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      02-07-2008, 02:15 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by checuervo View Post
What if it's a pretty significant rev jump: from 6th to 4th or even to 3rd maybe? Will the internal synchro's still be fine?

From that M5 training vid, the guy seemed to agree with you that you really don't NEED to double-clutch in normal down shifting, but he did seem to imply that there was some minor benefit.
Like Welshman said, I don't think there is a huge need to double-clutch with today's cars. Rev-matching is more then enough for just about everyone. Most drivers can't even do that correctly.

Someone correct me if I'm messing this up; but double clutching gets both your engine and flywheel to the correct RPM. So sure there's a benefit to it, but I don't know if it's significant enough to warrant doing this every time.
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