Next coming season: Spring-Summer. Brainstorming.

[gorgias1976]

(though Howstons would force to drive auto-clutch to avoid if from slipping)

I always thought the "clutch slip" was just over-zealous shifting .... slow shifting=no clutch slip.

In the interest of period racing ..... surely auto clutch and auto blip should be turned off should it not ?

jonathan

I see two problems in the "slipping clutch" issue.
You can do a very quick change of gears in perfect combination of clutch, gear lever, throtthe and still end up in a slipping cluth just because you did it faster than some value defined at the car files.
Many cars don't have configured an auto-clutch delay penalty when changing gears, so while you lose some tenths of throttle time every time you shift up to avoid the slipping clutch, drivers using flappy paddles get an almost instant gear change. This ends up in drivers using clutch being handicapped compared to the others.

That is something that has happened to the BT44. When I first tested it at the beginning of the season I did some acceleration tests using manual gears+clutch versus auto-clutch+flappy paddles.
Checking the telemetry at Motec it was abvious how using flappy paddles was faster on acceleration as gear changes happened almost inmediatly whereas using clutch every time a gear was changed there was a gap above 2 tenths of a second where the car wasn't acceleration.

I Don't know if the 75 Formulas have a delay when changing gears using auto-clutch, maybe next week I can start doing a test on them.