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Originally posted by atomichead
[B]Give Porsche credit in that the race circuit is their testing ground and they do not as a rule release upon us components that haven't repeatedly proven their worth in this arena. They are doing that right now with a sequential gearbox in the 911 GT3 RSR.
If Porsche still participanted in F1 we no doubt would have already had a choice of the sequential gearbox for our street cars.
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If I recall correctly, Porsche gave the world its' first semiautomatic gearbox in the PDK box fitted to the factory Porsche 962s in the late eighties.. The Tiptronic is from my limited knowlege of transmission mechanicals, not the same thing.
Also (not to belabor the point that this isn't a thread about F1 transmissions) automatic downshifts in F1 have been banned for several years. Automatic upshifts I believe were legal until last season.
And as cool as the Ferrari F1 and BMW SMGs are, I think I'd probably still prefer a slick shifting manual box in my Boxster.