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I´ve got a technical question

now that i have bought myself a logitech driving force pro steeringwheel i had a discusion with a friend of mine about the gear:

In his opinion a racing gear must be tipped forward to shift one gear up while the wheel does it the other way in its standard configuration. This at last would make sense to me because G-Force pushes the driver to the front while breaking and back into the seat while speeding up. Shifting at last is directly connected to these two actions so i guess it would be easier for the driver if a gear acts like me or the logitech company is thinking.

Now does anyone know who is right? Tell me, dont let me blast the engine of the first Lan Evo I´m getting my hands on!
 
Most sequential racing gearboxes I've seen have been "Pull back to change up, push forward to change down". I've seen a couple that have been the opposite way around, but the vast majority have been back = up a gear, forward = down a gear.
 
Most I've seen have been foward-upshift back-downshift.

It may seem more natural for you to do the opposite, but then again I think most drivers don't risk using the momentum of the car to aid in their shifts (to much rish of grabbing the wrong gear early). It's not as if it is incredible difficult to get a gear on a sequential box (when compared to a manual).
 
Nearly every SMG that I have seen and watched from in-car cameras operates as back = upshift, forward = downshift. This comes from the 1-2 shift pattern of nearly all MTX cars, where first is near the firewall and second is back from there.
 
Duke
Nearly every SMG that I have seen and watched from in-car cameras operates as back = upshift, forward = downshift. This comes from the 1-2 shift pattern of nearly all MTX cars, where first is near the firewall and second is back from there.
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I believe I'm thinking more of auto manual cars, err whatever the individual manufacturor decides to call it.
 
Heh, the few of those I've driven are left = downshift, right = upshift.
;)
 
A very good friend of mine is an ex F3 (German championship) driver. I asked him the same question. He said, it all comes down to physics. Upshift when you accelerate and downshift when you deccelerate, is the most logic way to shift (that's what he told me)
 
kikie
He said, it all comes down to physics. Upshift when you accelerate and downshift when you deccelerate, is the most logic way to shift (that's what he told me)
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:lol:


I'm sorry man, but I had to laugh at that. :indiff:

Like, turning the anti-clockwise, when you want to go left, would be the most logical thing to do! :lol:
 
does it really matter in the long run?

adapt to your car.
 
DQuaN
I'm sorry man, but I had to laugh at that. :indiff:
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Don't laugh at me, laugh at my friend, he told me this, don't shoot the messenger. :) But I think he is not going to like it.

He said, when you accelerate, the G-forces make it more difficult to push when upshifting, so pulling the stick, when accelerating is less hard and more accurate due to the G-forces.
Decelerating is just the opposite, you lean forward due to the g-force so it is more logical to push the stick when downshifting.


And don't laugh at what other people have to say, they might be right . ;)
 
Woha, if never thought that question would turn out that difficult - allready felt some kind of noobish posting it here but thanks for all that explanation. I would say we have a tie - at last I hope that Evo will accept this, too :)
 
Race car driver pulls the stick to upshift and push it to downshift (even WRC, when they don't use the flaps behind the wheel)
 

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