I had a nice racing sim setup and got rid of it for a pair of sitdowns. You think you will use the simulator, until you realize that you never do. That being said, not all sitdowns are created equal. I have a pair of Need for Speed carbon deluxes with 44" LCDs, and then dual boot them with Nascar arcade. They get played more than anything else in the gameroom (that isn't a console).

No one wants to race themselves. Even if you paired some racing sims, you have to allot time for setting up each system to actually form a match and set each game in the sim to match up the two sims. You will also find that a lot of sims that are console based don't even have a LAN option for matchups.

Dedicated racers are great at what they do- turn it on, pick a car and a track and go at it.

If I was to get into Sim racing right now, it would be via a VR headset.

i haven’t used my stuff in awhile but definitely want to get back into it. depending on what your looking to spend you can get a console setup with everything for under $1k. if you go PC and start looking at the direct drive wheels and nice quality pedals your looking at over $1k and that’s before you get a PC. iRacing is the big online racing sim. it’s pretty fun even though i’m horrible. i’ve done triple monitors and VR. VR is definitely cool and the way to go if you can handle it. triple monitors are nice in games that support it properly but require a more beefy PC to run it.