Ok, need some advice from those of you who have pushed the S on the track.

Would you recommend downshifting to VTECH prior to a corner, then staying over 6K through the apex so that you can accelerate instantly after the apex, or, maintaining between 5K and 5,500 until you pass the apex and then getting back on the gas?

thx

 

As a general rule you should never drop out of VTEC on a road course. The tranny was specifically geared such that you wouldn't need to. I won't say absolute because there may be corners where it's quicker to not have to downshift and then upshift again but those would be the exception and not the rule.

 

This would be better in the Racing and Competition section...
You'd probally get a reasonable answer than this

 

Not to critique spelling, but it's VTEC. VTECH makes phones.

I have no track experience but I've hit a 45 degree turn and down shifted in the middle of it to VTEC and floored it, makes for some fun drifting.

I would think (and I don't think often) that being over 6k through the apex would be beneficial as you come out of it.

There's a few videos floating around here of a Japanese guy that drives the piss out of the S2000 everytime I've seen him, I don't know his name off hand though or the links to the videos.

 

Moved to R&C for better answers.

 

3ngin33r1,

man you are so bulk!

 

Thanks.

 

If you have the option to exit a corner accelerating in a lower gear, do it.

A more difficult problem is when you encounter a corner that can be entered in 2nd, but is long and fast enough that you would hit the rev limiter before the end of the turn. Do you then shift to 3rd before the turn so you don't have to shift and upset the car, or do you enter in 2nd and find a place mid-corner where there is room for a short straight while you shift? Or do you enter in 2nd and hold redline until corner exit?

That really depends on ths situation.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Orthonormal
If you have the option to exit a corner accelerating in a lower gear, do it.

A more difficult problem is when you encounter a corner that can be entered in 2nd, but is long and fast enough that you would hit the rev limiter before the end of the turn.

 

I think it depends on the particular corner...how fast it is, constant, increasing or decreasing radius, flat, uphill, or down hill, followed by a straight or not or if a compound corner etc. On the track you would try it both ways to see which is faster. In most cases, with the S's low torque, being in VTEC by the apex seems to be quicker, with the advantage of having the power to throttle steer, even with the negative of having to upshift if necessary on trackout, but there is no absolute rule. At the track you will sometimes find different drivers in similar cars do a particularly tricky (in terms of gear selection) corner differently to get their fastest times, so even driving style/ability probably comes into play. And sometimes both ways produce equal laptimes.