Do you love sim racing enough to spend $2,499 on a steering wheel?

Sim-Lab has just released a new version Steering wheel $2499 The company claims it’s a replica of the wheels Lewis Hamilton uses while driving his Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team race cars. It’s a cool piece of hardware to look at but it’s a reminder that immersing yourself in simulation can be dangerous for your budget.

If that price tag has blown your mind, don’t waste your time buying it. You can’t just plug the wheel into your computer and race around the simulated streets of Montreal. Instead, it has to be attached to a wheelbase, which translates the steering wheel’s rotation and button inputs into a racing game while also providing force feedback. That can also cost you several thousand dollars, and one isn’t included with this wheel.

But what makes the new steering wheel from SimLab so expensive? First, it has been officially licensed by the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team, which has shared the computer-aided design data it uses to build the steering wheels for its multi-million-dollar cars. SimLab’s steering wheel is as close to racing as it can get without replacing Lewis Hamilton as the team’s driver when he moves to Ferrari next year.

The steering wheel body is also made from hand-crafted carbon fiber. This not only helps keep the weight down to 1,240 grams, but also ensures that it is extremely rigid, so the vibrations and resistance provided by the wheelbase are accurately transmitted to the players’ hands. The steering wheel will not squeak or bend while driving around a simulated corner at speeds over 150 mph.

The steering wheel is dotted with nine rotary dials, 12 buttons, two switches, carbon fiber shift paddles, antistatic silicone rubber grips, and 25 addressable RGB LEDs that provide telemetry data at a glance. And if that’s not enough data, the center of the wheel also features a 4.3-inch LCD display with data layouts that match what Mercedes F1 drivers see.

To most of us, it might seem like an extravagance, but for racing sim fans looking to recreate the real F1 experience, the only thing seemingly missing is race engineer Bono. Tell them “Okay, Louis, it’s hammer time.”