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Originally Posted by enigma
I cannot agree with this. SMG or MT you have to lift the throttle to shift. That alone can put some cars rright off the track. Don't try this in a tail happy MR car.
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BTW, one concrete example of the effect of unloading the rear end by lifting or shifting is the earlier Porsche 911s.
I drove my friends 964 variant of the 911 many years ago and I spun it a couple of times because I lifted mid corner.
Earlier 911s are reknowned as widow-makers because of this phenomena, aka, lift-throttle oversteer. It is induced as easily as lifting the throttle (let along trying to shift).
People like Hurley Haywood have been able to actual use this to their advantage (along with turbo lag).....they would go into a corner hot, understeer and then lift, inducing oversteer thus allowing the car to rotate....during the rotation, they would mash the throttle and by the time the car was pointed the right way, the turbo would be back on full boost....
But very few have Hurley's skills to pull this off.