Thanks for the reply Fongu, really appreciate your help.
Did my first race yesterday, starting from pole in Bahrain and here is my system for starting, which seemed to work fairly well, although I did lose the lead to Schumi as he made a better start than me.
- On the Grid I hit the F2 key to dis-engage the Auto-Gears (I'm using Auto-Gears due to an issue on my wheel).
- When the lights start, I start revving the engine in N.
- When the lights go out, I hit the gear button to engage first gear.
- I quickly hit the F2 key to re-engage the Auto-Gears.
This seemed to work pretty well.
As for the race, well, was a bit of a disaster. Did 100 percent race distance and finished in P9 after starting in pole. Finished 20 seconds off the pace of my teammate (Coulthard). Just had absolutely no pace compared to my qualifying. I guess I'm still getting used to GP4 after 5 years on F1 Challenge. But it was a very enjoyable race and counting down to the next one in Malaysia!