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Message: Remember, this was not me shifting - it was the car (PDK, Sport+). It chose to go to 3rd, then 1st.

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Changed By: grant
Change Date: May 16, 2012 08:25AM

Remember, this was not me shifting - it was the car (PDK, Sport+). It chose to go to 3rd, then 1st.

That was part of the point of the story.

Note also this is a 7-sp PDK with quite a short set of early gears, but it was loping (relatively speaking) in 3rd.

Now, on that note, we have a few autocrosses that even get my 5-sp 986 into 3rd. I max out at about 73 mph in 2nd gear. When we run the Zone 1 finals on air force runways, we get > 80. Our fastest tracks with SCCA at Giant's Stadium are debatable. You cna use 3rd, but is the shift worth it? To me, no.

Grant

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Author: grant
Date: May 16, 2012 08:23AM

Remember, this was not me shifting - it was the car (PDK, Sport+). It chose to go to 3rd, then 1st.

That was part of the point of the story.

Note also this is a 7-sp PDK with quite a short set of early gears, but it was loping (relatively speaking) in 3rd.

Grant