You've read my mind. I was thinking this same thing just last night.
Hopefully you can re map the H pattern shifter to allow for this, or even better still, it be an automatic map of a dog leg 'box if that's what the car used IRL.
Not that I have a shifter just yet, but do you have to change the setting when you swap cars or can you save a different setting for each car?
This is a general setting. So it can only be saved for all cars.
Thats a nice feature, thanks for the info.
I assume it will also work on the PS4 version, won't it?