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Last manual shift car in F1?

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  1. Nachtfalter

    Nachtfalter Formula Junior

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    Does anyone know what the last hand shifted F1 car was? Driver? Race?
     
  2. nerofer

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    Well, sorry: not "splitting hair in four" here, but:
    - semantics say that gears are still hand shifted today, no?
    - but if you mean, and i believe you do, "changing with a hand actuating a gear handle/ lever and a clutch pedal actuated by foot", that is what the traditionalists would call "a proper gear change"...then I would say the Forti FG 01 in 1995, followed (decreasing) by the Minardi M193B in 1994

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  3. Nachtfalter

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    Yeah, I guess that wasn't real clear, I meant foot clutch/stick shift.

    Thanks for the reply.
     
  4. SPEEDCORE

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    1995 season. Forti-Ford with Pedro Diniz and Roberto Moreno.
     
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    Anyone remember the last car to use analog gauges in F1? I recall it being a team using a reworked F3000 car to step up to F1. And the story of Bernie and Mad Max lambasting them for the gauges.
     
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    Well Forti was a F3000 team before entering F1 so I wouldn't be surprised it was them :eek:
     
  7. SSNISTR

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    How I miss F1 using a clutch pedal and an actual shifter...
     
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    and road cars too
     
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    At what point did they go from h-pattern to sequential?
     
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    Quick question. In the 80s, Senna and Prost era. I was H gearshift, manual with a clutch? Or is it just with sequential but with a clutch?

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    I think Ferrari were the first to use paddle shifters in '89 if I'm not wrong.
     
  12. nerofer

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    In actual fact, they tested such a system back in 1982 at home at Fiorano already: Forghieri built an experimental one and had Gilles Villeneuve testing it, but Gilles hated it so they shelved the idea, and Postlethwaite dig it out the shelf in 1988 and proposed it to Barnard.
    Way before, in 1974 the Lotus 76 actually raced with a two-pedals set only (accelerator and brakes only, no clutch pedal); there was indeed still a clutch, but it was actuated by a small latch on the gear level handle: when the pilot closed his hand on the gear lever, the latch was pressed and actuated the clutch; when he opened his hand, the latch depressed, clutching the gear.
    Neither Peterson nor Ickx were convinced.

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  13. nerofer

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    I guess it was a H gearshift, not sequential.

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