Yep, and I would definitely recommend facing the wheel parallel the ground-plane as well, as opposed to it being tilted up like that. Give it a try, that’s how I run mine and it works very well.
Cheers guys. I’ll give it a try.
I think there is valid reason why all wheel bases have slight tilt to the wheel angle, as they are meant to be desk mounted. However my own wheel in my rig is also slightly tilted, but a bit less than most of the wheel bases would be if mounted on a desk. Its more ergonomic to wrists; my wrist start to hurt if my wheel is more vertical.
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Yep. I know it’s to accommodate desks and seating position mostly, it’s just so difficult to get a decent angle then. But anyway, even a slight angle will be softer on the joints than running as high as OP has posted.
Hopefully the ergonomics works a bit better for him.
It’s only angled up 9 degrees - maybe just looks more severe in the photo. Puts it at a comfortable wrist angle. But more importantly, if it is straight, it puts it too low vs my desk chair. Hopefully at the end of the year I will get a rig and can optimise. For now, I have the wheel about 1 to 2 inches closer than before, combination of moving the wheel towards me, and the chair forwards. Any more will cramp my legs - this puts my wrist on the wheel with a small bend in my arm, resting it on top of the wheel, and probably 1 to 2 inches beyond the wheel if my arm is straight.
I think the side rests are physically (and maybe psychology) disturbing you. So you start to steer more from the upper body parts, you start to move the shoulder parts aswell. The larger the steering range the worse it gets
I hope for you that your chair is secured in some way and doesn’t move back. when you brake
I have the pedals mounted to wooden plank, then I have a GT Omega chair link bolted to the pedals. The chair feet drop into the pedals and lock in place.
It’s certainly possible, but I don’t think so - I try to conciously keep my elbows tucked in, and steer with my biceps rather than my shoulders. I need the rests there for normal working though.
Pretty sure there is a reason wheels are tilted even in daily driver cars. It is more ergonomic position otherwise you will be bending your wrists uncomfortably.
Not specifically related to tilt but nonetheless quite informative video from pro driver
The thing I don’t get with all of these videos or images people show for seat position - they say your arms should be 45 to 50 degrees, then show their arm at 90 degrees. Every video I’ve seen doesn’t seem to know the difference between 45 and 90 degrees. This image here is also a common one brought up on Reddit and so on, which shows 90 degrees and says 45 degrees.
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That image is like a meme already 
Some real seating positions, Fe F1, are taking body mass into consideration. So that the distribution of mass is at the lowest point and at the center. So it’s something you don’t have to really reproduce. It’s maybe helpful when using a motion platform
Must be learning geometry with Ms. Baerbock. 
Is this something only Germans understand? Or nobody at all?
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Triceps should do most of the steering. But anyway, like you said, you will be able to fix seating position when you get a rig.
@Andrew_WOT I suspect the tilt has much more to do with steering-rod angle and comfortable seats in production cars than best racing ergonomics. I suspect you will find real race-cars to have much flatter profiles for wheels, and very differing sets-positions, tilt-angles, the same for wheels.
My seating position is such that my heels are ~50mm higher than my bum, seat back tilted ~40deg from vertical, steering face perpendicular to ground and my eyes just looking over the top of my rim. So somewhere between GTE and LMP seating.
Below my approximate seating-position, only difference in my rig to this, is that my heels are perhaps 5cm lower. But rest very similar. And that way I can handle very high torque, as triceps is doing the pushing, and it takes a lot of load off the rotators.
Photo courtesy of Road&Track
My resume:
Half of the matchbox car is missing, your claim to be 105kg seems unreal. I measured your height: close to 3cm…
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Haha, I’m getting older, so I’m shrinking!
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So moving the chair forwards was a mistake as it puts me too close to the pedals with no option to move the pedals forwards. Cramps up my ankles and top of left foot.
But… I realised tonight that I run my chair recline the way I do because the neck cushion behind my head interferes with the VR headset, plus it’s comfy to recline when not racing. However, taking out the cushion and brining up the incline a notch brings me closer to the wheel with the chair repositioned back again for pedal comfort, and it provides noticeably more.supportnbehind my shoulders.
So I’m going to try running a few weeks like that, and with my FFB limited to 12nm in TD and 36nm is iRacing on the 992 Cup, likely more.in other cars, still need to experiment with other cars. If I can go a month or so without a repeat injury then maybe I’ll ramp up the FFB a little bit.
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