Racing Preparation: Proper Shifting

[FiresprayXL]

I never knew that either

[raspad67]

I never knew that.

[aussiearu]

What about my Mini? The shifter is so hard i cant change gear unless i'm using the entire hand.

[maersklandro]

How are the synchronizers supposed to do their job without some friction?

How do you get friction without contact force?

Yeah, leaning on the shifter all the time is bad.

[DLEE503]

"Especially when people get really excited about shit...."

[TheShikhan]

@Exutus When it reaches your bones, it will hurt.

Miss you. Always watching.

[PAVONEZORZ]

"Especially when people get really excited about sh-"

Sh...what?

Shitting? Shooting up? Shouting? Shhh, we're in a library?

so confus

[handbrake17]

I'm trying to tell my aunt this lol

[god5peed]

no matter how many proper videos are out there, they're still gonna do a Paul Walker on their cars...

i like that you emphasize on the fact that you guide the shifter into gear rather than grabbing hold of it...

any by the way, joeracer is an idiot...drag racing/traffic light gran prix is for idiots who only know how to mash the accelerator...

[WHITEVOLK8814]

@Exutus Ha, ha, ha, and you heel and toe downshift? That way the syncros will not suffer.

[colinlucas]

The clutch itself should not affect the stiffness of the shifter, only the clutch pedal.

[steveocw]

@colinlucas not the clutch pedal the pressure plate

[vietboiracer]

What if you have like a stage 3 racing clutch then youll need more then 3 fingers to move that

[WHITEVOLK8814]

I have a question, is it good to jump some gears, I mean go from 5th to 3rd without passing through 4th?? What´s the point of "jumping" gears? Is it possible upshifting?

What´s bes,t do it in order, why?

Thank you.

[MadCat360]

You can jump to any gear from any gear.

Going from say 5th to 2nd would simply require more time on the clutch and a larger blip of the throttle.

A lot of drivers skip gears as opposed to "rowing" simply because rocking your foot back and forth between the brake and the gas upsets braking efficiency. That and many cars have very short stopping distances - going from 6th to 5th to 4th to 3rd to 2nd in the few (3-4 or less) seconds it takes fast cars to stop is a real tasker. I skip personally.

[WHITEVOLK8814]

So in racing, it´ll be good to do it with heel and toe so you don´t loose the revs.

I doubted because I´ve always seen racing drivers go through every gear, but because they use to have secuencial gearboxes and you can´t skip gears.=)

[MadCat360]

I would say probably most racing drivers do go through each gear sequentially on an H-pattern gearbox.

The reason being that when the car is decelerating, the engine has a dragging force on the driven wheels known as "engine braking". Naturally this has an effect on the brake bias setup of the car. If the brake bias was set so that in neutral all 4 wheels would lock at the same time, threshold braking with the clutch engaged and high the in rev range would lock the driven wheels...

[MadCat360]

... and it would decrease braking efficiency, since then you have to compensate for the extra braking force on the driven wheels by braking less.

The opposite is true. If you set the car up to brake most efficiently with some engine braking then letting the revs drop too low by skipping gears would also decrease braking ability. So most drivers hit each gear on the way down to properly distribute braking force front and back.

[MadCat360]

There's reasons for and against both techniques. It's just a matter of recognizing which one will work better for your own talents.

[WHITEVOLK8814]

Okay, so I think going through each gear is best in racing.

Skipping gears when downshifting makes you loose revs and braking efficency since you don´t use the "engine brake" and you lock the wheels and upshifting, obviusly makes nosense.

Thank you very much, it´s been useful.

Cheers!

[Chin07126]

any more good tips????????? i would love to hear them all! and if so i might just subscribe. thanks.

[ScorpiosRevenge1]

This guy knows what he's talking about..the shifter is there to SHIFT gears, not to be stroked and jerked off as you drive.

[besman007]

@ScorpiosRevenge1: ...but what if my chick does that to it, she sat on it once :P

[Robcicle]

what if you have a cable tranny.

your trannys all syncronized.

[colinlucas]

All road racing. You can see my other videos at youtube/colinlucas

[colinlucas]

This is how I've shifted for racing for ten years. I don't remember missing many shifts.

[motorolaq9m]

haha i just watched your vid and then i looked under related videos and quick shifting by bizzyboy does the exact same thing u said not to do!

[sunnylotto]

Haha, you should drive a WRX, there is nothing "delicate" about the gearbox

[0FlyingSwede0]

@sunnylotto dont even talk, i have a 25 year old audi 4000 and i can shift delicately lol

[zVlPERz]

@sunnylotto Ive never driven one and am thinking of getting one, how is it different from any other gearbox?

[sunnylotto]

@zVlPERz

Wow, surprised they still send me updates for 2 year old posts. WRX 5 speeds are very notchy. It's not bad, but it doesn't feel like a regular m/t. 1st and reverse is a bitch to find when cold lool

[RingerRacing]

you should talk about backhanding the third to fourth shifts

too many people grab the shifter like you expect and grab 2nd year when trying to upshift from 3rd to 4th

my last track day someone melted an 08 911 s motor by doing the 4rd to 2nd money shift and i almost ruined my m3 last year by not doing the back hand 3rd -4th shift

[BIGADEBANKS]

wat car is that

[colinlucas]

Its a 2003 Audi A4 3.0 Quattro.

[aberrari]

Thanks for the tip

[raymondbertrand123]

kool