusiasts faster than it could alone, and he framed the intention as bringing the products to a much larger audience while staying true to the community that helped build the brand.
Whether that survives contact with a Nasdaq-listed parent is the open question, but starting with the founder in the chief technology seat is a different starting point entirely.
How Corsair is dividing the two brands
The press release is unusually explicit about the split, which suggests it has been thought through rather than improvised.
Fanatec owns the electronics. Wheelbases, steering wheels, pedals, shifters and the software layer for PC and consoles.
Trak Racer owns the physical simulator. Aluminium profile and tubular cockpits, seats, display mounts, peripheral mounts, motion and haptic systems, and turnkey racing and flight simulators.
Corsair describes the two as approaching the simulation market from complementary positions, with the combined portfolio expected to support integrated bundles, simplify configuration and purchasing, and increase the attachment rate of cockpits, controls, displays, gaming PCs and accessories.
Read that last clause carefully, because it is the commercial logic in plain sight. Corsair already sells you the monitor, the PC and the peripherals. Now it wants to sell you the frame those things bolt to.
What it does not say is what happens to Fanatec’s existing cockpit range, or to Trak Racer’s own electronics ambitions. Trak Racer has shown prototype wheel bases in the past and has an Alpine Formula 1 wheel in development. Both of those now sit awkwardly across a line Corsair has just drawn.
What Corsair actually bought beyond the cockpits
The licensing pipeline is arguably worth more than the current product range, and it is the part most coverage will skip.
- Mattel. A licensing relationship covering the Hot Wheels and Matchbox brands, with co-branded sim racing products planned to launch from 2027. That is a route into a mainstream, family-facing audience that neither Corsair nor Fanatec has ever had.
- Porsche. An expanded, multi-product arrangement that extends the relationship from a single co-branded cockpit into a broader ecosystem of Porsche-branded simulation hardware.
- BWT Alpine Formula One Team. An official partnership running since 2020.
- Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team. A separately introduced co-branded simulator cockpit.
Both Fanatec and Trak Racer already had long-standing relationships with leading Formula 1 teams. Consolidating them under one roof gives Corsair a motorsport licensing position that no competitor currently matches.
The flight simulation play
This is the strategic move that has nothing to do with sim racing, and it is the reason the deal is bigger than it first appears.
Corsair explicitly frames the acquisition as expanding its serviceable market beyond sim racing into flight simulation, using Trak Racer’s TR550 Flight Simulator as an established foundation. The argument is that the underlying competencies transfer directly: precision controls, structural rigidity, ergonomics, displays, PCs, software, VR, motion and haptics.
Flight simulation is a large, wealthy and notoriously underserved hardware market. Corsair has just bought a foothold in it without building anything.
Motorcycles, and a collision course
The other new category is two wheels, and the timing here is remarkable.
Trak Racer recently introduced the TRZ, described in the announcement as believed to be the first mass-produced, mainstream-priced full-size motion motorcycle simulator. It debuted to strong reception at the 2026 Sim Racing Expo in Charlotte and Corsair expects it to open a new product category for the combined company.
Now hold that thought for three weeks. MOZA is understood to be taking hardware related to its MotoGP partnership to Gamescom, which runs from 26 to 30 August. We laid out what to expect in our Gamescom 2026 preview.
Motorcycle simulation went from a curiosity to a contested category in about ten weeks, and the two companies fighting over it are the two largest hardware makers in sim racing. That is not a coincidence, and it is worth watching more closely than the cockpit consolidation.
What it means for buyers
Realistically, nothing changes this quarter. Asset acquisitions take time to integrate and Corsair’s own forward-looking language refers to its ability to close and integrate the transaction, so treat announced synergies as intentions rather than facts.
Over the next year, three things look likely.
- Bundles. Corsair says most of Trak Racer’s sales are direct to consumer, and that its own global retail and distribution network is the growth lever. Expect cockpit and wheelbase packages sold as single SKUs, probably at a discount to buying separately. If you were planning to build a rig piece by piece, waiting could genuinely save money.
- Wider availability. Trak Racer has historically been harder to buy in some markets than its European competitors. Corsair’s distribution fixes that faster than anything else in this deal.
- Range rationalisation. Two overlapping cockpit lines under one owner rarely both survive intact. If there is a specific Fanatec or Trak Racer cockpit you want, buying it sooner carries less risk than buying it later.
The bigger picture
Corsair now owns Fanatec, Trak Racer, Elgato, SCUF Gaming and ORIGIN PC. In sim racing specifically, that means one Nasdaq-listed company can supply the wheelbase, the wheel, the pedals, the shifter, the software, the cockpit, the seat, the monitor mounts, the monitors, the PC and the streaming equipment.
That is good for anyone who wants one invoice and one support line. It is less obviously good for a hobby whose character was shaped by small independent manufacturers arguing with each other in public.
Worth remembering how the Fanatec chapter has gone since 2024. We covered the price increases that followed, and more recently the brand has been active again with a Nissan licensing partnership and a confirmed continued role in the Gran Turismo World Series. Corsair ownership stabilised a company that was financially failing. Whether it also preserved what people liked about it is a question the community is still arguing over two years later.
Trak Racer arrives in better health and with its founder in the room. That is a meaningfully different set of starting conditions.
Official sources
The full announcement is availableoduct information is available from Trak Racer
See you on the track!
