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Originally Posted by ZDan
I tell you ~0.5 seconds shifts many times per lap in my 6-speed Cayman *was* painfully slow after driving my student's PDK. No amount of "technique" will make up for it, it's just lost time.
All I can say is I don't like "nannies", but I loved the PDK. WAY more than I expected to.
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I will need to try more modern PDKs, but the ones I’ve tried (Ferrari F430) and others, they felt clumsy and intrusive. I was the clumsy one, obviously unfamiliar with the paddle shifters and just yearning for a dam stick, but I believe there always will be a disconnect, similar to electronic steering and ride by wire. I appreciate modern technologies, as long as they don’t interfere with tactile feedback, and they don’t substitute my connection with the car, or then it begins just feeling like a video game.
I was thinking, would I want a PDK for the track if I could still have a manual transmission for the canyons and for a daily. Perhaps, if my intuition with the PDK matched my abilities with a manual, and I was hellbent on winning then perhaps.