Thanks Grant
What I would love one day is to see a video of that track beauty of yours at the track or up a Colorado mountain
Fanch,
I would think it would be harder on the gear box no to heel toe rev there, those hairpins are very very tight and dropring from 2nd to 1st without rev matching would not only give you severy cervical wiplash but it would be much more violent on the transmission, but if you rev match its smooth with no jerkiness and no loss of grip or unsetteling the car at the entry. I guess the easiest way on the car would be not to drop to 1st and take them on 2nd gear but then you'd be really on the low end of the rev range and have no power comming out at all, and you'd just be cruising.
And like you say, heel toeing to 1st is the hardest to match rev, its much harder for it to make it smooth but that is a very fun mountain road. The only problem are the tourist buses that frequent it, they take up the whole two lanes in the hairpins
so you have to watch for those so you don't catch them at mid corner as you can see in the video, and the other is the roman type stone pavement pedestrian crossings that cross the road that make you loose grip, if you look at the very last curve of the 996 mountain segment, the front tires loose grip on one of those and car understeers a bit so I had to open the steering and delay the throttle opening and just went a bit onto the opposite lane.
San Sebastian? unfortunately I'm even closer to Madrid in the center of Spain or Lisbon than to Sanse
thats one of the disadvantages of being in a corner, but if you even go to north Portugal for surfing