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To race a car with an automatic transmission do you start in the lowest gear or in drive?
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∙ 7y ago
Leave it in drive - and let the automatic transmission shift for you. It shifts based on how much power is required by the push of the gas pedal.
If you shift manually you risk exceeding the red-line and damage the engine and xmission. Usually you need to dive it and learn the shift points under acceleration. If you lift off the gas to about 1/2 throttle during these points, the transmission will shift firmer. It's harder on other driveline components. Cars and transmissions aren't made to do it. So buy a shift kit that lets you manually shift whenever you want. Automatic transmissions are not all designed to race but made for efficiency. if you have a sport type of car the transmission usually will do better than you can. If it's not a sports car you may try to use the transmission manually but be careful if you don't have a tachometer you could easily red line and blow your engine, higher rpms when you shift will not always work you just have to experiment to see how your car reacts. By the way, racing automatics manually will just destroy them before their time so I hope you're making big bucks for a new one!
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