I find it very interesting how some people who post on this and other boards, who clearly have not driven a Tip 997TT long enough to know how to drive with this transmission, post opinions about the Tip as if they were experts???
Again, I had a 709 hp, 718 ft-lbs of torque 996/TT
that was a MANUAL. It was faster than my 610 hp 997TT Tip is ... no questions asked. And yes, I tracked my 996TT and in fact I even let the driver who holds the track record track my 996TT. It was a beast and in the right hands almost unbeatable!
Bottom line is when ones learns to drive the Tip, it is very fast. IMHO, only someone with "far above average" driving skills
will be able to shift a manual 'consistently' enough to stay up with the Tip,
I loved my manual 996TT and I love my 997TT Tip. I am not 'let down, disappointed or bored' by any stretch of the imagination going from such a fast manual to my Tip, period! How could anyone posibbly argue that you won't get better at braking and picking your lines when you no longer have to worry about heel/toe and shifting to match RPM to speed to gear.
If it were not so, then pray tell, why do the 'PROS' no longer use manual transmissions?
I wonder if the driver who drove the 997TT Tip one second slower than the manual around the Hockenheim would describe the Tip as MKSGR did as "boring Tip version"?
IMHO, there is now way one laps the Hockenheim in those kind of times in a 'boring' car!
RC appears to be one of the better drivers who USED to frequent this board (yes I know he started and runs the board!) My money says that few 'if any' people arguing the merits of manual over Tip could beat RC on the road or track when he is driving his 'boring' Tip.