Logitech G RS Formula Wheel McLaren review: $129.99 for a bare formula rim

The RS Formula Wheel McLaren Racing Edition is a $129.99 formula-style rim with nothing electrical in it. Logitech’s subtitle for it is “Steering wheel attachment for RS Wheel Hub”, its box holds a wheel and a documentation sheet, and its whole requirement line reads “Requires RS Wheel Hub or RS QR Adapter”. That second part is what separates it from the two RS rims beside it: those two name the hub and only the hub, and this one names a $69.99 bare quick release as an alternative. The two routes onto a base cost $279.98 and $199.98 before the base, and they do not buy the same thing.

Type	Formula-style rim (rim only; no controls, no electronics, nothing in the box but the wheel and documentation)
Rim	TPE grips on a low-carbon aluminum face plate, in Logitech's papaya-and-black McLaren livery. One color, one SKU, 941-000325.
Inputs	None. "Button", "encoder", "rotary", "funky", and "paddle" appear nowhere on Logitech's listing.
Size and weight	Logitech publishes Height 43mm, Width 188mm, Depth 286mm, Weight 500g, and no diameter. Two-year limited hardware warranty.
What it mounts to	The RS Wheel Hub or the RS QR Adapter, both separate purchases. No bolt pattern published and no non-Logitech mount named.
Connectivity	Passive. No USB, no port, no data of its own. Whatever it bolts to carries the connection.
Platforms	Not stated. This listing names no console and no operating system, unlike both RS rims, which carry an "XBOX/PC/PS" label.
Price	$129.99 rim only; $279.98 with the $149.99 PC hub, $199.98 with the $69.99 RS QR Adapter, and $629.97 or $549.97 with the cheapest Logitech base under those.
Best for	Logitech RS or PRO base owners who already run the RS Wheel Hub and want an open-wheel shape on it

Who it’s for

Someone who already owns the RS Wheel Hub and a Logitech direct-drive base, races open-wheel cars, and wants the rim shape to match without re-buying controls.

Buy it if:

• You run the RS Wheel Hub and want a formula profile beside the round or Track rim you already bolt on.
• You drive F4, F3, or F1-style cars, where your hands stay at 9-and-3 and a closed circle gets in the way.
• You want the McLaren livery. Logitech says the shape is drawn from a real car: its launch post calls it “modeled after the steering wheel of McLaren’s MCL38, adapting its design to suit sim racing enthusiasts”.

Not the one if you own no Logitech direct-drive base and have no plan to buy one, because $129.99 buys a part that steers nothing on its own and the cheapest working build off it is $549.97. Also not the one if you want the controls on the rim, where a complete formula wheel like the MOZA FSR2 puts the paddles, the buttons, and a screen in the same purchase.

What it costs to steer with

Logitech names two parts and prices them $80.00 apart, and the cheaper one carries no controls.

The hub route, $279.98. The RS Wheel Hub is $149.99 in its PC option and $189.99 with the Xbox license, and it holds the gear shifters, the rev-light strip, and the quick release onto the base. Add the $349.99 PC RS50 and the build is $629.97, or $669.97 on the XBOX/PC hub. Both hub SKUs read out of stock on Logitech’s US store on 2 August 2026, under a rendered “Sold Out Temporarily”, so this route was not buyable that day.

The adapter route, $199.98. The RS QR Adapter is $69.99 and its box holds an adapter, bolts and nuts, a hex key, and a documentation sheet. It is a quick release and nothing else, so a rim on it is a wheel with no buttons, no paddles, and no rev lights. Its own listing carries a platform label of “PC” and its requirement reads “Attaches to RS/PRO Racing Base”. With the same $349.99 base the build is $549.97, and it had 7 units left with a low-inventory flag on 2 August 2026.

Logitech does not spell out that the cheaper route costs you every control, and the arithmetic is the only place it shows. The $80.00 between the $69.99 adapter and the $149.99 PC hub is what buys the gear shifters, the rev lights, and every control on the wheel. Price the whole stack before the rim.

Logitech states the pairing from one end only

This rim’s listing names the RS Wheel Hub in its subtitle, in its requirement line, and in a feature block of its own. The hub’s listing does not name this rim once. Its System Requirements carry one group, headed “Compatible Steering Wheels with PRO Racing Base”, and that group holds exactly four entries on 2 August 2026: the RS Track Wheel, the RS Round Wheel, the MOMO x Logitech SIM GT 320, and the MOMO x Logitech SIM GT Racer 290.

The RS QR Adapter is the same shape of gap in the other direction. Its feature copy names “MOMO’s extensive range of premium steering wheels” and no Logitech rim at all.

So the fit rests on one sentence, on one page, and Logitech has not restated it anywhere a reader would look for it. That sentence is unambiguous and it is Logitech’s own, which is enough to buy on. It is not enough to work out what else fits: with no published bolt pattern on this rim, nothing tells you whether it goes on the adapter’s 70mm holes or its 50.8mm ones, or whether the four-rim group is now five.

Watch-outs

• No platform statement at all. Both RS rims carry Logitech’s “XBOX/PC/PS” label. This listing has no platform field, and “Xbox”, “PlayStation”, “PS5”, “PS4”, and “Windows” each appear zero times on it. That is silence rather than a restriction, and what you can actually play on comes from the hub or adapter underneath.
• No diameter, and the axis names change. Logitech gives this rim a Height, a Width, and a Depth where the two RS rims get a Height, a Length, and a Width, so the three listings cannot be laid side by side on anything but weight. At 500g it is 10g under the Track rim and 162g under the Round.
• Logitech names one material two ways. The store listing says the wheel “features a rigid low-carbon aluminum face plate and glass-filled nylon”. The 2025-09-17 launch post says it is “Constructed with lightweight low carbon aluminum paired with durable glass-filled polycarbonate and TPE materials”. Nylon and polycarbonate are different plastics, and the post is from September 2025 against a listing read on 2 August 2026.
• Almost nobody has reported on it. Logitech shipped this in Q1 2026 by its own announcement, and its listing showed a single customer review on 2 August 2026, against 95 on the RS Track Wheel and 122 on the RS Wheel Hub. Very little owner evidence exists about it either way.
• Logitech-only, twice over. No USB of its own, no adapter to another brand’s base, and no bolt pattern published for anything outside Logitech’s own two mounts. See rims and quick-releases for what that locks out.

Alternatives to consider

• Logitech RS Round Wheel: $69.99 for the same kind of purchase in a round profile, and $60 cheaper. The one to buy if you drive rally, drift, and road cars rather than open-wheel.
• Logitech RS Wheel Hub: $149.99, the part this rim needs under it, reviewed on its own. Buy that first and any rim after it costs the rim alone.
• MOZA FSR2: $649 for a complete formula wheel with a 4.3-inch touchscreen and six magnetic paddles, for MOZA bases. One purchase for the shape and the controls together, at five times this rim’s price.
• Fanatec ClubSport Formula V2.5 X: $439.99 for a carbon formula rim with its own OLED dash and up to 67 mappable functions, inside Fanatec’s quick-release ecosystem.

Buy the hub and a Logitech RS50 base before the rim, then read rims and quick-releases for what the Logitech-only mount rules out.