yes. cars should only go orange when they are a lap down, turning orange on the same lap is pointless, imho.

Quote from sgt.flippy :

Cars in front of you are yellow, cars behind are orange...

And on the second suggestion, I want the opposit. I want a clear shift+f screen, but still get the laptimes/splits and flags on my screen.

This option is available, it's under flag option in the MISC menu.

Quote from Blowtus :

yes. cars should only go orange when they are a lap down, turning orange on the same lap is pointless, imho.

And how would you then differentiate the guys who are under a lap behind and the guys who are coming to lap you.

Seriously, I've seen so many differnet ides for the color coding, we even had a thread on it in the test patch forum, but all ides presented were either not well thought trough or consisted of 10 different colors...

The huge 'blue flag' isn't enough? Fair point though.

Quote from PLAYLIFE :

And how would you then differentiate the guys who are under a lap behind and the guys who are coming to lap you.

Seriously, I've seen so many differnet ides for the color coding, we even had a thread on it in the test patch forum, but all ides presented were either not well thought trough or consisted of 10 different colors...

I think it's very simple:

Cars in front = Yellow
Cars behind (same lap) = Orange
Cars behind (1 or more lap down) = Red (or another color)
Own car = Green
Car AI = Blue+Yellow/Orange/Red (according to the situation)

So, 5 colors and everything is clear when you take a quick look at the map.
In the current situation, you have to look on the map and on the stats with the positions. It would be very nice to see someone coming and know you don't have to push to the max to keep ahead of this person.

Don't know if it's possible with the current system, but a little number on the orange cars indicating how many laps they are behind would be nice (0=same lap, 1=one lap, etc.). Same would go for the cars in front of you, although I think it's not really important.

Quote from Davo :

This option is available, it's under flag option in the MISC menu.

Thanks, I said this before somewhere but nobody told me then

Quote from bobvanvliet :

I think it would be more convenient and less of a clutter to mark this next to the positions list, so just a bracket with +1 or -2 or something next to the names.

Cheers,

Edit: I fully agree that we need to know who's how many laps in front/behind, though! Nothing worse than doing a splash and dash and then finding out that was your last lap and you were actually 2 laps down in stead of 1

I fully agree with this...