Again I had a very long period of inactivity in racing games/simulations in general and with regards to LFS but recently I started again with a few games and today I reinstalled LFS too.

Of course I will have to practice a lot again and for the moment I will only play offline/single player. I have a few questions however. I still didn't have the time to reread the manual and a quick search didn't give me the answers. I hope that someone can help me with it:

1) When I start a race or a lesson the engine of the car, which is of course standing still, is at the maximum rpm. When I hit the brake pedal it goes to zero, but as soon as I release the brake pedal it is at maximum again. I assume I did something wrong in the setup of LFS and probably with regards to the Controls, but I cannot find what. What could be wrong ?
2) Is it right that when I use automatic gears, I still have to use the shift paddle first to get the car driving ?

Thanks in advance for any help and sorry if these questions are a bit stupid.

1) You probably need to set LFS throttle/brake pedal to separate instead of combined. And you may need to invert them in the "Axes/FF" tab.

2) That's right, just as a real automatic car has Neutral, D and R gears.

Thanks for your reply.
They were already set to separate.
I have got it working now but,very strange,I had to assign the brake to the throttle axe and the throttle to the brake axe AND I had to invert both. FWIW, I have a Thrustmaster GT430 wireless cockpit which is basically a Thrustmaster F430, but without FFB and wireless.

Btw, another question: Are there settings for steering sensitivity ? I could not find them.

LFS does not have any adjustable setting for dead zone and sensitivity, you'd need an external program to emodify that (your driver or DXTweak for example).