Ooops....

[pupp]

Anyone else ever stuffed it into first from second, instead of third, when rushing a change? Guess the runway at Duxford isn't the best place either . Hope I never see the revcounter at full deflection again

[tvrforever]

Yes but noticed as I was doing it so only a tiny lift of the clutch before changing again....

Don't have that car anymore (gone to the great TVR breakers in the sky sadly) so don't know what adverse effects it had but like you was at full belt on a track...

[tvrheart]

I've done that a couple of times too, usually under hard accelration when I'm trying to do a brisk gear change! Thankfully my reactions must be quite good as the alarm bells rang before the back wheels overtook the fronts.
Several thousand miles later I seem to have it out of my system now though.

[shpub]

quote:Anyone else ever stuffed it into first from second, instead of third, when rushing a change? Guess the runway at Duxford isn't the best place either . Hope I never see the revcounter at full deflection again

Err were you changing up or down? If you were changing down you weren't engine breaking by any chance you naughty boy... You should be using the brakes.

[yum]

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Err were you changing up or down? If you were changing down you weren't engine breaking by any chance you naughty boy... You should be using the brakes.

Engine "breaking" - what an appropriate typo.

[pupp]

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Err were you changing up or down? If you were changing down you weren't engine breaking by any chance you naughty boy... You should be using the brakes.

Ashamed to say, I was changing up...at least I was trying to. Incredibly there seems to be no apparent damage or ill effects...certainly no rod out the side like I expected (grabbing timber here)