575M F1 shift from 1st to N

Just to clarify, when stepping on the brake does it (doesn't) down-shift when you are slowing/rolling to stop? Because the car will not automatically go to neutral unless you shift to neutral when at a stop or rolling to stop, i.e. you are in 3rd gear coming up on a stop sign, when you step on the brake and as the car slows down it will automatically down-shift to 2, then 1 but not into neutral.

 

Pull both paddles for neutral.

The beep from pulling the left paddle at a stop engages hill assist.

 

Okay. And apologies if this sounds condescending, its not, you are tapping both paddles to go into neutral, right?

 

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Welcome to the 575M club...I'm 77 and you are at the right place to ask questions. F-Chat is the best!

 

Cliff- There are no dumb questions, just dumb answers. As you discovered, neither the upshift nor downshift paddle will get you to neutral, but both together will. Also, if you come to a stop in 1st and take your foot off the brake, she will select neutral in about 10 seconds and you will have to put your foot on the brake to get her back into gear. Better to read that than learn it the hard way like most of us had to. Also, if you sit stopped in 1st gear for several minutes, she will get tired of waiting for you to take off and again select neutral.

To best enjoy F1, treat it like a manual transmission with the clutch pedal missing, which is what it is. Whatever gear you want, up or down, select it yourself and do not let the system do it for you. You can also coast to a stop in neutral, if that is how you drive a 3 pedal. If traffic starts moving before you come to a stop, either the upshift or down shift paddle will get you back into the same gear. That gear will normally be too high for comfortable acceleration, so as a technique, I always use the downshift paddle so I can instantly downshift into a usable gear.

 

Cliff- Whenever an F1 Ferrari is stopped, the clutch is open, whether in gear or in neutral. Also, our throw-out bearings are constant contact types, so even when the clutch is closed, the throw-out bearing is seeing some wear. Coasting to a stop in neutral saves T/O bearing open and close cycles and clutch open and close cycles, but has only a small effect on clutch life compared to starts from a full stop. One of our pros estimates F1 T/O bearings typically have several times more cycles on them than an equivalent 3 pedal bearing for the same mileage.

 

" One of our pros estimates F1 T/O bearings typically have several times more cycles on them than an equivalent 3 pedal bearing for the same mileage."
That is interesting....any similar comparison for clutch life?

 

No, depends too much on the driver.

 

Nope, has to be 1st or reverse, but do not use it in reverse or reverse up any incline. Reverse gear is almost as high as second and will toast your clutch pretty quickly if used uphill.

At a full stop, select 1st, depress and release or depress and hold down (my technique) the left paddle. After a few seconds, you will hear a beep and you are in hill climb/slow maneuver mode.

Launch control feature is included in the bulletin, but I would not recommend it as it is rough on the clutch and driveline.


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Affirmative, nothing to do with the brakes.