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Originally Posted by Atmo
After years of M/T vehicles only, I'm really warming up to DCT's (not so much A/T's for shift lag vs. DCT's) for the ease of trail braking on track.
I'm inconsistent with that on an M/T car, fine with heel-toe but adding trail braking at corner entry is usually a crapshoot unless I'm driving an A/T and deploy left foot braking.
Plus how much fun would it be cracking off <100ms up/downshifts all day and never crunching gears or accidentally making a 5-4 downshift into a 5-2 and zinging my 2JZ to (calculated, the tach didn't go that high) 9K rpm?
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It kind of gets boring at the track to be honest. I've tracked my GTI with DSG trans. The rapid fire paddle shifts are cool for the first session or two (and undoubtedly it's better for laptimes), but eventually I missed working the pedals and shifter.
What it's great for though was just putting all my concentration on getting corner entry right. As you said, don't need to worry about heel-toeing while trail braking into corners. But the challenge is part of the fun right 😉