Steering Wheel Stripe

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Steering "Stripe" helps you race?

  • Yes

    Votes: 55 43.7%

  • No

    Votes: 29 23.0%

  • DS3 FTW!!!:sly:

    Votes: 42 33.3%
  • Total voters
    126
splitwindow
It's also handy at the strip when your car's doing a wheel stand at launch and all you can see out the front windscreen is sky.
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That's what the hole in the floor board is for, if you see the stripe you are going straight.

P.S. If you are doing a wheel stand, you can turn that wheel any way you want and the only time it matters is when you land (my buddy landed his crotch rocket with the wheel a little crocked, he was in the hospital for 3 weeks) but its not the fall that hurts, its the sudden stop at the end....
 
apey75
Not sure about that yellow stripe, but I find that using lambskin glovelettes adds panache and cuts seconds off my laptimes!!!

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I love how they have bows on the wrist! :lol:
 
It helps the most when driving cars that slip out a lot, I have a small piece of red duct tape in the center of mine. Sometimes when you go side ways you know that you're wheel is facing the right way up when you counter steer.

I use to end up going of the track or losing control again just because I accidently had the wheel facing to the side, this G25 makes it tough to tell without actually looking directly at the wheel.
 
Something rather obvious that I have'nt pointed out yet:
For those who have 900 degree steering (or if you're a millionaire and bought the thrustmaster 1600 w/1000 degree steering), and are an active drifter, you will realize that although the strip on your wheel is centered, you might actually need to turn an entire revolution of the wheel to get it centered due to the ammount of times required to achieve opposite lock for a drift. The FFB may point you in the proper direction, but by then you would have veered in a differnt direction, and broken a drift.

And, yes. I can't drift for:censored:
 
machate-man
Something rather obvious that I have'nt pointed out yet:
For those who have 900 degree steering (or if you're a millionaire and bought the thrustmaster 1600 w/1000 degree steering), and are an active drifter, you will realize that although the strip on your wheel is centered, you might actually need to turn an entire revolution of the wheel to get it centered due to the ammount of times required to achieve opposite lock for a drift. The FFB may point you in the proper direction, but by then you would have veered in a differnt direction, and broken a drift.

And, yes. I can't drift for:censored:
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:p

I think that you should be able to keep track of how many full rotations you've turned the steering wheel based on which direction the car is sliding or how many turns you made for opposite lock.

OP: Hey, it can't hurt, and I probably subconsciously use the stripe on my wheel when I'm doing hand over hand.
 
So, how do you make one. I would not believe that a simple duct tape will suffice, most probably it will spread glue residue all over your wheel and will get unglued every now and then.
 
Geopan973
So, how do you make one. I would not believe that a simple duct tape will suffice, most probably it will spread glue residue all over your wheel and will get unglued every now and then.
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Brightly colored electrical tape would be good. They come in lots of different colors. Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Black & White.
 

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