[Andy Rohrer]

Assetto assigns the gearbox the gearbox type for me based on the car, so if it's an H-pattern car it doesn't let me use paddles to shift. I know that's a setting I can change, but after twenty years of heel and toe shifting, I'm pretty comfortable with it. If we were racing for money I'd use paddles and every driver aid I could get, though. I wonder how high participation would be in a mandatory h-shifter series; I would think it might be hard to learn proper shifting on a sim, since you can't feel the gears mesh or the clutch engage and most people in America drive cars with automatic transmissions and a lot of sim racers might not even be old enough to drive a real car.