- 1. Shifting Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Debbie Cunningham" <bartsmom@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:56:04 -0700
- Hi again! Let me preface this question by saying that I am in the process of "relearning" how to autox...I am generally NOT braking early enough and only starting to remember how to slow down early e
- /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00225.html (7,654 bytes)
- 2. Re: Shifting Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Debbie Cunningham" <bartsmom@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:02:54 -0700
- P.S. "last weekend" means Sunday at Mather...And my car is an AWD....Oh, and I am also fighting the wheel way too much and not unwinding when the pushing becomes a bear... And thanks to Jim Ochi for
- /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00226.html (8,394 bytes)
- 3. RE: Shifting Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Michael R. Clements" <mrclem@telocity.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:25:57 -0700
- In my experience, driving a '95 RX-7 with lots of top end power and not much low end torque, is that these cars will greatly exaggerate the time lost due to late braking. I think they're good "learne
- /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00229.html (8,704 bytes)
- 4. RE: Shifting Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:22:53 -0700
- Dear Debbie, I was watching your runs on course Sunday, and I thought it looked like you were driving very well. You were on the gas really early and you were carrying a lot of speed through the turn
- /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00239.html (8,113 bytes)
- 5. Re: Shifting Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Scot Zediker" <roadsterboy@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:23:00 -0700
- It depends in part on how well your car shifts, but more often than not downshifting will cost you time. That's been my experience, at least. Scot '91 CS Miata -- You're three times more likely to wi
- /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00242.html (8,468 bytes)
- 6. RE: Shifting Question (score: 1)
- Author: Chris Warner <jabrwoky@pacbell.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:53:59 -0700
- along with what Katie just said, with the AWD, "wide" means at least 2 wheels in the marbles:) also, try to time your turbo lag so that it hits right past the apex. Chris Warner Dear Debbie, I was w
- /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00244.html (8,589 bytes)
- 7. Re: Shifting Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Debbie Cunningham" <bartsmom@mindspring.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:13:40 -0700
- Thanks a lot Katie for the advice and the vote of confidence! (I have to admit I have been having a bit of a "crisis of faith" in my driving ability lately :~). And thanks to everybody else who poste
- /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00245.html (9,002 bytes)
- 8. Re: Shifting Question (score: 1)
- Author: James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:17:03 -0700
- downshifting shouldnt cost you time because you do it under braking. up shifting costs you because you are coasting when you could be accelerating. i try to shift on corners where i cant use full thr
- /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00249.html (9,170 bytes)
- 9. Re: Shifting Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Debbie Cunningham" <bartsmom@mindspring.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:21:12 -0700
- Brat! ;~]
- /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00251.html (7,176 bytes)
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