Forte® Sim Racing Pedals Brake and Throttle

As well as being inspired by real-life racing, Forte Pedals have been thoroughly tested by both racers and sim racers, and with that feedback in mind, the pedals are engineered and designed.

If you have been looking for the best race car brake pedal feel, without going full hydraulic, look no further! The brake pedal on the Forte pedal set can be adjusted from soft to hard and it will stay that way – unlike many other sim racing pedals on the market, where the hardness and feel will degrade over time. It is not a coincidence a race driver wants a brake pedal, when fully depressed, feels like pushing a wall. Furthermore, Forte while not hydraulic, will still offer you the “hydraulic sensation” of a fully depressed brake pedal, where you can still pressure modulate/trail brake thanks to the 2-stage system inspired by Invicta. In real life it will feel like the brake pedal when pressed 100% and hard, still will react to further pressure like when trying to compress the fluid in a brake system.

Why does it matter? When applying brake pressure as late as possible you want to be able to use muscle memory to replicate that trail brake feeling going into the corner. By using muscle memory your brain is wired to be able to brake at the same spot over and over on the track.

Conversely, if you use a soft pedal, you will have to rely on foot or pedal position, disallowing your brain the ability to replicate with the same accuracy and you will – guaranteed – lose important lap time. Just consider the fact that on a racetrack with 10 corners, gaining or losing 1/10 of a second on the brake, means 1 second on your lap time….

The design on the Forte Pedals is engineered with user-experience in mind, where all adjustable elements are colored to get you started quickly and to ensure intuitive and mostly tool-less usage. The sim pedals are highly adjustable to help you channel your inner race car driver, by changing the travel and hardness settings to your exact preference.

Our unique industrial design is protected through the EU IPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office) by Registered Community Design No. 009148265-0001/0002/0003.

Tech Specs

• Exquisite, radical, and minimalistic industrial Danish design (Registered Community Design No. 009148265-0001/0002/0003)
• Made in Denmark
• Adjustable pedal stops
• Adjustable travel settings
• All-black anodized aluminum pedal base and pedal arms with CNC machined contrast cut
• All-black anodized aluminum smooth and sock-friendly pedal plates allowing hours and hours of comfortable use. The pedal plates can be adjusted vertically
• Pedal base with integrated heel rest and RGB LED that can be adjusted, dimmed, or turned completely off in the RaceHub software
• Calibrations made in RaceHub will automatically be saved in our EPROM (Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory). This results in calibration (pressures, deadzones and more) will remain saved for every simulator/game (You do need to set 0 and 100% value in the game)
• Only one USB connection to the PC from the pedal base regardless of 2 or 3 pedal utilization
• All adjustable mechanical features are by default colored orange
• Inhouse-developed electronics with 16-bit resolution
• Easy to add clutch pedal to the Forte Throttle & Brake combo
• Sustainable manufacturing with 100% on-site re-use of waste material
• Designed and tested to +1,000,000 activations, which far exceeds any race car specification

Dimensions

• Depth, width, and height: 457 mm x 212 mm x 256 mm / 18.0 in x 8.3 in x 10.1 in
• Weight: 3 kg / 6.6 lbs

PC
Console support planned in the future

Platforms: Windows 10, 11

Products

• Invicta Clutch System
• • Forte Pedal plate included when you purchase the clutch

Games

• Assetto Corsa
• Assetto Corsa Competizione
• DiRT Rally
• DiRT Rally 2.0
• F1 Series
• iRacing
• Project Cars 2
• rFactor 2
• And many more (all games that accept direct input devices)

Mounting Schematics

• Forte Pedals Brake & Throttle – mm
• Forte Pedals Brake & Throttle – inch
• Forte Pedals Brake, Throttle & Clutch – mm
• Forte Pedals Brake, Throttle & Clutch – inch

Manuals

• Forte Manual Brake & Throttle

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting for Forte Pedals

Knowledgebase

• Forte Pedals

Downloads

• Get RaceHub

A hard brake pedal is faster because you can brake later, and it is required to properly trail brake and use your muscle memory to do so, as explained later. You can consider a race car braking system as 2 stages:

The “soft stage”: When you apply pressure on the pedal, it will move 10-20 mm (0.39-0.79 in) (measured on the pedal plate), while you build up pressure, while the caliper pistons are traveling to and pushing the brake pads lightly against the brake disc, and to compensate for the small amount of play in all the mechanical parts on the pedal system that is required for them not to seize up.

The “hard stage”: When hydraulic pressure is built up, the brake pads are squeezing the discs hard and all mechanical play is compensated. In this stage, your foot is basically “pressing against a wall”, because now your muscles are pressing directly against the hydraulic forces (the brake fluid). Since the fluid cannot be compressed, you will feel the pedal is hard. When a race car driver complains about a “long” or a “soft” pedal, it is typically because there is air in the system, and since air CAN be compressed, the pedal will feel soft and long. The mechanics then bleed the brakes for air, meaning there is only fluid left in the system, and the pedal is once again hard after passing the “soft stage”.

Most mechanical sim racing pedals on the market, have an “unlimited” travel, as it is essentially a question about how hard you squeeze the elastomer. Oftentimes, the elastomer is overworked (compressed more than designed for) and it provides a spongy and inconsistent brake feel and eventually the elastomer will break because of being overworked out of spec. But worst of all: with the long brake pedal travel, you will have to brake earlier to build up full brake pressure!

In our quest to mimic the perfect race car feel, we have implemented a mechanical stop in our M.L.C.P.C. brake system. You can adjust the hardness of the “soft stage”, by changing elastomers, but the travel will be limited to 15-25 mm (0.15-0.98 in) on the pedal plate (around 12mm (0.47 in) piston travel in the M.L.C.P.C cylinder), to simulate the “hard stage” where the pressure has built up, and the feeling is like “pressing a wall”. In the transition between the soft and hard stage (when hitting the mechanical stop) we have implemented a rubber damper, which will simulate the fully engaged brake caliper but still enable the load cell sensor to measure additional pedal pressure, which again allows for a perfect trail braking. This is the same feeling you get in a real race car.

Because the load cell sensor is implemented with a gearing (ratio between pedal pressure and load cell deflection), any user using from the softest elastomer to hardest elastomer will experience the full load cell resolution of around 4000 points in only 12 mm (0.47 in) inside the M.L.C.P.C cylinder from released pedal to 2^nd stage. That is a resolution of 1/5th of a human hair!

And THAT is the Asetek SimSports Forte M.L.C.P.C. difference!