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      07-31-2007, 09:02 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Hans Delbruck View Post
Exactly. If you are going fast enough to warrant 6th gear, you wouldn't then downshift to 2nd gear in 8ms anyway, without over-revving it. Ideally you downshift thru every gear on the track. A more likely track situation would be topping out 4th gear, braking hard, and while you're braking you go thru 3rd, then 2nd.... Not 6th to 2nd...
Well, the way you put it sounds like manually shifting. If you still go from 4 to 2, you are on the same even-sided cluth, which is the issue. Obvoiusly travel isn't as far.
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