Tim
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Tim Wheatley
"Yellow menacing helmet in the mirror"
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IGPS Driver - Ferrari Challenge Driver - NTT Participant
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M
Hi Meiji,
I agree with your idea about compromise in controllers. There is no
perfect wheel yet, unless I sell my children into slavery to finance
one. (--and sorry, I can't justify spending more on my wheel than on
my computer, software, desk and chair. :-)
I disagree with your statement about the Logitech pedals. I have had
the Logitech FF wheel for about 5 or 6 months now, and I'm extremely
happy with everything, including the pedals. Overall, this is -- by
far -- the best of the "off-the-shelf" wheels that I've tried, and
I've tried quite a few, FF and nonFF.
Would I like a little longer throw in the Logitech pedals? Yes. Do
they work well the way they are? Yes. Do they "suck?" No way. I've
seen a couple of wheels with better, or longer, throw in their pedals,
and I've seen many wheels with much worse pedals.
IMHO,
Brett
M
HTH.
http://members.xoom.com/IanHill http://members.tripod.com/~IanHill
(Mainly F1, some GP2 stuff though)
: As far as F1 drivers are concerned, AFAIK most drivers either
: 1) Use the left paddle for clutch and the right for gear changes - pull
: towards you for change up, push away for change down. My wheel only has one
: paddle that pushes both ways so I base my style on this (no clutch tho).
: 2) (If using a foot clutch) right paddle change up, left change down.
From what I know, the only F1 driver who uses a two-way right
paddle for shifting is Jacques Villeneuve. Everyone else uses the
right-up left-down shifting arrangement regardless of whether the clutch
is on the floor or on the wheel.
Of course, my information is from 1996 so things may have changed
since then!
Martin
Nigel Mansell RIP!
M
I think in F1, the most common is "right up, left down" - I remember
when, Makinnen (sp?) had a go in an F1 car last year he managed to
lose it by changing gear down instead of up - apparently rally cars
tend to work the opposite way so T.M. said at the time. (Tho' I thought
rally cars had a stick shift not paddles - but I'm not a big fan of rallying
so I can't really comment).
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Richard G. Clegg Only the mind is waving
Dept. of Mathematics (Network Control group) Uni. of York.
www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html
