I haven’t tried using the shifter as a handbrake since WRC7, but the only way it worked was leaving the shifter in H-pattern and assigning a gear to the handbrake (I used gear 4). This freed up the paddles for shifting.
It wasn’t ideal and the brake was not progressive so I only used it for standing starts.
I use a separate TSS handbrake now, so I am assuming WRC8 controls are the same as WRC7. So it’s probably not possible.
MORE:
I could be wrong about using the H-pattern as a brake in WRC7. It’s been a while and I might be thinking of using this setting in SLRE. Sorry.
Last edited: Mar 23, 2020