Shifting with the wheel buttons

I am new to this stuff. I have a Wingman wheel and the two pedals for brake and gas. The wheel has four buttons on the wheel. I have set up the controls so that I up shift with the right top button and down shift with the right bottom button. I have set the left bottom button to be the clutch. I've been using it that way but it occurs to me that it might be more natural to have the up shift on the right bottom button and the down shift on the right top button. I'm curious how others that use the wheel buttons for shifting do this. \Samson

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> I am new to this stuff. I have a Wingman wheel and the two pedals for > brake and gas. The wheel has four buttons on the wheel. I have set > up the controls so that I up shift with the right top button and down > shift with the right bottom button. I have set the left bottom button > to be the clutch. I've been using it that way but it occurs to me > that it might be more natural to have the up shift on the right bottom > button and the down shift on the right top button. > > I'm curious how others that use the wheel buttons for shifting do > this.

Convention is for the upshift to be on the right hand side and down shift on the left hand side. You should feel free to do whatever is comfortable though, with modern electronics drivers can map these to their preference anyway (Villeneuve had his Williams changed to have up and down shifts on one paddle rather than two.) Cheers Tony

There are two buttons on the back of that wheel too, which are the usual ones for shifting - upshift on the right and downshift on the left. But you can use any bottons that you want, of course. Tony Rickard wrote:

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> Samson wrote: > > I am new to this stuff. I have a Wingman wheel and the two pedals for > > brake and gas. The wheel has four buttons on the wheel. I have set > > up the controls so that I up shift with the right top button and down > > shift with the right bottom button. I have set the left bottom button > > to be the clutch. I've been using it that way but it occurs to me > > that it might be more natural to have the up shift on the right bottom > > button and the down shift on the right top button. > > > > I'm curious how others that use the wheel buttons for shifting do > > this. > > Convention is for the upshift to be on the right hand side and down > shift on the left hand side. > > You should feel free to do whatever is comfortable though, with modern > electronics drivers can map these to their preference anyway (Villeneuve > had his Williams changed to have up and down shifts on one paddle rather > than two.) > > Cheers > Tony

Like bob says, do what you like, but I am a motorcycle person, so I like the top button to shift UP below that one shift DOWN... I drive one handed a lot, and I hate chasing the button around the wheel, so I prefer a shifter. I have one, I just have not hooked it up in years... so your milage may vary, depending on sim. If I was back into serious road courses type sim, I get out my GPL shifter, other wise I just cycle up and down on shifter buttons. Bob Simpson enlightened us with:

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> There are two buttons on the back of that wheel too, which are the > usual ones for shifting - upshift on the right and downshift on the > left. But you can use any bottons that you want, of course. > Tony Rickard wrote: >> Samson wrote: >>> I am new to this stuff. I have a Wingman wheel and the two pedals >>> for brake and gas. The wheel has four buttons on the wheel. I >>> have set up the controls so that I up shift with the right top >>> button and down shift with the right bottom button. I have set the >>> left bottom button to be the clutch. I've been using it that way >>> but it occurs to me that it might be more natural to have the up >>> shift on the right bottom button and the down shift on the right >>> top button. >>> >>> I'm curious how others that use the wheel buttons for shifting do >>> this. >> >> Convention is for the upshift to be on the right hand side and down >> shift on the left hand side. >> >> You should feel free to do whatever is comfortable though, with >> modern electronics drivers can map these to their preference anyway >> (Villeneuve had his Williams changed to have up and down shifts on >> one paddle rather than two.) >> >> Cheers >> Tony