The high-end segment was actually not existing at all.” Endor AG and Fanatec CEO Thomas Jackermeier. I was missing totally missing any feeling of luxury, like leather or metal. “Back then there were a lot of cheap plastic toys. “When you invent a new technology, even if it’s something mechanically basic like a spring replacing a rubber band, then it’s always a new challenge to overcome. “So, we said ‘okay, let’s try a metal spring.’
“The steering wheels back then were with the rubber band, and the feeling was not good at all,” explains Jackermeier during a Fanatec anniversary presentation held during the 24 Hours of Spa – the sound of GT3s cars reverberating around the sim racing arena holding the event. It was only a year later when Endor AG CEO Thomas Jackermeier decided to chase the likes of Mad Catz in the steering wheel market. Fanatec HELLFIRE Joystick and F-22 TWISTER Joystick, 1997.
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During that formative first year, it instead produced two joysticks – the HELLFIRE and the F-22 TWISTER – alongside a Gamecommander Multiport, that allowed you to have several PC gaming items connected at once, and the AGGRESSOR Profi Gameboard. Its first ever steering wheel for gaming was the Le Mans in 1998, a year after the company first produced gaming accessories.įanatec’s nascent stages weren’t to do with driving, as it turns out. While it has licencing agreements with the likes of BMW, Porsche, the World Rally Championship, NASCAR, Formula 1 and Gran Turismo, it’s taken a quarter of a century to reach the peak of its powers. German sim racing peripheral manufacturer Fanatec is 25 years old in 2022, having come to fruition way back in 1997.
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