How to Drive Stick Shift

How to Drive a Stick Shift (Manual Transmission) Car The following videos show the basics and some more advanced methods

Last updated 6/2011

English

Course content

1 section • 14 lectures • 9m total length

Introduction 0:41
Introduction
Seating Position 0:44
Seating Position
Gentle Launch (Subtitled)0:49
Gentle Launch - How to start when you're just relaxing
Moderate Launch 0:29
Moderate Launch
Hard Launch 0:36
Aggressive Launch
Upshifting, Part 10:39
A discussion of the objective of upshifting
Upshifting, Part 2 0:35
See it, hear what it should and shouldn't sound like
Single Clutch Downshift 0:35
Single clutch, rev-matched downshifts
Double-Clutch Downshift1:15
Double-Clutching
Heel And Toe, Part 10:43
A discussion of the technique of Heel and Toe
Heel And Toe, Part 20:39
Heel and Toe in action
Putting It All Together, Part 1 (Subtitled)0:48
A quick tour of a very short road
Putting It All Together, Part 20:35
A quick trip with launch, up and downshifts while pushing hard. Includes a demonstration of power-on oversteer
Horsepower and Torque
All about horsepower, torque, power, leverage, and gear ratios

Copyright © Gregory Heumann 2002, 2003

How to Drive a Stick Shift (Manual Transmission) Car

The following videos show the basics and some more advanced methods of driving a manual transmission car in a 2000 BMW M5.

1. Introduction

2. Seating

3. Gentle Launch

4. Moderate Launch

5. Hard Launch

6. Upshifting Part 1, Theory

7. Upshifting Part 2, Demonstration

8. Single Clutch Downshift

9. Double-Clutch Downshift

10. Heel and Toe Part 1, Theory

11. Heel and Toe Part 2, Demonstration

12. Putting It All Together Part 1

13. Putting It All Together Part 2

14. All About Horsepower and Torque