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Originally Posted by ard
Ouch, sorry to hear that - the "money shift" is always on my mind, too.
I recently ran across some pretty useful "shifting" instructions from UUC, maker of various short shift kits ( UUC Motorwerks • short shifting techniques), which are intended to prevent the money shift.
I have been practicing, and at first it seems a bit awkward, but the logic of switching hand positions makes a lot of sense in avoiding the wrong gear. When you "backhand" the shifter in gears 3 - 5, it is pretty difficult to accidentally go 4->3 instead of 4->5.
I don't have sufficient practice with this technique to say that it works well "under pressure" like at the track, just FYI.
HTH |
This is actually good advice - there's nothing quite like snap-rolling your car in the middle of the front strait by putting the car in 2nd rather than 4th at 75MPH. When going from "top" to "bottom", rotate the wrist counter-clockwise to what in my youth we called the "French Grip". This puts some "away" pressure on the stick naturally, and you won't accidentally pull it into 2nd and grenade the motor.