Naturally, you have to pare way back for a home setup. It’s the nearest thing you’ll find to a real race car, per your butt-dyno.
Professional drivers and teams use hydraulic platform rigs capable of generating up to 2 Gs, like the multi-million dollar Dallara units in Indianapolis and Italy (to the tune of $12,000 per daily rental). The goal with any racing sim is realism and the hardest thing to simulate is the sensation of torque and G-forces. Those opportunities are few and far between now, so the closest analog is a simulator setup. I skirted the lack of means, for a while working as an automotive journalist in the Before Times afforded ample seat time in often unobtainable cars at iconic race tracks around the world. While racing is arguably the only sport in which an abundance of the former can help overcome the lack of the latter - many race series require amateur “gentleman” drivers with endless coffers willing to bankroll a season - an imminent financial windfall is unlikely. Despite my deep passion and ambition, two things preclude me from becoming a race car driver: a pile of money and innate talent.
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