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Originally Posted by zx10guy
All of this.
The track school/days I attend have different groups that go out on track and within those groups there are riders of varying levels (1 through 4). Sometimes there are lots of level 1s in a group and times there are lots/exclusively level 4s in a group. Level 1s are the riders that have the least experience at the school and level 4s have the most. If there are mixing of riding levels, the school places the level 1s and 4s together. The ideology is that the level 4s have the experience and judgement to be able to handle any potential erratic riding behaviors from level 1 riders. Hence my initial comments in this thread from my perspective with the track days/school I've been attending which to me seems to be so much more logical than what appears to be an hope and pray environment of a TF at the Ring.
I'll echo the sentiments that I would never get on track at the Ring during a TF. Heck, there are track days at a nearby track I can attend that I don't because of what I've heard concerning riders that show up thinking they're the next Rossi, Martin, or Marquez.
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This. Of the videos I've seen of Misha driving the ring (the Kia Ionic 5 comes to mind), none of it seems fun to me. What is the point of trying to take a racing line on a track when there are vast amounts of traffic of varying levels of performance capabilities (the cars) and skill levels (the drivers).
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."