> I'm only saying that the statements made by those who use the roof cam about
> the benefits of using that view are sometimes a bit contradictory within
> themselves (i.e. when they say it's no advantage but then continue to give a
> list of advantages as a reason why they use that view), and that's what
> makes people want to reply to such messages. I am not talking about who's
> faster or anything, i.e. I have explicitely avoided making any statements as
> to what's 'better' or such.
> And my message was a bit tongue in cheek of course :-)
> Achim
> > So your saying roof riders will beat***pit drivers typically then is
> that
> > it?
> > Hmm, that's not what we have seen in our or other leagues, overall it's
> > pretty equal split amoung all views.
In the end, it doesn't really matter what ***in view everyone uses.
I've never seen any instance of a driver having an unfair advantage
over other drivers because of a specific view they use.
Even smoke is an advantage/disadvantage. In one way, you can see
***happening much farther away, but when you have to drive thru the
smoke, you're taking a big risk. If you don't have smoke turned on,
you can't see cars getting out of shape until you're right up on
them, and you sometimes can't slow down in time so you smack into
them.
I like the smoke thing (afterall, it adds a bit of e***ment and
illustrates cars in trouble very early), but roof view at least makes
me competitive on the road courses. It's also safer to drive that
way because you can see problems on the track in time to prepare for
some kind of avoidance manuever. On ovals it provides no benefit
unless my hood is pushed up and blocking the windshield.
I don't participate in races where***pit view is forced on because
I think it's a bit presumptuous on the part of the server admin (on
pickup races) to assume that everyone else wants to share in his
sense of "realism", and it's now very safe in an online setting
anyway.
I think Papy blew it when they didn't give admins a way to force the
driving aids off. To me, those settings create more of an advantage
than what view you drive from.