arsenal

It's easier at track speeds as you're braking considerably harder than on the street so the brake pedal is more aligned with the throttle pedal making it easier to blip.

arsenal

From 2nd to 5th? You're probably the only person in the world who rev matches when shifting up a gear in the S2000.

windhund116

Not really rev matching, more like blipping throttle between gears. I guess just me and the driver in the Bullitt movie.

Prolly doesn't do that much, but sound good, & make me feel that I'm keeping the R's above 6K. I used to do this a lot with bikes I rode. Esp dirt bike in desert. Do it right and you don't need to use a clutch.

Marioshi

Blipping the throttle between upshifts is just wearing out your clutch... If you shift correctly your rpms should fall to the correct level for the next gear. The only reason you would need to raise the RPM is if you didn't get into the next gear quickly enough.

CMK

Yeah, blipping the throttle between upshifts?

windhund116

FWIW... you just back off the throttle a bit later than applying the clutch.

S2K Al

I agree that driving is evolving but also think it is dying. Automation is great but ultimately it will lead to drivers being obsolete. Cars that drive themselves will be efficient, safer and drive in a more orderly manner on the roads. Can it really go any other way? Racing cars will probably always exist but will be a past-time for those that can afford to play. That's my take on the future anyway.
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Hm, absolutely agree. Perhaps in a few decades, the only street legal cars will be fully autonomous and drive-it-yourself examples will become "track-only". If that came to pass, I'd wager that the costs of on-track racing would be driven down by an increase of demand (maybe?).

CMK

Hope springs eternal.

ChrisCrossCrash

The great thing is that rev matching is not a requirement, if you can it will reward you, if you don't the tranny still works. Props to your girlfriend for trying
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I agree with this completely. Although some of the benefits of rev matching have already been discussed here, I can imagine that there are a considerable amount of people who can't do it (especially when you consider other countries where manual transmissions are the norm). The technology (or art of driving as some of you have been saying) has evolved and come so far that generally speaking, from a racing point of view there are no benefits to driving a standard manual transmission if your car can shift faster and more consistent than you. Some would argue that this takes away the level of skill required for driving, but I think it's more about taking away the appreciation for the skill.

When I learned how to drive stick I felt like I was in boot camp. My dad would be on my case if I bogged his car down or lurched it forward. He really influenced my passion for cars and racing so I always appreciated the effort to never suddenly upset the balance of the car and drive smoothly (which led me to learn rev matching). Now that more modern cars are already doing this for you, people who never learned how to rev match can't fully appreciate what it actually entails. That's not to say that those people are a less skilled driver than me on a track though. After all, there's more to driving than just rev matching.

For me personally, even with this new technology, there is no substitute for feeling more engaged with my driving than shifting through gears. It's pretty apparent for me because I heel-toe constantly and unnecessarily when I'm just getting my groceries lol. This is just all my opinion though.