How did you accomplish this? I am still trying to get it to work. I assigned all the buttons but during racing only change camera view and look back works. I can't navigate the menus with the joystick either. Thanks in advance.
With motioninjoy 0.6.0004, under "profiles", choose the option "xbox 360 controller emulator".
This will make possible to use all the features in any game related to controls. Because most of titles today use xinput due to Microsofts objective to make Xbox and PC one big platform of their own.
About settings in F1 2011:
go to the button assign page and change one command (could be anyone).
By doing so, now youll be able to choose "override input...".
Then choose "steering wheel" and in the advanced options for wheel, set everything to 0%
This will make the controls way much responssible, jus like a real wheel. In the begginning you may struggle to get used to it but after that its very rewarding.
And tips:
When using a real xbox 360 controller, you've got to pu a bit of deadzone. 10% minimum, because the thumbsticks have a design flaw: they do not return to the neutral position when you release them. They lack in resistance.
But increasing the deadzone, youre gonna have to increase the steering sensitivity to almost 75% to have most of the precision and responsiveness back.
With the xbox 360 controller, the both trigger will use the same axe. Making impossible to play mos of the simulators (F1 2011 manage to reduce this problem of xinput).
To go around this, replace the Microsofts drivers eith others like XBCD.