Guys, it is all in the PDK working with the boost.....

The PDK will wring every last bit out of the power curve (when in sport mode) when the driver boots it and bang mercilessly into the next gear.

The thing to get our heads round is how fast the gear change is and how the boost is maintained during the change. When one plots the PDK changes there is barely a blip in the longitudinal Gs, the PDK turbo just keeps on accelerating.

Contrast this with the GT2...... below is a trace from mine changing second to third gear. The actual gear shift time was reasonably quick with the "zero acceleration" portion of the change being around 0.35s - what one has to appreciate and is demonstrated well in the graph below is how the acceleration tails off as the clutch is depressed and then how it returns to full acceleration once in the new gear - it actually takes 1.77s for the acceleration to return to full fat ~530PS style acceleration. In contrast the PDK will be accelerating at full whack for virtually this whole 1.77s....... there is the small matter of 67 metres covered by the GT2 during this "less than full whack" gearchange accelration phase !!!!

The PDK technology renders manual shifts obsolete for drag racing Smiley


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2009 997 GT2 659PS/827NM DIN