I imagine this is sacrilege among the driving fraternity, but I prefer the third person view for driving games rather than the cockpit view. Partly because I can personally control the car better that way, because I find it more entertaining to see what the car is doing in real time as opposed to watching the replay of what I've just done, and in some ways it's more like real life because it affords a closer approximation of the peripheral vision you get IRL (not to mention head turning).
But in this timetrial I seem to be stuck with cockpit view >
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