Quote from bbman :

Hold on, first you tell us the advantage of perfect shifting is negligible, now you say that every bit - however small it might be - is important... What's it gotta be now?

I re-read my posts, and couldn't find where I have said that it's unimportant. The better the shift (the speed of the shift, the timing of the shift against revs) the less time you lose. The difference between a poor shift and a great one is very small, but it's still time to be saved.

No point finishing 2nd by one second when you could win by 2 seconds...

Quote from tristancliffe :

Shifting 0.2 seconds late probably costs in the region of 0.0000001 seconds per lap.

Added up, that doesn't make even one thousandth of a second over the course of a 24h race...

Quote from tristancliffe :

[...] like shifting better (0.05 seconds per lap), [...]

Now it's 5 hundreths per lap all of a sudden...

Quote from tristancliffe :

No point finishing 2nd by one second when you could win by 2 seconds...

And finally it's worth 3 seconds over the course of a race... Come on Tristan, I know you can do better than that - pick one and stick with it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyJItQYPXQc&fmt=18


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