Experience A Pagani Huayra R For Much Less Money* With This Sim Rig

A real-life, track-only Pagani Huayra R cost €2.6 million, or around £2.2 million, when it was new. Plus taxes. On the track day car spectrum, it’s at the complete opposite end to a crumbly NB MX-5 with a roll bar. And they only made 30.

Fair to say, then, that not many of us will ever get to experience one. Luckily, sim racing specialist Racing Unleashed has unveiled a new sim rig that should open up something approximating the Huayra R experience to a fair few more people. We still can’t imagine it’ll be cheap, though.

An official collaboration with Pagani, the rig is built around a single curving piece of green carbon fibre, recreating one of the colour schemes found on the real-life Huayra R. It even comes from the same autoclave that Pagani uses.

The setup also gets the same steering wheel, pedals, seat and even racing harnesses – just in case you get so immersed you’re tempted to fling yourself forward when you hit a virtual wall after virtually getting it wrong around a virtual Copse Corner.

The software is built around Assetto Corsa Pro – a more in-depth, professional-oriented version of the consumer sim. The hardware, meanwhile, includes a curved screen, 5.1 surround sound, and motion actuation that supposedly recreates the handling of the real thing as closely as possible. Anyone want to let us have a go in both to see just how realistic it is?

Initially offered just to Huayra R owners, the sim is now available to everyone, although you’ll still have to go through a Pagani dealer to get one. We don’t have a price, but we imagine it’ll be many, many thousands of pounds – probably enough to buy a real-life Caterham and do real-life track days.

Still, if your sim hardware budget is more limited, Asetek SimSports will at least sell you a set of officially licensed Huayra R pedals – although even these are €787 (around £675). It’s a pricey hobby.