American Cockpit Flip?

[sumbrownkid]

No. Post was made for humourous purposes.


[devil's advocate]
So why do single seater race cars have them on the right...
[/devil's advocate]

Wasn't attacking you Daan, sorry if you thought I did.

 

[daan]

Nearly all racing cars are made LHD, there is better coordination shifting with your right hand and clutch with left... doing both on one side of body can put you off balance when racing.. thats why even british race teams use LHD cars.

A race team will leave the wheel where it is. To use GT cars as an example, if a British team buys a Ferrari 575/430 GT, Maserati MC12, Porsche GT2, etc, they're not going to convert it to RHD. The Lister Storm and the TVR Tuscan were both RHD because they were originally RHD.

Looking at a few older photos from the BTCC, its only a recent thing British teams using LHD cars, as recent as the mid 90s there were still a lot of RHD cars (for example John Cleland's BTCC Cavalier was RHD)

Again, it depends on where the car was built. As an example the BTCC Vectra, and Astra before it, were LHD because they are based on the original German LHD Opal version. BMW is LHD originally and LHD in the BTCC. Thompson's Civic is RHD, as is O'Neill's Integra.

 

[ZANELE]

i actually like to drive car in that side as it is in the country it is built. Classic jaguar is just not the real thing if it has wheel on the left side
IRL i prefer lhd as we have right hand side traffic in finland.

In a way driving the car on the original side will enhance your whole GT experience and might even make you a better driver . Driving in cockpit veiw and having your shifter mounted on one side and the driver in the car shifting the gears on the other side could be very distracting for alot of people.

 

[.:KidNextDoor:.]

Yeah we do that here in Australia too, damn compliance. How do yellow/orange indicators make a car safer? What a load...

What's so wrong with ORANGE indicators?
Here in the UK we have never complained about it because it's such a stupid thing to argue about!! We have never had red indicators so we couldn't give one stinkie!!!