ACC - Steering Wheel Shape

Just a small question for Assetto Corsa Compezizione.

Does the Blancpain GT Series cars all have these F1 kind of steering wheels or are there any out there with - I call it ''round'' or ''Streetcar'' kind of Steering wheel?

Cheers

 

Sadly a lot of cars are changing to the F1 style

 

I wonder if that is a case of reducing the weight or another thing?

 

If you don't drift the car and full lock is 540 or smaller, you don't need a full circle rim. Benefits are that it's obstructing as little as possible, both console view and when getting in/out. Nature of motorsports, if you don't need it, get rid of it. Weight is hardly a reason, most rims being carbon fiber today, but each gram counts says the engineers.

 

Alright, so in other words in blancpain we will only have F1 style of rims. So I can stay with this one

 

Certainly. I use the same one, it's probably the best value for money rim that Fanatec has to offer, and I used to be a GT only simracer.

 

Without the top half of the wheel the driver can sit lower. Benfits the centre of gravity.

 

also allows the dash to be more visable

 

For the sake of it I checked the rules and there are no specific rules to exclude any shape steering wheel, it's a design decision from what I gather.

 

From what I remember:
Formula style wheel: Audi, McLaren, Lamborghini, Mercedes, BMW, Nissan, Honda, Ferrari
Round wheel: Porsche, Aston, Lexus
Round wheel with the top cut out: Old Bentley, Jaguar
Not sure: New Bentley

 

Do you guys classify D-shaped wheels as formula style, because they are different?
And to my recollection this is the most popular GT wheel, e.g. Sparco P310.

 

Im amazed nobody has put in a gamepad, keyboard or the more advanced KB and mouse combo then.

 

If By D-shaped you mean flat bottom, I count them as round.

If the championship was managed by Codemasters, a gamepad would probably be faster than a steering wheel.

 

Round? I must have taken wrong geometry class.
https://goo.gl/images/5XK7mt

 

I don't care what geometry class you took, but to me this

Is a lot closer to this

Than it is to this



Do you not agree, Mr. Smartass?

 

The new Aston and Porsche will also have formula style wheels.

 

You can add the new bentley to that

 

Even if you personally don't care or just don't know, they are fundamentally different. If you drove traditionsl circular and D-shape P310 side by side, you'd see that.
To my recollection there are few main types of steering wheel shapes:
- Traditional circular
- D-shape
- C-shape with cut off top
- Butterfly, F1 style

 

Yeah, probably all cars released from now on will have a formula style wheel, I just didn't add them because they technically don't "exist" yet.

I didn't find any interior pictures from the new Bentley, but I guessed it would probably be a formula style.

 

Well. The Porsche does



https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1116688_2019-porsche-911-gt3-r-race-car-revealed#image=100651687



However. Since they'll be recreating both the 2018 & 2019 season we'll have both so some cars will have old school wheels and most of them will get the formula style wheels.