I've noticed the cockpit view makes the windows and driver invisible but the hood view makes the windows visible again. Can this view be locked?

Yes it is, I’ve included this edit in a few of my mods.
I’m pretty sure it’s the value adjustment of “near” in the camera file in game/settings.
Cockpit is camera 2
You’ll have to view it in bag edit to see and adjust, I think I set to 10 to see bars and window glare etc
For example if you set it to max you see the driver too!!!
Default uses less to hide everything.
Hope not helps

Thanks man. I've sort of worked something out. There's a setting for LOC level that I think culls the windows and driver from view. I thought it was active for the driver but not the windows in hood view when I pasted the "cockpit" values in there but it was just the near culling and being a smidge further forward that stopped the driver being rendered. You can still see the helmet when the car gets deformed in a certain way.

A bit of tweaking has pretty much stopped it but it would have been nice to be able to set and unset the objects to be culled at first person level, like the wheel and driver but not the windows.