Case Study - BDH Race Sim Hardware

BDH Race Sim Hardware is a British family company producing some of the finest hand-crafted sim racing gear shifters in the world. They build their own high-end accessories for race simulators while also working on custom and bespoke projects for a number of clients in and around the simulation industry and real-life motorsport.

Having been involved in motorsport for most of his life, Dave Hunter, founder of BDH Race Sim, started out as a keen sim racer who dreamt of owning a pro-simulator. Then during Covid lockdown, a friend suggested, ‘why don’t you get in your shed and build one?’ Within days he had created a first test product. The next step was to develop it into something more robust. This was what was to become the first prototype for BDM’s successful race sim product - a 6-shifter that, as Dave says ‘felt like a short-throw, close-ratio dog-box from an Escort rally car’.

Hand-built in Yorkshire using high grade aluminium and high tensile steel, Dave and BDH use a number of Warco machines to both continue the research and development of their products, producing improvements and prototypes, but also to produce the final products – which include Sequential and H Pattern Sim Shifters that create the most realistic simulation experiences.

Since the early 2000s, sim racing is established as an industry in its own right, with online racing fast becoming as exhilarating as the real thing. With the help of robust, accurate and precise machine tools from Warco, BDH continues to be a leader in the market.