Simagic FX Formula Steering Wheel review: $359 for the FX Pro's shape without its screen

The Simagic FX Formula Steering Wheel is a 290mm carbon formula rim at $359.00, Simagic’s regular price on its own store, discounted to $239.00 on 3 August 2026. It carries 12 customizable RGB buttons, 3 rotary encoders, 4 thumb encoders, a 7-way multi-position switch, a Hall-effect paddle module, and the SIMAGIC QR50 quick release already fitted. What it does not carry is a display of any kind, which is the whole of what separates it from the FX Pro above it, along with two rotary encoders and 200 grams. Simagic’s own name for it is in the listing copy: “Co-developed with formula racers and engineers Formula Xtreme, born to provide the ultimate formula racing experience.”

Type	Complete formula wheel. Simagic's specification table gives Wheel Type as "Formula Steering Wheel/GT"
Rim	290mm diameter. "5mm high-quality carbon fiber faceplate, total weight 1550g" in the manual's words, over "Silicone handles with anti-slip, sweat-resistant coating". The specification table writes the grip material "Silcone", which is Simagic's typo for it
Inputs	"12 Customizable RGB Controls: 4 thumb rotary encoders, 3 rotary encoder buttons, 1 7-way multi-position switch", plus one "SIMAGIC S-ray Multi-function RGB Light"
Paddles	"HALL Paddle Module: Included", described as "Patented Hall-Effect Paddle Modules: Precise actuation, crisp shifts, zero contact wear". "Dual Clutch Paddles: Optional", and see below on what that option can be bought as. The manual says paddles "are adjustable horizontally and vertically"
Display	None. No display row in the specification table, and none of screen, display, LCD, or inch occurs in a Simagic sentence about this wheel: LCD returns zero across all four surfaces, and the screen and display hits on the two web pages are all CSS, none of them left once tags, scripts, and styles are stripped
Connectivity	"SIMAGIC QR50 Included", onto a Simagic base bought separately. Pairs wirelessly first: "Press down the two buttons simultaneously for 5 seconds to start auto-pairing", with an included USB-C cable to the base as the fallback. No PC-direct mode and no cross-brand mount named
Platforms	Not stated. Simagic names no operating system and no console on any surface for this wheel
In the box	The manual's Package Contents: "USB Data Cable x 1", "Cap Stickers x 2", "Tweezer x 1", "Allen Key (1.27mm/1.5mm/2mm/2.5mm) x 1". The two specification tables word it differently again, and the disagreement is noted below
Warranty	"a warranty period of 24 months from the original date of purchase", for wheels bought on or after 15 July 2023
Price	$359.00 regular, $239.00 on sale on 3 August 2026. The cheapest Simagic base under it is $399.00, for $758.00 at regular prices
Best for	Simagic base owners who want the formula shape and the control count, and who read telemetry off a monitor or a separate dash rather than off the rim

Who it’s for

Someone already on a Simagic base, or buying onto one, who wants a real formula wheel and does not want to pay for a screen built into it.

Buy it if:

• You already own a Simagic base. The QR50 is fitted, the wheel pairs to the base wirelessly, and there is nothing else to buy to make it work.
• You want the control count without the display. 12 RGB buttons, 3 rotary encoders, 4 thumb encoders, and a 7-way switch is 20 assignable inputs on the face, which is the same button, thumb-encoder, and switch count the FX Pro carries.
• You run a separate dash or read the monitor. Every telemetry readout this wheel does not have is one you were getting somewhere else anyway, and $190.00 at regular prices is what that decision saves against the FX Pro.

Not the one if you want telemetry on the rim, which is the FX Pro’s job and the reason for its price. Not the one if you want a launch clutch, because Simagic calls the dual clutch optional and sells no way to option it. And not the one if you are not on a Simagic base: there is no USB mode and no cross-brand adapter, so $359.00 buys a wheel that steers nothing until a Simagic base is under it.

The screen is the whole difference, and both spec tables hide it

Simagic publishes the FX and the FX Pro on the same page template with the same specification table, so the two are directly comparable. Read the same day, both tables have the same 14 rows and differ on four of them.

Row, in Simagic’s wording	FX	FX Pro
Diameter	290mm	290mm
Net Weight	1550g	1750g
Wheel building material	Carbon Fiber	Carbon Fiber
Grip material	”Silcone"	"Silicone”
Customizable RGB buttons	12	12
Rotary Encoders	3	5
Thumb Rotary Encoders	4	4
7-way Multi-position Rotary Switch	1	1
SIMAGIC S-ray Multi-function RGB light	1	1
HALL Paddle Module	Included	Included
Paddle row	”Dual Clutch paddles: Optional"	"6 paddle modules: Included”
Quick Release	”SIMAGIC QR50 Included"	"SIMAGIC QR50 Included”
Accessories	”Installation Kit, USB 3.0 Cable, Button cap stickers (128x)"	"Installation Kit, USB 3.0 Cable, Button cap stickers (128x)”

Neither specification table names a display. The FX Pro’s has no display row either, and it has a display. What states it is that page’s marketing copy, twice: “Sharp and vivid 4.3” LCD display. Real time data monitoring for multiple telemetry systems.” and “Sharp 4.3” LCD display.” The FX’s page carries no equivalent sentence and no equivalent row. Searched case-insensitively across its whole served document and its whole user manual, LCD returns zero, and inch returns zero on the web pages and twice in the manual inside “pinch points” and “pinching”. Screen returns 73 hits on the detail page and 68 on the listing, and display returns 121 and 125, and every one of those is page code rather than prose, @media screen queries and display: properties. Stripping the tags, the scripts, and the styles takes all four words to zero in the text a reader sees. So the absence is established by two surfaces agreeing on nothing being there rather than by Simagic saying the wheel has no screen, which it never does.

What the $190.00 buys, at regular prices. $549.00 against $359.00 is $190.00, or 52.92% of the smaller figure. On the sale prices both wheels carried on 3 August 2026, $499.00 against $239.00, it is $260.00 and 108.79%, so the sale roughly doubles the effective gap: the FX was discounted 33.43% and the FX Pro 9.11%. Which figure a shopper faces depends on the day, and the two wheels are not discounted in step.

The two rotary encoders are the other real loss. 3 against 5, with thumb encoders, buttons, and the 7-way switch identical. On a formula wheel the rotaries are where brake bias, traction control, and engine maps live, so two fewer is two adjustments that move to a menu or to a keyboard.

The clutch paddles are advertised and cannot be bought

This is the one thing on the listing that does not resolve. Simagic’s detail page runs a section headed “Upgradeable with Clutch Paddles”, and the only line under that heading is *“Available as separate model.” It captions two images “Shifter Paddles Only” and “Shifter & Clutch Paddles”. Both specification tables, the page’s and the manual’s, give “Dual Clutch Paddles” the value “Optional”.

Simagic’s store sells no such model and no such part. Its catalog served 115 products on 3 August 2026. There is one FX Formula Steering Wheel listing, with one variant named “Default Title”, one SKU (10204-0001), and one price. No second FX model appears, and a store search for “FX-C” returns three results, none of them a third FX: this wheel, the FX Pro, and a “Simagic Checkered-Flag-FX Pro-P2000 Hydraulic Bundle”.

The nearest-looking part is not evidence about this wheel. Simagic lists a “Simagic Paddle Shifter Module Series” at $40.00 single, $55.00 two-paddle, $80.00 three-paddle, and $65.00 push-pull. Its own description names no wheel at all, and its four SKUs sit in the 10708 family at the same prices as the two paddle-module options on the Neo X Hub listing. Nothing Simagic publishes connects it to the FX, so do not buy it expecting it to fit.

The honest reading is that the clutch option is real in Simagic’s documentation and unbuyable on Simagic’s own store. If you need a launch clutch, the FX Pro ships six paddle modules and states them as included.

What it costs to actually steer

$359.00 buys a wheel that turns nothing on its own. Every connection instruction in the manual routes through a base.

The cheapest Simagic base is $399.00. Simagic’s wheel base collection served five products on 3 August 2026. Two tie for cheapest at $399.00, the Alpha Mini and the 9Nm option of the Alpha EVO series, and both carried a compare-at price equal to their price that day, so neither was discounted. Above them the Alpha EVO 12Nm was $519.00 against a $549.00 regular price, the Alpha is $649.00, the 18Nm EVO $699.00, the Alpha Ultimate $899.00, and the Alpha EVO Ultra 28Nm $969.00.

So the entry total is $758.00 at regular prices, wheel plus the cheapest base, and $638.00 if you catch the wheel’s sale. Pedals are on top of both figures.

Simagic bundles the FX Pro and never this wheel. Across all 115 products, the FX Pro’s SKU (10204-0002) appears in four bundle variants: “EVO 12nm+FX PRO” at $1,069.00, “EVO PRO 18nm+FX PRO+P2000-S100R” at $1,907.00, “Alpha EVO Pro (18Nm)+FX Pro+P1000i-RS” at $1,947.00, and “FX Pro+Alpha EVO Ultra 28Nm+P2000-S200R” at $1,799.00. This wheel’s SKU (10204-0001) appears in none. Simagic even sells an FX Pro T-shirt and no FX one. So the bundle discount route that exists for the GT Neo, the Neo X wheels, the GTS, and the FX Pro does not exist for this wheel, and it has to be bought at its own price.

How it mounts

The QR50 is fitted and it is a bolt circle, not a tier. The specification table reads “SIMAGIC QR50 Included” on both the detail page and page 4 of the manual, the feature icon under the product images reads “50mm SIMAGIC Quick Release”, and the dimension sheet gives the pattern as “Quick Release Mounting Holes: 50mm x 3-M5”. The Simagic quick release guide sets out what that 50mm means across Simagic’s range, which bases and hubs take it, and the fifteen different ways Simagic names its own part.

It pairs wirelessly, with a cable as the fallback. The manual’s section 4.2 is headed “Sync the Frequency” and its first step is “Press down the two buttons simultaneously for 5 seconds to start auto-pairing”. Step two is the fallback: “If auto-pairing does not work, use an included USB-C cable to connect the steering wheel to the base from backside.” That cable runs wheel to base, not wheel to computer, which is why this wheel reaches a PC only through a Simagic base. Simagic’s specification tables call the included cable a “USB 3.0 Cable” on the detail page and a “USB Cable” in the manual, and the connection step is the only place any surface says which end goes where.

The quick release itself. “The quick release assembly contains 6 steel balls on the top half, and 4 steel balls on the bottom half”, which is the sentence Simagic repeats across eleven of its fourteen text-bearing manuals.

Dimensions. The dimension sheet labels one figure, “Wheel Rim Diameter: 290mm”, and draws two more, 161.9mm and 90mm, without labeling either. So the rim diameter is the only dimension this site can attribute.

Watch-outs

• No Simagic base, no wheel. There is no USB-direct mode, no adapter, and no cross-brand quick release named anywhere across four Simagic surfaces. Price a $399.00 base in before this is a purchase at all.
• The $239.00 is a sale and Simagic labels it as one. The listing prints “Regular price” over $359.00. A price that a manufacturer marks temporary is not the price to plan a build around.
• The clutch option has no listing. Covered above. Do not order this wheel expecting to add clutch paddles later.
• The three accessory lists disagree about the box. The detail page says “Installation Kit, USB 3.0 Cable, Button cap stickers (128x)”, the manual’s specification table says “USB Cable, Installation Kit, Cap Stickers (128x)”, and the manual’s own Package Contents section lists “USB Data Cable x 1”, “Cap Stickers x 2”, “Tweezer x 1”, and “Allen Key (1.27mm/1.5mm/2mm/2.5mm) x 1”. The sticker count is 128 in both tables and 2 in the contents list, most likely 2 sheets of 128 caps, though Simagic never says so. The tweezer and Allen key appear only in the contents list.
• Simagic states no console, so assume none. Nothing on any surface names PlayStation or Xbox. Read that as unanswered rather than as a yes.
• Specifications carry their own disclaimer. The manual’s specification page footnotes itself: ”* Specifications subject to change without notice”.

Alternatives to consider

• Simagic FX Pro: $549.00 regular and $499.00 on 3 August 2026, for the same 290mm carbon formula shape plus a 4.3-inch LCD, five rotary encoders instead of three, and six paddle modules including the clutch. The step up inside the same ecosystem, and the one that answers the two things this wheel does not.
• Simagic GT Neo: $289.00 regular and $239.00 on 3 August 2026, a GT shape rather than a formula one on the same QR50. The pick if your cars have round wheels, at the same sale price this one carried that day.
• Moza FSR2: $649.00, the Moza-ecosystem formula wheel with a screen and six magnetic paddles. Relevant only if the base under it is a Moza, since neither wheel crosses to the other’s base.
• Fanatec ClubSport Steering Wheel Formula V2.5 X: $439.99, the formula wheel for a Fanatec base and the only one in that range with an Xbox license. A different ecosystem again, and the one to read if consoles matter, since Simagic answers nothing about them.

Check which base you own before anything else: this wheel’s entire compatibility story is the QR50 and the Simagic base it lands on. Rims and quick-releases covers what crosses between brands and what does not, and wheelbases covers the half of the purchase this wheel cannot do without.

Sources

Every figure, quotation, and count above was read on 3 August 2026. No part of this page rests on hands-on use.

• FX Formula Steering Wheel listing, 426,982 bytes ending </html>, for the “Sale price” and “Regular price” labels and the “Formula Xtreme” description. Its product JSON gives the single variant, SKU 10204-0001, price 239.00 against compare_at_price 359.00.
• FX detail page, 371,791 bytes ending </html>, for the 14-row specification table read as feature-chart label and value pairs, the “50mm SIMAGIC Quick Release” feature icon, the “Upgradeable with Clutch Paddles” heading over “*Available as separate model.”, and the two paddle image captions. The screen, display, LCD, and inch counts are case-insensitive searches of that whole served document, raw bytes included: LCD and inch return zero, screen returns 73 and display 121, and all 194 of those are CSS rather than prose, which is why the page reads them as zero occurrences in what Simagic actually says.
• FX user manual, 6,122,949 bytes ending %%EOF, read through pdftotext -layout, for the overview bullets, the specification table, section 1.3 Package Contents, section 2.2 and its auto-pairing and steel-ball sentences, and the 24-month warranty term.
• FX dimension sheet, 313,209 bytes ending %%EOF, for “Wheel Rim Diameter: 290mm” and “Quick Release Mounting Holes: 50mm x 3-M5”.
• FX Pro detail page for the comparison table’s right-hand column and the two 4.3-inch LCD sentences, read the same day off the same template.
• Steering Wheels collection JSON for the FX Pro, GT Neo, GTS, and GTC prices and compare-at prices, and wheel base collection JSON for the five base products and the $399.00 floor. The 115-product catalog count, the bundle SKU search, and the paddle module series prices come from products.json paged at 250 per page.