two topics in one really so help always appreciated.
Firstly, Watching some videos of a both a V8 car being driven and a Nascar being driven by Montoya, on both cases on the upshifts niether used the clutch with the exception of pulling away. Now I know you can change gear without a clutch but everything I have read suggests you need to drop the rev's then steady them before doing it. But in both cases these guys had their foot flat to the floor when upshifting. Any idea's?
Secondly just watching an old top gear with Clarkson testing the ascari A10 with its sequential gear box. It appears on the upshifts he's just pulling the stick as you would in most, but on the down shifts it appears he's using a clutch pedal. Again, is this one of the standards of this type of gear box or is it just a trick of the light and maybe he's just reacting to the braking or something?