Quote from Hankstar :

I'm sure Casey Stoner doesn't give a rat's arse if he's doing 335 or 334 kph down the front straight of wherever, as long his pitboard says "-10 Rossi".

I wouldn't agree to that really as knowing your speed down a straight is pretty vital if you ask me, if you're not doing what you think you should be doing you'll know that the last exit wasn't as fast as it could be. A few M/Kph down a straight might not seem to matter when you're fighting for 2/3 seconds but when you get down to tenths and such, every extra bit of speed you carry on the straights makes a world of difference.

+1 to the idea if its an option but I still rely on the speedo when I'm racing in every car I drive, so I don't want it to be forced or have a massive blanker plate where the speedo should be (I use analogue) so no Digi stuff!

Quote from Rooble :

I wouldn't agree to that really as knowing your speed down a straight is pretty vital if you ask me, if you're not doing what you think you should be doing you'll know that the last exit wasn't as fast as it could be. A few M/Kph down a straight might not seem to matter when you're fighting for 2/3 seconds but when you get down to tenths and such, every extra bit of speed you carry on the straights makes a world of difference.

Rev counter (or your ears if you're not tone deaf) not good enough for you on a straight? the units of measurement are a little arbitrary, are they not?

That seems to be more distracting than helpful to the majority; might end up waiting to hit x speed and miss your braking point or something.

I'll add that you should be able to tell how good your corner exit was on the corner exit.

Quote from wark :

Rev counter (or your ears if you're not tone deaf) not good enough for you on a straight? the units of measurement are a little arbitrary, are they not?

That seems to be more distracting than helpful to the majority; might end up waiting to hit x speed and miss your braking point or something.

I'll add that you should be able to tell how good your corner exit was on the corner exit.

No the rev counter isn't 'good enough' for me to determine my speed, I wouldn't look at the speedometer if the revving engine gave me the information I want would I now?

You're obviously part of the majority that finds it distracting, but I find it useful as do many others in my team. Plus I never know if the sector I'm driving is good until the timer tells me it's good, just feeling fast doesn't ultimately make you fast but I'm sure you already knew that.

Quote from Rooble :

No the rev counter isn't 'good enough' for me to determine my speed, I wouldn't look at the speedometer if the revving engine gave me the information I want would I now?

You could just have an area in the garage setup screen, near the gear ratios, that displays the top speed of each ratio.

Quote from Breizh :

You could just have an area in the garage setup screen, near the gear ratios, that displays the top speed of each ratio.

That wouldn't be accurate either, tyre wear and wind downforce/drag and such will change that.

Simple solution would be to look at the thing that's designed to tell you your speed!

Quote from Rooble :

That wouldn't be accurate either, tyre wear and wind downforce/drag and such will change that.

As would slip ratio. Handy I made a program that takes all that into account then, no?

Quote from Rooble :

Simple solution would be to look at the thing that's designed to tell you your speed!

That doesn't take any of those in account (anymore), though.

Real racing drivers look at the rev counter. You know how fast you're going relative to before by comparing your rpm trace to the previous lap(s). Simple. The speedo is just another number, equally useful, equally meaningless really.

Racing cars don't have them (in 99% of cases), so there's a good argument that LFS shouldn't have them in the race cars.

And at the same point on track, drag, tyre slip and whatnot are pretty much the same lap after lap, so they can be ignored. It's a pure comparison.

I have nothing against it as long as it remains optional.