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Originally Posted by Rock-It Man
Regarding AT, check out Ferrari and Lamborghini's AT only cars. Porsche is still offering manuals, but the automatics outperform them.
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Actually, I've driven (albeit very briefly) two-pedal F and L cars, so I can say with some basis in experience that it's no more of a selling point to me that those makes have AT-only models than the fact that Chevy's Malibu and Ford's Fusion are AT-only. Truth be told, I think brands F and L have been losing some of the luster they once had, starting with the advent of their AT-only models.
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And now that manual setups offer rev matching, why not just use paddle shifting? The need for any skill has been removed.
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As I've posted before, if I was racing or at least engaged in Time Trialing where there were tire or other valuable contingencies at stake (assuming that I was at all competitive), I'd probably have to make different choices than I ever would for any other driving. Paddles or at least some sort of assisted shifting would probably be things I'd have to do differently. For all other driving (up to and including HPDE in advanced run groups), to remove the need for this skill is to remove the fun without getting any up-side benefit in return. Lose-lose. Mindless convenience on the street? More loss.
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As for your reference to racing series, you must be thinking of NASCAR.
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Also F1, which has been banning or limiting new technologies for years. There hasn't been a racing series without limits on technology since the first iteration of the Group 7 / Can-Am (and even they banned the Chapparal "sucker cars", which certainly qualified as thinking "out of the box").
Norm