IMadeYouReadThis
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Yabba dabba doo, buddy!
Also, I'm 32 chiefy
Yeah I'm thinking you're a guy that just couldn't drive a manual transmission equipped car to save his life
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Yabba dabba doo, buddy!
Also, I'm 32 chiefy
IMO, manuals are dying mainly because the skill isn't passed down to the younger drivers and it's not taught in driving school like in other countries. And parents today don't drive them, so why would their kids care? With a cycle like that, only enthusiasts are left and they're not enough around to keep the market afloat. My parents drove manuals and while I was too young to learn at the time, it stuck with me still I got my first and drove them for 13 years.
heh, tell that to the 18yr old girl racer who just received her first street car (GT350R) who supposedly has some kind of NASCAR ride (feeder series?) from a family of motorsports racers who didn't understand that you park a car with the trans in 1st. Or how to use a clutch pedal. It was posted here by way of YT recently.as a side note NASCAR still has em.
So all is not lost for now.
Really Matt, you need to pick on a nineteen year old? That girl racer, Hallie Deegan, had never driven a street car with a stick. So she wasn’t perfect first time out. BFD! And by the way, do not know if you’ve ever driven a NASCAR stocker but the clutch is nothing like a street car.heh, tell that to the 18yr old girl racer who just received her first street car (GT350R) who supposedly has some kind of NASCAR ride (feeder series?) from a family of motorsports racers who didn't understand that you park a car with the trans in 1st. Or how to use a clutch pedal. It was posted here by way of YT recently.
I was not criticizing her inability to feather the clutch properly. Rather her abject SURPRISE that the car was in gear while parked and her utter ignorance that she needed to depress a clutch pedal on startup. She (or family) races buggies and motorcycles so clutch use on engine crank over should have been long since ingrained into her neural pathways. I was pointing out that for someone so steeped in motorsports to not know the basics of 3-pedal use was astounding and refuting the notion that the existance of NASCAR would translate into the manual transmission continuing to have impact on gen-pop adoption.That girl racer, Hallie Deegan, had never driven a street car with a stick.
NASCAR is still stuck in the 60's. They are incredibly slow to change and evolve into the 21st century. Just about every race car series out there has gone to automatics or sequential gearbox's. Its just a matter of time before the pressure from race car manufactures, companies, sponsors etc.. will force them to convert. Especially when the costs come down and are comparable if not cheaper.Standard transmissions are a dying breed, as a side note NASCAR still has em.
So all is not lost for now.
I hear you Matt. But I've learned just because somebody is a racer doesn't mean they know how to handle a street car. Especially an 18 YO. Regardless she is an up and comer. I expect to see her in Cup cars within the next few years.I was not criticizing her inability to feather the clutch properly. Rather her abject SURPRISE that the car was in gear while parked and her utter ignorance that she needed to depress a clutch pedal on startup. She (or family) races buggies and motorcycles so clutch use on engine crank over should have been long since ingrained into her neural pathways. I was pointing out that for someone so steeped in motorsports to not know the basics of 3-pedal use was astounding and refuting the notion that the existance of NASCAR would translate into the manual transmission continuing to have impact on gen-pop adoption.
In point of fact I am surprised NASCAR hasn't already gone to DCT and paddle shifters.