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As far as shifting is concerned, nothing beats the feel and sound of entering hot into a corner and executing a perfect couple of heel and toe downshifts (with smooth rev matching) hitting the apex, and then exiting the corner with wide open throttle and quick smooth upshifts, all perfectly choreograghed with the use of all three pedals, shifter, wheel, all at the same time.

The paddle shifter equipped car would be like driving a psuedo automatic.

I don't know if any of you have the video of the motegi battle of the super cars (was floating aroung on FJ a few months ago.) They had in car views with closeups of the pedals. The drivers in the with the fully manual shifted cars were working it around the track. The driver in the paddle shift Ferrari looked like he was on a Sunday afternoon cruise (la di da.)

Check out the in car shots of the NSX:

Motegi battle