MOZA Brought Four Licensed Wheels to Gamescom. The Thing Worth Watching Was the Handlebar.
Porsche, Ford and two Mercedes wheels made the headlines in Cologne. But the MotoGP-licensed handlebar is the only piece doing something MOZA has never done before — and almost nothing shown has a price.
MOZA Racing took Hall 10.1, Booth A-022 at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne from August 26 to 30, ran six simulator stations of hands-on demos, and revealed more officially licensed hardware in one week than the brand has ever shown at once. Four new licensed steering wheels: a Porsche 911 GT3 RS, a Ford Mustang GTD, and not one but two Mercedes-Benz wheels. Every one of them drew a crowd. None of them is the interesting part.
The interesting part is that the fifth reveal is not a steering wheel at all. The MOZA x MotoGP Sim-Racing Handlebar, officially licensed by MotoGP, made its world premiere at the show — a year after MOZA and MotoGP announced they were working together at Gamescom 2025, and with no product to show for it until now. It abandons the wheel format entirely for motorcycle controls, and it is the only thing in this lineup that does something the company has not done before.
The spec sheet is more specific than most of what MOZA brought to Cologne. The bar is 620mm wide, with a magnesium-alloy rear housing, a plastic front housing and silicone grips, joined by a custom aluminium quick-release that passes signal through a conductive slip ring. There are ten backlit short-travel buttons, a D-pad, two five-way switches and six RGB shift LEDs across the top, all configurable through MOZA's Pit House software. A MOZA CM2 dashboard bolts on as an option.
What matters more than the button count is the control layout, which follows a real MotoGP bike rather than a generic one. Twist-grip throttle, front brake lever, clutch lever, and — the detail that tells you who this was built for — a thumb-operated rear brake in the MotoGP position. Brake and clutch run on Hall-effect sensors for linear travel. Throttle, brake and clutch positions are individually adjustable, as are the handlebar's width and angle, and the levers can be swapped out for actual motorcycle components. MOZA says the ergonomics were refined with professional riders.
MOZA has also built in two riding modes, Direct Lean and Countersteering, so the same hardware can either control lean angle directly or replicate the counter-steer input a rider actually uses at speed. It has not published a technical explanation of how the two differ, which is worth flagging rather than glossing: it is the central claim of the product and the one part still taken on trust.
One number is circulating that needs correcting. The figure of 3.9Nm to 25Nm attached to this handlebar in some coverage is not a handlebar specification — it is the torque range of MOZA's compatible direct drive wheelbase lineup, which is what the bar mounts to. MOZA has not confirmed a force feedback specification for the unit itself, nor a dedicated base for it. It works with every current MOZA wheelbase and, MOZA has been explicit, with no third-party base at all. Read that as an ecosystem decision rather than a technical limitation.
Game support is already locked in for MotoGP 26, GP Bikes, TrackDayR, Live for Speed, The Crew Motorfest, Assetto Corsa and BeamNG.drive, with more titles in development including further MotoGP entries, the RIDE and SBK series, RiMS Racing, TT Isle of Man and Lane Split. A launch is expected before the end of 2026. There is no price.
There is no price on the wheels either, and that is the honest summary of the whole showcase. The Porsche 911 GT3 RS wheel is the clearest case: MOZA showed a version of it at Gamescom 2025 and it never reached the market. This year's is rebuilt from original Porsche CAD data, with a detachable display where last year's prototype had a screen permanently fixed into the wheel, plus a functional horn button that most sim wheels skip. A Q1 2027 window has been rumoured and MOZA has not confirmed it. It sits alongside, not on top of, the existing Porsche Mission R wheel — a 320mm competition shape with a 5.4-inch flexible OLED, built for a different job.
The Mercedes pair is the reveal most people missed, because the coverage mostly counted it as one. The attention-getter takes its cues from the Mercedes-Benz VISION ONE-ELEVEN concept and carries five separate displays: four 1.04-inch circular screens set inside the rotary controls and a 2.85-inch centre screen hidden under a magnetic panel, with eight face buttons, two thumbwheels and two seven-way switches around them. The second, the MOZA x Mercedes-Benz GT Wheel, is a conventional shape much closer to MOZA's existing GT and Formula hardware. Both were shown at MOZA's booth and at Mercedes-Benz's, where five MOZA-powered rigs ran as part of the automaker's 140th anniversary display. The Ford Mustang GTD wheel, modelled on the steering system in the actual GTD, rounds out the set with a round rim, a heavy button count and rear paddles, sharing some design language with MOZA's CS Pro.
Exactly one product in the showcase has a price tag. The PHF Pedal Haptic Feedback Kit is EUR 45 for the complete kit and EUR 23 per additional module, operates between 0 and 100 Hz, fits the SR-P, SR-P Lite, SRP2 and CRP2 pedal sets, and reproduces ABS activation, traction control, engine RPM, wheel lock-up, wheel slip and gear changes through the pedal itself. It ships mid-September. MOZA also had its Racing Lab AI Coach running, and staged an AI-versus-human challenge on August 29 with Jarno Opmeer — a three-time F1 Sim Racing world champion, in 2020, 2021 and 2025 — against MOZA ambassador Dirk Schouten, streamed on the company's own YouTube channel.
What is not confirmed is worth stating plainly, because four simultaneous wheel reveals make it easy to forget: no pricing or release dates for the Porsche, the Ford or either Mercedes; no force feedback specification for the handlebar; and no confirmed Xbox or PlayStation compatibility for any of the new licensed wheels. MOZA's Gran Turismo World Series partnership, announced in July alongside the HMA150 motion system and the R16 Ultra base, does not by itself confirm PlayStation support for anything shown in Cologne. That is a MOZA confirmation to make, not an inference to draw from the rest of the catalogue.
Taken together, the pattern is clearer than any single reveal. Licensed partnerships are increasingly how sim racing hardware differentiates itself, and MOZA now has Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Ford, MotoGP and Gran Turismo attached to its name in the space of a year. Four of the five products that came out of that at Gamescom are new skins on a format the company already builds well. The handlebar is the one that changes what a MOZA rig can be, and it is also the one still missing the specification that would tell you whether it works.
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