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Originally Posted by eschaider
I am not sure which was the greater whoops, Jim. Stabbing the brakes or down shifting without matching engine rpm and vehicle speed. Intuitively I want to say the down shift without matching the engine rpm to the vehicle speed but I am not smart enough about those things to know with any degree of certainty.
Great learning experience, thanks for sharing. Quite a ride and great recovery!
Ed
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Ed,
When you are on the track you do not necessarily know how fast you are going, the speedo is not hooked up. It's more of a sense of how fast you are going. My guess is that coming in at that speed into that corner might have caught me a little off guard and disrupted my normal routine. Not sure that at that speed I could have rev matched it in 2nd gear even if I did blip it. Second Strike for my setup has 88 mph in second gear at about 6600 rpms and I may have been going faster than that when the clutch was let out. I should have kept it in 3rd until I had slowed more.
Patrick,
Morris will definitely be able to add some wisdom to this one.
Jim