Yes, you can, though you have to maintain a certain pressure on the pedal to maintain the speed.
Also, with certain games, a steering wheel is a must.
In NFS Shift and Shift 2 the cars are virtually uncontrollable with a keyboard as they spin out of control incredibly fast. The same is true with the GTR series.

@ragingloli Awesome, I definitely want one then, I’ve gotten back into driver san francisco and its fun being a cop goin with the traffic until you spot a car to chase, but keeping that speed is annoying.

@XOIIO
Just make sure that the angle of the wheel is nicely flat. I made the mistake of buying one that has a near 45° angle, and it is terrible.

@ragingloli Well there’s an add on kijiji for a microsoft sidewinder one for only 20 bucks, I’m really hoping it’s still available, I can’t afford a totally new one right now lol – of course I say that using my razer ouroboros and azer mealodon headphones lol

A steering wheel with pedals is also essential to do proper cornering, you know, braking before the corner, maintaining a constant speed through it, hitting the apex perfectly and then accelerating out of the corner.

@XOIIO
make sure it it is compatible with your OS. because according to wiki, it does not have driver support under vista and 7

@ragingloli Darn, i was going through threads and apparently it works, but I just saw that the feedback doesn’t work :/ I gues I’ll post a want add.

And yeah, corners are bound to be much better.

Btw, Grid 2 comes out this year, so you might want to check it out.

oooh, pretty.