I have to agree, If you watch nhra on TV or ever been down in the pits and
look at the prostocks, sure they have 5 speeds, but they shift them with a
button and don't use a clutch. And about the whole deal with control
over an auto. We have a manual valve body in the trans of our truck. When
we get going down the track that thing isn't going to shift unless we take
the B&M and ratchet it into 2nd and so on. Never lost a race do to the
tranny shifting to soon, or to late.
Later
Scott Miller
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> From: Tony Mastres <mastres@id.ucsb.edu>
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: No sticks in sight!
> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 1997 3:18 PM
>
>
> >Okay, if we're gonna pick nits, go to any road race, circle track,
> >formula 1 race, etc, and tell me how many autos you see there. For
> >the ultimate in control, the stick is the only way to go....
> >
> >-Carl (dropping 20 lbs of portliness is worth .10 in the quarter)
> >Vidos
>
> Well Carl, at any F-1 race there wont be a "stick" in sight (except in
the
> parking lot)
> F-1 cars use a sequential shifter that is actuated by buttons on the
> steering wheel and NO clutch when shifting!!! In fact most top level race
> cars use sequential shifters for that bang,bang,bang shifting. The short
> lag you get from using a clutch would be deadly (race wise) in a lot of
> these situations. A notable exception would be NASCAR where thay dont
> really shift that much anyway. In their case a "stick" is much lighter
and
> easier to build,rebuild and maintain than an auto
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