Optimum shifts

[gerard]

> I didn't get it, Gerard :(((

The URL again:

 http://www.2226.co.za/cartest.exe

or see the website at http://www.cartest2000.com

> As for shifts, an engine builder that I know of taught me that revving an
> engine past its peak power RPM only makes you lose time...because past the
> peak power RPM power goes down so you don't get anything frm revving an
> engine till the redline. From his experience, they put two MWBs with the
> same engine and drivetrain and suspension on a race track, one revving till
> the redline and the other only till the peak power RPM...  guess which was
> the one 1.5 secs faster on the Spa-Francorchamps race track?? The one whose
> driver shifted at the peak power RPM... now you all know why it's useless
> to rev till redline.

That's what I understand, but I'm just thinking that a race car probably
produces peak power close to its redline. Just my R0.02 which is roughly
0.002 Euros. :(

G.