Upshifting and Downshifting

[NNH]

I think it's about finding a system that works for you. 3 to 9 position works on the track because you don't generally need more than 150 degrees of steering lock, but on the road you may come across tighter bends. FWIW, in Britain the Institute of Advanced Motoring mainly teaches shuffling, which they take from the police high performance driving course.

[Perfectlap]

having your hands at 9 and 3 also let's you know what your suspension is doing before the car reacts. An early warning system of sorts.
A guy in the insurance business told me that 60% of accidents would be avoided if the driver had another mere second of reaction time.
This where looking ahead (and not just immediately in front of you) also helps.
From the track to the road.


one bad shifting habit admission:
sometimes to keep the car from coming to a dead stop (and waste gas with the stop and go) I'll accelerate from 1-3 mph by downshifting to 2nd gear.
I never downshift to 1st ever.
The proper thing is to stop the car with the e-brake,
take it out of gear, release the e-brake and then accelerate into first gear.
I get lazy.

[limoncello]

What is shuffle steering? I'm not familiar with the term -

[wombat7]

Shuffle steering is when you shuffle, or move by some other means, your hands around the steering wheel as you turn it. It causes you not to have a consistent hand position on the wheel. While it isn't necessarily a ba dthing to do on the street, many people think its terrible to do on the track or during any kind of spirited driving. As I stated before, it causes you not to have that constant reference point as to where straight is. Also as someone else says, this position allows the car to give you the best amount of feedback that it can. If you do any kind of performance driving, you will learn to listen to what a car is telling you and adjust accordingly. If your hands are in a constant place, the signals your car is sending to you will normally mean the same thing. If your hands are moving around the wheel as you turn, the signal that you get at one point may mean something different than the same signal at a differnt point around the wheel.