[Excaliber]

On the Formula Fords, for instance, you have "square cut teeth" on the trans, there IS no synchromesh. Square cut means STRENGTH. You HAVE to double clutch to down shift.

Clutch in, move gear lever to neutral, let clutch OUT and QUICKLY rev up the engine to match road speed and spinning gears in the tranny speed, now quick before the tranny gears slow down, stab the clutch and push the gear lever hard into the next lower gear.

Get it right and it slips right in! Get the rpm wrong and you waste the tranny, miss the gear and loose the race!

Now do this while braking HARD for the corner with the ball of your foot pressing hard on the brake pedal and the heel of your foot reving the engine to the right rpm for the down shift! Whew, is it busy in the cockpit or what????

Ernie