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Welcome to Heusinkveld!
Patrick (warehouse manager)
Life is full of coincidences. Niels Heusinkveld & Svend van der Vlugt met online in 1999 while racing Grand Prix Legends. And both turned out to live in the same city. And like Niels said: we’ve been friends ever since!
Together with a few other sim racers from Groningen they built the very first load cell pedal set in 2005. That pedal set evolved into the pedals you know today.
Curious about the story behind Heusinkveld? Let’s go on a trip down memory lane!
Innovation, development & consistent high-quality are top priorities for the Heusinkveld team. Durability is a key requirement for all materials. Every accessory, from the foot plate to the spring and rubbers to the bolt, has been thought through and tested by us down to the last detail.
With a team of 25 people we can proudly say all our products are „designed and assembled“ in our own production facility in the Netherlands.
We place a high value on satisfied customers, as they form the foundation of our success. This includes not only our requirement for excellent product quality but also our support, which is always available for all individual questions at info@heusinkveld.com.
Our products are used by both professionals and enthusiasts to optimize their training and reach excellence in races. This includes many teams and drivers active in series such as Formula 1, Formula E, Formula 3, Formula 2, Indycar and WEC.
With an idea, materials from a local hardware store, a load cell and good company we built our very first pedal set. We believe these pedals are the first force-sensitive simracing pedals ever to use a load cell on the brake.
These pedals transformed the experience, the immersion and allowed you to race using muscle memory. It would take another eight years (and a lot of redesigns), before the first set of Heusinkveld pedals was actually available to the wider public.
In the meantime we enjoyed racing the best racing simulation software available at that time such as Grand Prix Legends, Nascar Racing 2003, GTR, Live for Speed and rFactor.
The start of Heusinkveld as a company. The first few dozen pedal sets were built at Niels his attic, a friend of us built a webshop and off we went.
We made our first stock available just before the end of the day. When we woke up we were surprised to find that we almost sold out.
More products followed. Heusinkveld released the first ever force sensitive simracing handbrake using load cell technology as well as a compact sequential shifter.
Developments were also made with regard to the rigs to which we mounted our products. Heusinkveld pioneered the use of waterjet cut aluminium elements combined with standard aluminium profiles to create super sturdy sim rigs.
In 2018 we released the innovative Sprint pedal set. It allowed simracers to shape custom output curves for each pedal using our new SmartControl software. Pedal settings were stored on-board and you could now switch settings using profiles.
We also developed automated testing routines to verify functionality and reliability for this pedal set. Combined with a compact form factor and an excellent pedal feel, this made the Sprint pedals a cornerstone of simracing and they remain so up to this day.
We entered a partnership with Williams Esports and became an official supplier of their simracing gear. We’re proud that the partnership continues up to this day.
In this period we laid the foundation for further growth of the company. In a rapidly developing market, we expanded our headquarters with a dedicated production facility, new warehouses and new offices. This greatly improved our efficiency and allowed us to serve customers from all over the world quickly.
2021 saw the release of our Ultimate+ pedal set. This development of the original Ultimate pedals saw the vast majority of mechanical components redesigned as well as new electronics and software.
With an actual brake force of up to 140kg and an enhanced progressive pedal feel, the Ultimate pedals became a go-to product for the high-end simulator market and professional driver training.
We also entered a multi-year partnership with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Esports Team. Their world-class drivers were using Heusinkveld products to great effect in various Esports championships.
Further innovations were brought to the market. The MagShift Mini and Magshift were the first 2-way and 3-way adjustable sequential shifters available to simracers, featuring a patented magnetic shift system.
With the RaceCenter pedals we released a durable, cost-effective pedal solution specifically aimed at commercial applications such as sim centers.
Simracing is awesome! And we want create more awesome simracing products in the future. With a vastly expanded R&D team, Heusinkveld is looking forward to a next chapter of innovative simracing products.
