AUTO-SHIFTING IN NASCAR SUCKS!

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. IWCC 3 pnts KK KK LL MM MM c/o David G. Martin 3rd rook KK KK LL MMMM MMMM 919-966-5203 KK KK LL MM MM MM MM KK KK LL MM MMM MM RRR AA CC III N N GG KKKKKK LL MM MM MM R R A A C C I NN N G G KK KK LL MM MM RRR AAAA C I NN N G KK KK LL LL MM MM R R A A C C I N NN G G KK KK LLLLLLLLL MM MM R R A A CC III N N GGG 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.

Quoted text (12 lines)

> >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

KK KK LL MM MM c/o David G. Martin KK KK LL MMMM MMMM 919-966-5203 KK KK LL MM MM MM MM KK KK LL MM MMM MM RRR AA CC III N N GG KKKKKK LL MM MM MM R R A A C C I NN N G G KK KK LL MM MM RRR AAAA C I NN N G KK KK LL LL MM MM R R A A C C I N NN G G KK KK LLLLLLLLL MM MM R R A A CC III N N GGG http://www.card.unc.edu/~dmartin/klmracing.html

What gear where you in? Because if it red-lines in fourth, the engine will still blow, regardless if you are using manual or automatic (not like I tried it...)

>>>>> >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 think you guys have it backwards? I *think* what he means is that sometimes he hits the downshift key two times *at once* sorta. Instead of going from 4th. to 3rd. it would take him from 4th. to 2nd.. The replies I've heard so far don't relate to his post (I think). Just trying to clear it up :-)

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