y most of race cars are manual???!?

Question

is it manual better than auto i think automatic is much easier but i ve noticed that all racers like rally and formula 1 etc.. r manual!!!

Answer 1

With a manual you're able to exploit high and low revs, make non-sequential changes easily (like from 3 to 1) and a skilled driver can get much more power out of an engine.

Answer 2

Well lets look at this way, the owner or previous owner has already set the car up for racing, and from the look of it I wouldn't make it a daily driver, but some weekends along with track time and you should be fine. Now the price he has it listed for is very affordable for a project/weekend racer. Especially if you look at what he has listed as the goodies... just the charger and rear end upgrades is the selling price alone, so you're buying those and getting the rest of the car for free. What I would suggest is buying it, providing it doesn't smoke like a freight train, and putting it down the track a few times to learn how the car handles, how to launch from the tree, learning how to drive the lane and buying or building another stroker of the same size and replacing the original block ( if it is a high milage engine) which it may not be depending on when the stroker was installed... One thing to watch for is the engine tempatures because tuning the stroker 347 is tricky as it will try to run lean, but if you get it right then you'll be eating the tires off of it without any problems.

Answer 3

Manual cars, give you the best control of the motor. Cars speed depends on not only the amount of power the engine has, but also the amount of torque. The most torque is achieved usually at higher revs.

Automatic cars are generally set to change gears around 2-3000 revs. To get better speed, 4-5000 revs are better (all depends on the car you have).

Formula one is more of an automatic manual transmission. They don't have clutch pedals. Some high ends cars have this, some "low end" cars also. Renault & Proton (from Malaysia- using the renault set up) has this. This gives you control of when you change gears, but doesn't let you skip gears. It has to be sequential.

For traffic jams, auto is the way to go. For driving pleaseure, manual.

Answer 4

With an automatic transmission some power is lost in the torque converter. A manual transmission has a direct connection from the engine, allowing all of the power to go directly to the wheels. Usually, manual transmissions are much lighter and stronger.

Answer 5

Answer #2 is full of crap...keeping BOTH hands on the wheel at ALL times leads to better car control.

The PDK transmission developed by Porsche(which morphed into the TIPTRONIC) for the 956/62 race car was time and time again proven to be a faster race car than the manual 6-speed version around a race track.

The reason why so many hi-tech race cars today(and production cars) have a version of the original paddle-type shifter out of the Porsche is it is FASTER than a human can shift, and SAFER, since you have full control of the steering wheel.

And Porsche has made a TON of $$$$$$$$ in the licenses it sold to other mfg's for developing this technology.