ADAC SimRacing Expo 2024: Everything you need to know

What is the ADAC SimRacing Expo?

The ADAC SimRacing Expo is the virtual racing scene’s preeminent yearly event. Visitors can test sim racing equipment, witness new product unveilings and try updated racing games and simulations.

When is the ADAC SimRacing Expo 2024?

This year, the ADAC SimRacing Expo will be held across three days: Friday 18th to Sunday 20th October 2024.

ADAC SimRacing Expo 2024 opening times:

• Friday 18th October: 10:00 – 18:00 CET
• Saturday 19th October: 10:00 – 18:00 CET
• Sunday 20th October: 10:00 – 18:00 CET

Where is the ADAC SimRacing Expo 2024?

The ADAC SimRacing Expo is held in Germany at the Messe Dortmund, Hall 3:

Rheinlanddamm 200, 44139 Dortmund, Germany

How much is ADAC SimRacing Expo entry?

Tickets for the ADAC SimRacing Expo cost €22 for a day or €55.10 for the weekend and can be purchased online ahead of your visit.

If you use the Traxion.GG affiliate link, you can also receive a 5% discount on day tickets, making it €17.10.

Simply click the Traxion affiliate link, then when purchasing a ticket, select ‘discount & booking options’ and add the discount Traxion ticket to your basket to receive the discount.

Exhibitor list

There is a long list of exhibitors for visitors to peruse, the full list is below, which includes a slew of sim racing equipment manufacturers, game developers and community-powered projects.

Highlights include BDH with its range of tough sim gear shifters, Trak Racer’s rapidly expanding range and behemoth Logitech. Popular steering wheel and accessory creators Thrustmaster are also present, alongside several motion simulator providers available to test on-site.

Sim racing driving platform RaceRoom will, as ever, be present with possible new content and updates, while Assetto Corsa EVO will also be playable across numerous stands!

If you’d like to go hands-on with some of the most extravagant steering wheels, then GSI is present. Finnish purveyors of top-end wheel bases and force feedback pedals, Simucube, should be on your list to visit with its ActivePedal Pro.

• 3DRAP
• Absolute Motorsport
• Acelith
• Actoracer
• ADAC
• Asetek SimSports
• Ascher Racing
• Automanix (AMX)
• BavarianSimTec
• BDH Race Simulator Hardware
• Bundeswehr
• Cammus
• CaseKing.de
• Cooler Master
• Conspit
• Cube Controls
• D-BOX
• Delta Sim-Tech
• Fanatec
• Fachhochschule Dortmund (University of Applied Sciences and Arts)
• GCOM360
• GET Racing
• Gomez Sim Industries (GSI)
• Gravideck
• Grid Finder
• GRIP
• GTR Simulator
• Heusinkveld
• Hyundai N
• ImSim
• Init Esports
• Kunos Simulazioni
• Logitech
• Mark E
• MME Sim Racing
• Moza Racing
• Ntrio Concepts
• Novus
• Nurburgring Esports
• P1Sim
• Pagid Racing
• Peugeot Sport
• ProSimu
• PRUSA Research by Josef Prusa
• Race-Motion
• RaceRoom Racing Experience
• Racing Unleashed
• Ready Set Sim
• Rennwelten
• RS Simulation
• RSEAT
• Sabelt Sim Racing
• Screen to Speed
• Sensit
• Sim Motion
• Sim Department
• Sim-Lab
• Simagic
• SimCore
• SimRaceShop (SRS)
• SimRacing Pro (SRP)
• SimRep Engineering
• SIMRIG
• SimStaff
• Simucube
• Simufy
• Soelpec
• Soop
• Stefdan Morsch Stiftung
• The Racing Hub
• Thrustmaster
• Top Speed Center
• Trak Racer
• TrackTime
• Traxion
• Truck Grand Prix
• Treq
• Venym
• VRS
• Vognarf
• VGP

Esports competitions

Unlike previous years, there are no in-person LAN sim racing esports competitions, but the event is still organising two competitions that will be live-streamed during the weekend. 

There is the iRacing Digital GT500 competition, with its final on Sunday 20th October where a €5,000 prize pool will be distributed.

Before then, the Asetek SimSports Community Trophy for non-professional drivers (using Assetto Corsa) is on the evening of Friday 18th October.

Live stage

There will also be a live stage with presentations, interviews and panels.

Matze Brandt and Luke Crane are confirmed as hosts, with Alex Goldschmidt and Nicolas Hillebrand on commentary duties for the aforementioned esports competitions.

Here is the full schedule:

Day one (18th October)

• 11.00 – Opening
• 11.15 – Keynote – Rennwelten
• 12.00 – Discussion – SimRacing Center with Thomas Ronhear and Jonah Martens
• 13.00 – Keynote – Conspit
• 14.00 – Keynote – VRS Virtual Racing School
• 15.00 – Keynote – Ascher Racing
• 16.00 – Keynote – 10 years of SimRacing Expo
• 17.00 – Race – Asetek SimSports Community Trophy

Day two (19^th October)

• 10.00 – Opening
• 10.35 – Award – Award Ceremony ADAC & DMSB
• 11.30 – Keynote – Astek SimSports
• 12.00 – Discussion – F1 Content Creator Series
• 14.00 – Keynote – Logitech G
• 14.00 – Keynote – Kunos Simulazioni – Assetto Corsa EVO
• 15.00 – Keynote – Hyundai N Virtual  Cup
• 16.00 – Discussion – Is this the golden age of Sims?
• 17.00 – Keynote – Fanatec

Day three (20^th October)

17.00 – Race – GT500

10.00 – Opening

10.15 – Discussion – Where is hardware still improving?

12.00 – Interactive – Traxion.GG Gameshow

13.00 – Discussion – VCO Esports Rivalries in SimRacing

14.00 – Discussion – Women in Motorsports

15.00 – Discussion – How to setup a Sim

16.00 – Keynote – Tim Heinemann – From Sim to DTM

Podcast overview

For all the biggest ADAC SimRacing Expo news, however, why not listen to the organisational team itself? Watch the recent episode of the Traxion Podcast, which is embedded below.