Shifting: Don’t Be a Shift Knob! - The Racing Line Ep. 3 

+Daniele Dal Col So many dad jokes

+Daniele Dal Col Randy is pure gold.

***** what's a narc?

+Daniele Dal Col probably means the narcotics investigators (undercover cops that deal with illegal drug activities) otherwise known as the DEA in the US

Daniele Dal Col

in a hedge somewhere. :)

+George king lmao! Indeed...

+Furuya Go In a ditch. From heel toeing incorrectly.

+Daniel Maia Head to Head are the only reasson I sub this channel...

+Chrstian “Driver” mrclep I actually like these videos with randy, they are very informative and entertaining. But it must be said that MT has been seriously slacking this year on its ignition and Head2Head series. Those where the only reasons why I started watching them. It's their bread and butter, last 2 years were great......What happened this year? Hoping next year will be back to the good stuff.

+Daniel Maia I also like Dirt Every Day.

Let's just get along and agree that MT ROCKS!!

+Daniel Maia TRL, Dirt every day, Ignition, roadkill ... they're all awesome! MT just rocks, period.

+NoSpace4Bass Welp, he's the professional

+NoSpace4Bass welp, dem lap times seriously gud

+PT111111 you have friends that don't know how to drive manual?? even when I've chosen my GF i made sure she knows how! -Friend must be SWAPPED.

David MuscleGuy I can't complain really, they're good people and they can't drive my car. Win-win situation for me. :)

+David MuscleGuy Swap friend, replace with SR20DET

+PT111111 Lol dodge charges for a manual now, what a fuckin joke, charging for a manual in a muscle car.

mkelebay Are they serious? They're charging more to put in a simpler, cheaper gearbox to produce in their car? LOL

I was abou to type dat XX

Alton Brown as well?

Pobst still has yet to do a song and dance about Automatics being as fun as manuals. Once he does that then, and only then; is he the Bill Nye of Racing.

Big fact.

Its not Bill?

Lol Yes, I didn't notice it myself.

Yeah, seem to be a lot of gci in these clips as well. wtf is going on.

lol this is how i always comment too

I have a Tahoe lol

cruze that is a manual here lol. love my car tho

gamercalvin i wouldnt mind anew one

DoobieR mines a 2011, only 23,800 miles on it.

gamercalvin mines 02 it has 201,700 miles on it lol

Carbon Is Initial D a chiropodist then?

Haha it's heel toe not heal toe

now you need to learn to spell. heel*

omg y'all dumb, he said that he learned how to heal toes because he watched Initial D, a medicine anime

@@Furo6448 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Definitely heard some bangerang

FUCK THE BABY!

+allcarguy dude, is the car OK?

+chp1593 rip in peace= rest in peace in peace LOL

+ST3ADYxKICKS don't try to understand, it's just a shitty internet joke.

+chp1593 that is sick.

same here, what kind of car is it? obviously a caddy, but what kind?

+Cloud Crossy so...you have a manual...

+Will James Agree with Cloud Crossy. Don't think you're better than everybody just because you know how to drive a manual. I drive a Mini Cooper S ofc with manual, that's so easy to heel 'n toe that I do it without thinking, even in traffic. But I'm gonna buy another car, just for the auto. Because when you just have to drive from one place to another, through traffic or on the highway, the manual has zero advantages. If you like clutching constantly in traffic then help yourself, just don't come tell me I can't drive just because I like to relax. I am 10 times faster than you.

+Will James Or the steadily increasing number of people coming home from war missing a limb. Because if you haven't got 2 legs and 2 hands, driving a stick isn't really an option.

That makes no sense whatsoever. But to each their own.

+Cloud Crossy Dude chill

+Durodes Duvo no this is better than top gear.

+seitaneddy Or to disabled people who physically can't drive manual.

kirbyswarp You could probably be right, but... if someone is disabled, or has physical problems, maybe.. they shouldn't drive at all.. I'm just saying, Taxi, Uber, whatever, there are safer options, than putting a physically challenged person behind a wheel...

seitaneddy Some people are just missing one foot or have a prosthetic leg.

kirbyswarp Precisely my point! I don't know about you, but I wouldn't feel safe stepping into a car with one legged driver... And I really don't wanna sound like a douche...

seitaneddy I guess, but there are enthusiasts who lose legs. Let them drive.

+J - DAWG Bullshit. Even the worlds best drivers make mistakes and crash their car.

J - DAWG Yes they do Rally drivers are some of the most excellent drivers in the world and every once in a while, they'll do it. Hell, everybody who drives a manual has done it.

You're insane, ain't got no brain!

huh

+maxpowers3732 You want to keep the revs in the powerband. If you went from 4-2, say, you'd have to let the revs go down more in order to shift into second without over revving the engine. Also, this would require more of a blip. Its easier to just heel toe a couple times.

+maxpowers3732 because the speeds of the gears aren't equal if you went 4th to 2nd it would cause the car 2 lurch (like at 2:32 ) because the 2nd gear syncros don't have enough time to work hence why making the trans and engine speeds match in downshifts is so important it has nothing to do with the power band.

+SANIC No, you're wrong. The synchros will gladly go from 4-2, the transmission can skip gears easily. This is actually what allows people to "money shift" and over rev the engine. If you incorrectly match revs when you de-clutch you will shift lock, locking the rear wheels up. You don't shift from 4th to 2nd on track because it wouldn't make sense to do so with an H pattern, plus it's just easier to rev match into each gear one gear at a time than do one big rev match (you get the benefit of engine braking as well). Of course gears 4 and 2 aren't spinning at the same speed, that's what the synchros are for. But the same can be said about consecutive gears, like 4 and 3.

Brendan Boutilier i really don't have time to explain why ur wrong. just google it and save me the time K thanks.

SANIC :facepalm:

No, this video is exactly what you are NOT looking for when LEARNING how to drive a manual.

Saša Barišić what?

Well, besides basic shifting, this counts as an advanced driving technique so to say. You're certainly going to fuck up if you go straigt to copying this video if you've never driven a manual.

+2juicedforme + Saša Barišić Sasa is correct, this is for advanced manual transmission driving. You must start with basic clutch engagement, and add this to your training as you learn the fundamentals.

or leave ur sister alone...

+GT6SuzukaTimeTrials i'll give you $100000000000 if you'll drive automatic. never mind, you don't want it anyway...

Reinturtle I meant to say that you couldn't pay me enough to give up driving manual transmissions.

GT6SuzukaTimeTrials i get it, just messing around :P

+GT6SuzukaTimeTrials Or if you had to actually drive somewhere, like 30.000 miles a year like I do, you couldn't pay me enough to drive a manual. I am a racecar driver that races an H-pattern manual BMW 3-series GT4 racecar, but on the road, what's the point??

M AR but man, they dont even make manual when the price comes to 200k or above. The more expensive(the more performance) the less pure manual. So your current opinion is only suitable for normal cars. Its still respectable for people or racers who know how to drive fast with paddle shifter.

Shepherd Yannis but not every cool car is over 200k, there's a lot of sweet rides over 30k

haha I do the exact same thing. I just cant do auto and get upset when I see a monster of a car in an auto.

lol then ur immature... basic respect for what the owner prefers and chooses to do with their own car is the key to keep car culture alive, u can have ur own opinions, but don't force it on other people, do it on ur own car and be happy with it.

Happy Bear Absolutely. Real car enthusiasts respect another owners car regardless of taste. You don't see anyone driving manual on racing circuits for a reason. It's all Dual Clutch. Why would you want to shift when a computer can do it faster then a human can blink?

+Montenegro Montenegrin spoken like a true Montenegrin :P

And it's not surprising that you can't spell.

+Shpendi Azizi LOL :)))

True. I'm American and I can't agree more.

+Ken Porter Very surprising indeed since he is a native speaker!

Use it! :)

lmao

Check with the doctors to see if you're from another planet

You can impress the ladies with something else rather than driving.

American Justice < all the convenience + performance of the auto

I was about to write the same xD

In a way we do see them in a racing. Notice randy put dual clutch in the auto category. I think it's being considered a manual only if it's using foot operated clutch which is too slow.

Autos are in the majority of racing today. Maybe you're thinking about Nascar.

+THEASSOSIATION That is why I phrased my comment that way. A DCT has more in common to a manual then a conventional automatic. The car tested here was NOT a DCT but a conventional automatic what many call a slushbox. Randy may toss them in the same category but they are totally different. In recent times these reviews have convinced the less knowledgeable that a slushbox is quicker over a manual on the race track. I agree for a few laps it may be but how about for the entire race? Will it keep it's advantage or will heat come into play and make the shifting sloppy and slow the car down? I love these video reviews but hate reading the comments "they tested the manual, the auto is faster!" If they are so much faster why has no race team that I know of used a conventional automatic?

+Bill Panop you're right, heat can develop but that's why they have transmission coolers. I'm not sure of the correlation between a DCT automatic and a conventional one in terms of heat difference though.

+CeeStyleDj Conventional Automatics with a torque converter aka slushbox or Dual Clutch (DCT)? They are totally different animals? What racers use a a slushbox? Nascar uses 4-speed manuals.

+AfterDark3 Then explain why F1 cars have a manual transmission.

***** They don't, they use a Dual Clutch AUTOMATED manual, there is no driver interaction with the gearbox except the paddles on the wheel.

AfterDark3 But they could just as well have fully automatic gearbox with no flappy paddles or anything, right?

***** They might just aswell, but DCFP gearboxes allow control over the revs, which very experienced drivers, like that in F1 will use the engine to brake into corners, which fully automated manuals will not allow you to do, its the one way to get control over a automated transmission. Its the one thing that computers can't do for you, predict what gear you need for a corner.

+AfterDark3 And this is why manuals are superior to automatics as long as you don't drive like shit.

+Enzo Corona People from the 1920s: A real man rides horses. Driving an automobile says a lot about a man, like "I'm not one."

+Enzo Corona That is true, the only goodside about automatic is traffic jams though, other than that is just bullshit

Real men turn off ABS.