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Chad Brown:
I was sitting at work and thinking about Michael F's offer to teach us some lessons (He does it on every Sunday, but he was offering to do it on a Saturday and not in a race setting...) This got me to thinking about situational awareness and making sure when you know there is someone next to you or you are clear to move onto another line. I thought about the look left right and back buttons I have mapped and how I rarely use the look left and right features and rely on my mirrors instead. This got me to thinking about how console racers tend to have better awareness due to the alternate views they tend to use. This then led to me wondering about the couple of drivers I know who use controllers and chase cams for driving. This ultimately led me to wonder how many of our drivers use each listed view.

Whew that was the long way around to getting to how this poll started. In any case, list what view you use to race in VRC and rF2 in general.

MikeeCZ:
I always try for as authentic as i can. So cockpit view with as little info on the screen as i can... Plus virtual mirrors because i cant see my mirrors on single screen. If I could, i wouldnt use the virtual ones

Simon J:
Always cockpit view for ages now since i got a wheel anyhow.
 but used to use bumper cam type with controller. took few day when i swapped prefer cockpit as cant see around you in bumper view plus cockpit feels right.

Tig_green:
In my opinion mirrors are insufficient for knowing what's around you, so everyone should map look left/right if possible. Also rear view mirror shows car further behind than they really are so I sometimes use look behind. VR would be good, but considering the price, size, current technical specs and beast machine you need to have, it's probably ~2-3 years away for me.

CJR33:
I use bumper cam for ages now, plus virtual mirrors.
I have the rear view mapped on my wheel and I use it quite often, as you said virtual mirrors does not help that much.

Also I have all hud information off except for gear, speed, revs and fuel level.

I easily get distracted by any more information (laptimes, splittimes or running order for example) than those above.
But I do have another button mapped to show and have a short look (wear level of tyres mostly) on it on a straight.

I am faster without those information, so I can focus more on driving and "feeling" the limit.

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