although i said i drive chase view and its my preferred view, since getting the polyphony 001 i have started using the bumper view just because the sound of the engine is much clearer then. (why they vary the sound between bumper and chase is beyond me, but thats another topic), and now i can drive well in both. since chase view in GT3 is so much worse than gt1 and 2 (very low and too close) i can see advantages of bumper view. but i find that chase view allows you to be much more precise in ur movements. you can cut corners so that you are only milimeters away from the dust etc.
as for wheels, my m8 lent me his wheel last night and i tried hooking it up. its a PC wheel (the ferrari thrustmaster one) but i thought i could get it to work with my PS2. but no. and my table is too big to enable the stupid clamp to fit on so i can't use it ony my pc either!!