Mx5 Mania Track Day

[marcusus]

You don't need to double declutch you aren't driving a truck. Ideally you shouldn't have time to double clutch because you should be braking so hard for a very short amount of time and concentrating on braking and cornering.
If you find resistance then go to the gym. Or adjust your clutch pedal and bleed the lines/check slave cyl.

Yeah see, I still don't agree, which is why we're having this debate in the first place.

For what reason is it not beneficial to double (de) clutch? If you're quick enough at it, there's no loss of time spent taking the clutch out and putting it back in. And since you're heel toeing, you're hard on the brakes anyway, so it makes no difference so long as you can do it in a short amount of time.

Screw this... I'm making a thread in the motor sport section...

[Alex]

Ok, I just finished going through all my pictures from the track day (finally)

Ajay I'll be around at mania later to give you some CD's

as for everyone else here is what I have

Michael (White NA) - 73 pics, 275 MB
Clint (Green NA with rollbar) - 70 pics, 244 MB
AL55VJ (Green NA) - 52 pics, 191 MB
MX5 (Blue NC) - 17 pics, 60 MB
FFS (Green NB) - 10 pics, 35 MB
Gavin? (silver NB no front plate) - 90 pics, 341 MB
IBD (Black NB no front plate) - 13 pics, 49 MB
MRQ (Red NA) - 43 pics, 152 MB
Sasso (Red NA white wheels) - 201 pics 736 MB
White EVO - 21 pics 76 MB
YEW and YBG (Red NA, Green NA) - 326 pics, 1.2GB

let me know if you want the pics, although I cannot say how good they are as quite a few are out of focus but they do come full quality
there are small (800 x 533) samples in the Multimedia section, for comparison full quality is 3888 x 2592

also not sure on how much to post CD's

[Spranga]

You don't need to double declutch you aren't driving a truck. Ideally you shouldn't have time to double clutch because you should be braking so hard for a very short amount of time and concentrating on braking and cornering.
If you find resistance then go to the gym. Or adjust your clutch pedal and bleed the lines/check slave cyl.

Yeah see, I still don't agree, which is why we're having this debate in the first place.

For what reason is it not beneficial to double (de) clutch? If you're quick enough at it, there's no loss of time spent taking the clutch out and putting it back in. And since you're heel toeing, you're hard on the brakes anyway, so it makes no difference so long as you can do it in a short amount of time.

Screw this... I'm making a thread in the motor sport section...

I am with you on this Marcus. I always ddc and it is now second nature. I cannot see how it takes longer in track circumstances because you are braking and not needing to put drive to the wheels. If you are braking enough to change down a gear you have time to ddc. It probably does not matter at track days but I have been told by at least two seasoned driving instructors that if you are running in an enduro event, cars like WRX's will start to lose gearboxes if the drivers do not ddc. It is definitely better for the gearbox and if you are skillful enough it will not effect your braking or cornering performance.

[marcusus]

I am with you on this Marcus. I always ddc and it is now second nature. I cannot see how it takes longer in track circumstances because you are braking and not needing to put drive to the wheels. If you are braking enough to change down a gear you have time to ddc. It probably does not matter at track days but I have been told by at least two seasoned driving instructors that if you are running in an enduro event, cars like WRX's will start to lose gearboxes if the drivers do not ddc. It is definitely better for the gearbox and if you are skillful enough it will not effect your braking or cornering performance.

Hurray, Dan's with me

Now go post your support in the other thread