i am no specialist in this, but as far as i understand it the whole gearbox is a very flexible tool that has great impact on the way the car behaves onder throttle,braking and acceleration.
The way the way the spacing/spreading of the gears is determined by the technique applied.
Correct me if i am wrong, but back in the gt5/6 days i think it was
@praiano63 (Laurent, my friend, can you please help me here?) who developed the method of a "flipped gearbox":
--> first max "final gear" and then minimum "max speed", in the end spacing.
The gears got longer, and where in a different rev-band...
you had more acceleration from standing start,
and sometimes with "down-tuned" cars you could get rid of pumping...
There are more advantages but this should do for now... The gearbox was and sometimes still is one of the most powerful tools for tuning.
In GTS it still works, that was a big "eureka" moment when we had GTS-prologue and again when GTS came out... that it still worked...
Jeje (Jérôme) also uses this method a lot, but most of the time with a twist:
- sometimes he uses a higer minimum "max speed" setting
- but nearly always he uses the "final gear" minus 500 rpm and then spaces the gears
@Jeje6410 why?
so to give you a kind of simple answer:
the max speed setting provides the rev-band/location and the final gear the dimension of the total range (i know that is incorrect but it can be a way of thinking).
if you want to dig deeper in this subject, here on GTP are a lot of posts about this from the past (GT5/6) that still apply...
I hope it is all a bit correct and understandable, i hope that others can help here...
Grts Stefan from very hot holland
