The FGT, the F1 cars and the Cockpit View

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I drive most of the time with the bumper cam, however on some high powered cars,(LMP and the F1's) I always use the Cockpit View, it seems to me that I can feel the car more, any hint of oversteer can be felt and then I can correct it more easily, if however I drive with the bumper cam in a FGT I always spin, or I go too slow trying to keep control, do any of you feel the same? Do you think that if the FGT had a Cockpit View it would be easier to drive fast?
 
Use chase cam for the FGT. you get the same sense of control but you also can see the road & your competitors more clearly
 
Couldn't agree more. In the F10 at Suzuka which the bumper cam I can only manage a 1.30.5 or something, but I switched to cockpit view and did a 1.29.5xx

Cockpit view is definitely quicker for me in these open wheelers. The FGT really should be made premium but I guess the sort of TV-cam view will have to do.
 
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Couldn't agree more. In the F10 at Suzuka which the bumper cam I can only manage a 1.30.5 or something, but I switched to cockpit view and did a 1.29.5xx

Cockpit view is definitely quicker for me in these open wheelers. The FGT really should be made premium but I guess the sort of TV-cam view will have to do.
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Finnaly someone that agrees! It makes me think why with 2 PREMIUM F1 cars we got to drive that damn FGT.
 
I noticed if you switch from bumper camera/chase camera to Cockpit Camera View with any Premium cars, the picture is more blended and the true lightning effect was their to notice. Try it!
 
Cockpit cam shows you the wheels, so KNOWING you are hitting your apexes is a snap. Bumper cam (though it is actually at driver eye height), you don't KNOW where your wheels are. I still haven't figured out what and where this view is supposed to represent. Is it 'invisible car cam'? Is it 'hood ornament cam'? Who knows?

FGT, I drive from roof cam. You can see your wheels very well, the nose, all that good stuff... Can't drive a car from follow cam to save my life! Too arcade for me!
 
That's not true, unless you've got an F1 car with the world's most narrow track (distance between left and right hand side wheels). The wheels are usually on the edges of the screen if you want to tell where they are.
 
The dials SORT of show where your wheels are GOING to be, in a few ms. or so. But there is no way to imagine any sort of perspective IRL where your hood (bonnet) is that narrow.

It is a strange view, sort of a Steady-Cam held in front of an imaginary point attached somewhere to the invisible car. But WHERE it is attached, no-one knows (or has explained well, anyway).
 

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