| QUOTE (Sanders @ 1 hour, 48 minutes ago) | Hello everyone!
In some parts of Initial D Takumi and some others do something that is absolutely confusing for me. https://youtu.be/_Tntdrg5N1M?t=51s - at this moment when you see Takumi's left foot you can notice that he make double press of the clutch pedal "between" every gear. For example, when he's on the 4th gear he press clutch pedal and let it go when his gear stick in the "middle" of the way from 4th gear to 3rd. Then he press it again and let it go while he's on the 3rd gear. Then after small pause he press it again and going to the 2nd gear doing it in the same way.
I saw it many times when professional racers let the cluth pedal after every gear while downshifting, i saw how they do heel & toe and double clutch technique, but i've never seen something like that. Maybe it is some kind of anime creator's mistake or not ?
Please, help me to understand it  |
Double clutching comes from the early days of manual transmissions, which didn't have syncros, so you'd have to double clutch to get the gear to spin at around the right relative speeds to engage the desired gear. Now, you could rev match the engine to the desired gear and avoid using the clutch all together, which is a lot quicker at least while driving normally (it's also possible to do this with a modern manual as well), but it's still not as fast as a typical clutch actuation.
No...why would you do it when racing? I have no clue. I too noticed the double clutching in Initial D. They actually say the line "not double clutching, like you should" in the first Fast and Furious movie as well. I'm thinking it's just a thing that non-car guys think will sound impressive when they say it to other non-car guys.
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