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Old September 4th 06, 03:07 AM posted to rec.autos.simulators
Bob Simpson
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Default Shifting with the wheel buttons

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


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