Hey, obviously you've all tried auto-shifting by now, sucks huh? For any
new-comers to the game, shift manually. I was at Michigan racing a 387 lap
race when the Auto-shifting on my Nascar caused my engine to blow from
RPMs, this really sucks!
I've been racing for several months now and have almost always used
auto-shift. The only time my engine has blown is when I over rev in
4th. This happened at Martinsville with my gears set too tall (if I have
that backwards, forgive me).
My experience has been that for qualifying it is better to use manual
shift, but during a race I occasionally down shift twice in a row. A
nervous finger will do that sometimes, blowing the engine. I've found
very few times in a race that manual shifting would help me. The only
time I can imagine that it should is on restarts. I could use it there,
but for me it is too much of risk.
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http://www.card.unc.edu/~dmartin/klmracing.html
The nice this is if you have 1.2 you can switch between manual and auto
during the race. I think it is something like <control> S. Well, don't
quote me, but read the readme.txt
Kirk
I did not know this, but switching equipment between qualifying and
racing is unfair enough. Just my 2 cents.
> >My experience has been that for qualifying it is better to use manual
> >shift, but during a race I occasionally down shift twice in a row. A
> >nervous finger will do that sometimes, blowing the engine. I've found
> >very few times in a race that manual shifting would help me. The only
> >time I can imagine that it should is on restarts. I could use it there,
> >but for me it is too much of risk.
> The nice this is if you have 1.2 you can switch between manual and auto
> during the race. I think it is something like <control> S. Well, don't
> quote me, but read the readme.txt
> Kirk
http://www.card.unc.edu/~dmartin/klmracing.html
>>>>> >My experience has been that for qualifying it is better to use manual
>>>>> >shift, but during a race I occasionally down shift twice in a row. A
>>>>> >nervous finger will do that sometimes, blowing the engine.
NASCAR Racing maintains the concept of progressive engine damage from
over-revving (or over-heating).
What happened is that your gears were too short, and you were exceeding
8500 RPM during the race.
Just like a real engine, you can push it past the red-line, but at the
expense of engine life. 9100 won't blow your engine immediately, but
over time, will blow the engine. That's why when you run 10% races, you
can get away with shorter gears. Running 50% or longer, you need to be
careful with the revs your car sees.
It's not a failure of auto-shifting, but a failure of the car setup to
match the race length...
---Jim Sokoloff