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I recently attended a shifter kart school at Bondurant at Firebird Raceway. Here is how the instructors told me how to do it.

Downshifts:
1. Left foot brake at your normal braking point

2. When you get close to the end of your braking zone, start downshifting through the gears to the intended gear without using the clutch.

3. Do all the shifting to the intended gear at one time.
Example: You are in 6th & need to be in 2nd. In a continuous sequence count down through the gears, 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - get on the gas at the appropriate point when reaching the correct gear.

4. Optimally you want to time the shift into the final gear & step on the gas at nearly the same momnent,

5. count your gears all the time, whether shifting up or down.

While I was not able to do it correctly 100% of the time (maybe 50%) when I got it right it was SWEET.

Upshifts:
1. Barely breath the throttle while pulling on the shift lever & it is in the next gear.

I did not try no lift shifts as the karts did not have an ignition shifter cut-out interface.

Now these were 125ccc shifter karts & have way less inertia than a DSR car, so not having driven a bike powered DSR I do not know if this would work in the same way. It certainly worked well on the shifter karts.

Thanks ... Jay