Upshifting and Downshifting

[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.