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Thrustmaster has officially revealed the Ferrari 499P Centenary Winner Edition, and this is very clearly not a normal wheel launch. This thing is being positioned as a collector-focused endurance racing product first and a mainstream sim racing release second, which makes sense the second you look at what is actually being offered. It is a limited-run wheel built with Ferrari and 24H Le Mans, based on the Ferrari 499P that took victory in the centenary edition of the race.
And honestly, Thrustmaster is not being subtle about the target audience here. This is for the buyer who wants something special, something branded around one of the biggest recent moments in endurance racing, and something that leans just as hard into presentation and collectability as it does into actual use on a rig. Whether that justifies the asking price is going to be the real debate, but as a product reveal, it is definitely one of the more striking ones Thrustmaster has done in a while.
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The Ferrari 499P Centenary Winner Edition is an officially licensed wheel created in collaboration between Thrustmaster, Ferrari, and 24H Le Mans. Thrustmaster says it is a 1:1 scale inspiration of the race-winning 499P steering wheel and that production will be capped at 499 individually numbered units. So right away, this is being framed more like a commemorative collector release than a volume product meant for everyone.
That limited-run approach is a big part of the pitch. Thrustmaster is not only selling a wheel here, it is selling a piece of Le Mans-themed memorabilia that also happens to be functional sim racing hardware. That distinction matters, because it explains both the feature set and the price much more clearly.
Underneath the collector angle, there is still a lot of actual hardware here. Thrustmaster says the wheel uses a hand-applied molded carbon fiber back cover and comes with 6 adjustable paddles, made up of 2 carbon fiber shift paddles and 4 analog metal paddles with customizable functions. That already puts it in a much more serious category than a simple licensed shell.
On the front, the wheel integrates 11 buttons, a subtly embedded D-pad, 4 aluminum thumb encoders, and 3 additional rotary encoders, with Thrustmaster saying the full setup allows up to 25 configurable actions directly from the wheel. There is also a 4.3-inch LCD screen that can display up to 140 parameters, plus 12 RPM LEDs and 10 flag LEDs. So even though the branding and presentation are clearly headline features, this is not some hollow display piece either.
This is where the product gets especially interesting. The wheel comes with a steel display stand branded with Ferrari 499P and 24H Le Mans markings, and the package also includes two A3 collector posters. One is an official 24H Le Mans Automobilist print celebrating the 2023 win, while the other is a technical blueprint-style poster focused on the wheel itself.
That extra presentation matters because it tells you how Thrustmaster expects people to see this product. Yes, it is meant to be driven with, but it is also clearly meant to be displayed, photographed, talked about, and treated like a proper collectible. For some people, that will be a huge part of the appeal. For others, it will just make the price harder to justify.
One of the more notable extras is that the wheel includes the Le Mans Ultimate base game along with the complete 2024 Season and ELMS Season Pass content released up to June 12, 2026. That is a pretty smart pairing given the theme of the product, and it helps make the whole thing feel more complete rather than just decorative.
It also reinforces who this wheel is really aimed at. This is very much an endurance racing product, built around the Ferrari 499P and the Le Mans story around it, not a general-purpose mass-market add-on trying to appeal equally to everyone.
According to Thrustmaster’s official product page, the Ferrari 499P Centenary Winner Edition is listed for PC, PS5, and Xbox. The official Le Mans reveal page also says that public pre-orders begin June 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM CEST. Pricing shared through the launch press material has the wheel at €851, $851, and £751, which immediately places it in a very premium part of the market.
And really, that is where the conversation around this wheel is going to live. Because at that price, this is not competing on normal value terms. It is competing on exclusivity, presentation, licensing, and how much the Ferrari 499P and Le Mans connection means to the buyer. That will make it very attractive to some people and very easy to dismiss for others.
The Thrustmaster Ferrari 499P Centenary Winner Edition looks like exactly what it is trying to be. A premium, highly limited, endurance racing collector piece that also happens to be a very serious sim racing wheel. Between the carbon fiber construction, six-paddle layout, large screen, Le Mans Ultimate bundle, and numbered 499-unit production run, Thrustmaster has clearly built this around exclusivity as much as performance.
The only real question now is whether buyers see it as a dream product or an expensive indulgence. For the hardcore Ferrari and endurance racing crowd, I can absolutely see the appeal. For everyone else, the price is going to be the sticking point. Either way, this is not a boring release, and it is definitely one of the most attention-grabbing sim racing wheel announcements of the year so far.
