Oh, I enjoy those old autosport videos very much too. For me, however, from a driver's standpoint, if I go to the track I prefer to make the shifting as least disruptive to the driving experience as possible. There's a large portion of the population that romanticize the past (manual shifting F1 cars, Group B cars, "that's when drivers were really good"). In my opinion, reality is that those cars are gone for a reason - evolution has left them obsolete. The drivers are gone because they have retired, but most would not have stood a chance against modern drivers either (just some anecdotal evidence - in a recent episode of F1 Legends, Hakkinen is quoted as saying only a third or so of F1 drivers in the 90s took the professions seriously, as opposed to 100% today).
Now I digress. Anyhow, I understand for some if is the other way around, and shifting is a large part of the driving experience. That's terrific.
I don't feel very smart for getting into these posts. I usually refrain for the very reason that everyone has their own preference and there is really no point beating a dead horse to death.
Everyone's entitled to an opinion. Inevitably, what happens, is that people make silly comments like "an auto is a land barge", or something along those lines, and the discussion deteriorates.
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Originally Posted by _hollywood
This right here marks the death of motorsports, i can see maybe a dogbox transmission where you use a clutch for first and then bang the rest, but we are talking about a 25k 200hp toyota/subaru...not a 15 million dollar f1 car that gets a new engine after every race....
I am building an auto supra so i get the whole shifting quicker thing but not for this car, watch the old best motoring vids, they are not shifting into D4 and sliding all around, no, they are doing crazy footwork, smashing gears and having fun, thats what this car is about.  |