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I do find it interesting that some are so willing to "be engaged" in driving that they will take a lesser performing car to do it.
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People have always had their own individual reasons for intentionally choosing the lesser performing car.
People bought small-blocks when big-blocks were also available in the same model.
Back when automatics were the slower transmission choice, people still bought them. Even enthusiasts did. It at least used to be that automatics had their own class ladder at the strip (those /SA classes, vs just /S for the stick shift cars), so that the automatic guys weren't shut out of the trophies the moment they drove through the gate.
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DCT is the best of both worlds for performance, you just lose the level of physical inputs other than the paddles.
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I've said it before that if I was seriously competing for top position at time trialing or wheel-to-wheel racing, and a DCT was what it was going to take to win, sooner or later that's what I'd probably end up with. But as a street and occasional HPDE driver the value of a DCT drops back to being just the bragging rights. If I was a street/strip guy instead, I might feel somewhat differently, though "bragging rights" is still an attribute that lacks substance.
They're better road course drivers than most people give them credit for being. Even down at the K&N series level.
The road races are the only NASCAR races that I bother to watch any more. The Dales, Sr and Jr, put up better than decent showings at Daytona in the yellow #3 Corvette, and Sr was reported to have thoroughly enjoyed his stints at the 24 hours.
Norm