01-22-2018, 01:12 AM
I'm not necessarily a supporter of making it mandatory. It can be immersion breaking for the 'keeping it real' fans.
If you are going to try to race as clean as possible, I think it is a no-brainer app for anyone on a single screen and it's probably just as useful on triple monitor setups as well. I would suggest if you are going to use it, there is no point hiding it away in your instrument cluster or in a corner of your screen. Front and center is my choice. After all, it is only visible when you need it. See attached for my racing POV.
To vouch for the effectiveness of this position, I have just finished the Mazda MX5 race with a 'bunch of crazies'
and I had an apparently mediocre result, 13th - nothing unusual about that for me.... But I actually finished 6th in the points haul with an incident free race. (I now know how you did it, Alex! 
)
If you are going to try to race as clean as possible, I think it is a no-brainer app for anyone on a single screen and it's probably just as useful on triple monitor setups as well. I would suggest if you are going to use it, there is no point hiding it away in your instrument cluster or in a corner of your screen. Front and center is my choice. After all, it is only visible when you need it. See attached for my racing POV.
To vouch for the effectiveness of this position, I have just finished the Mazda MX5 race with a 'bunch of crazies'
and I had an apparently mediocre result, 13th - nothing unusual about that for me.... But I actually finished 6th in the points haul with an incident free race. (I now know how you did it, Alex! )