I can probably count on one hand the times I've had to downshift to first in the 17 years I have autocrossed.
Another example I was helping a novice who showed up in his stock S2000. His first run out he was about 15 seconds slower than me (he ran something like a 75 seconds). He came up to me asking how I ran such a good time in a car with 120hp vs his 240hp. So I rode along with him and he would shift for every corner. The course we had had about 30 turns and corners. At 1/2 second per shift per corner that came out to 15 seconds wasted upshifting and downshifting. Next run I told him to leave it in 2nd and just drive. That run came in around 62 seconds. He was amazed Statistics: Posted by CivicSiRacer — Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:27 pm
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