Grant:
 

Yeah, those sound interesting.  I’ve never had a car with PDK,  but my impression is that many track driver put the gearbox in drive and don’t touch the paddles (let the car shift itself).  Any truth to this?

Not the ones I know. I have hardly done any laps in automatic (only to try a few times, and usually not even the full lap ). Always using the paddles. The drivers I have been talking to using it in automatic were only a few. An instructor once told me : we are drivers, we shift manually Smiley

The tactile experience at the finger tips is part of the driving experience. It adds A LOT and is immensely  pleasurable.  Loved the carbon ones in my former RS. So I can only imagine if you feel a real mechanical ''click'' when shifting Smiley