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Duncan Robertson

9 September 2025

Turtle Beach is back on track with its second sim racing wheel and pedal set

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The best value for money in any sim racing setup comes from modular racing wheel bases. These are the nerve centre of any wheel, pedal, and gear shifter bundle, and modular ones allow you to attach more than one wheel to them, giving you better scope to specialize in an area of racing you like best. Essentially, they’re the thing you’re really paying money for when you buy one of the best PC racing wheels. But boy, do you usually have to pay money for them.

Modular setups from the likes of Logitech G can cost you within the region of $1,000, and if you start to look at the even more specialist brands, prices go even higher. Turtle Beach, which is still a relatively new team in the sim racing world, is launching a new modular setup today, which only costs $449 / £329 – an alluring price point versus the competition.

Turtle Beach VelocityOne KD3 | $449 at Amazon
For a more affordable modular setup, you get Direct Drive, Force Feedback, 2,160 degrees of rotation, a race management display, and access to the VelocityOne Tuner companion app. That’s not a bad suite of features for something under $500. You are more limited on torque, though…
UK: £329 at Turtle Beach

The racing sim market seems to be heating up at the moment, but Turtle Beach is filling a gap in the market in terms of price. Thrustmaster’s latest offering avoids a modular design entirely; instead, it’s doubling down on a more affordable flagship. The new Nacon Revosim Pure Bundle offers the same modularity with more power, but it’s a few steps up on the pricing ladder. Moza’s R3 bundle is the only modular build I know that comes close to what Thrustmaster is launching today.

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Turtle Beach might be going for a ballsy undercut here, but based on its first racing wheel, the Turtle Beach Velocity One Race, it has a fair bit to prove. Although the brand’s first crack at sim racing had some great specs, it wasn’t received all too well on the whole, and the unreliable compatibility and force feedback led us to bring it into the pit stop instead of allowing it to join the grand prix of best Xbox steering wheels.

The new Velocity One KD 3 is a more affordable, scaled-back option. It only offers 3.2Nm of peak torque compared to 7.2Nm in the Velocity One Race. That’s understandable, seeing as it has a much smaller (and less bulky) form factor in its wheel base. The pedals are customizable though, with a Hall effect throttle and brake. Disappointingly, there’s no room for a clutch, which does limit things slightly.

VelocityOneâ„¢ KD3 Trailer (Wheel & Pedal Racing System) – YouTube

Thankfully, a modular build isn’t going to waste, because there’s already an F-RX wheel available separately, which looks more like a track-specific option, similar to the one found in the Logitech G RS Wheel Hub range.
It’s definitely shaping up to be an interesting mid-range race in the wheel and pedal market right now. Thrustmaster’s T248R isn’t modular, but it does have a similar price point for PlayStation and PC players and offers more torque. The new KD 3 is available only for Xbox and PC, but if you’re on a gaming PC, you’ve got loads of choice right now.

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One of my earliest memories is playing SuperMario64 and wondering why the controller I held had three grips, but I only had two hands. Ever since I’ve been in love with video games and their technology. After graduating from Edinburgh Napier University with a degree in Journalism, I contributed to the Scottish Games Network and completed an Editorial Internship at Expert Reviews. Over the last decade, I’ve been managing my own YouTube channel about my love of games too. These days, I’m one of the resident hardware nerds at GamesRadar+, and I take the lead on our coverage of gaming PCs, VR, controllers, gaming chairs, and content creation gear. Now, I better stop myself here before I get talking about my favourite games like HUNT: Showdown, Dishonored, and Towerfall Ascension.

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