D1 R35

[LTHLRB]

with the very high power cars, they dont usually clutch kick unless they need to get onto boost quick.. watch taniguchi or nomuken drift in car vids on a high speed track.. they just kick it to start the drift or if they needa get onto boost, and because they have so much power and they are going so fast they let the weight of the car help manouver them into corners etc

[Beer Baron]

agreed, it's only blokes with the 200hp hachis that need to do a lot of clutch kicking to keep the thing going. a car with 600hp plus shouldn't need any help, but even still a floor mounted dummy pedal with a switch underneath it would be the go. clutch by wire. lol.

[dodgybrooks]

Where there is a will there is a way...

Nomuken is already working on it... it has a looong way to go as you can see

The subtitle in the last pic says

クラッチペダルがないのできったけはサイドと慣性使えない

Which means... Because there is no clutch pedal you can't use handbrake or inertia.

Which either makes no sense or is an indication of how bad my Japanese is.

Dude, the picture says

クラッチペダルがないのできっかけはサイドと慣性しか使えない

Because there is no clutch pedal, all you can use is the handbrake and inertia.

I don't think your Japanese is the problem, you either didn't put your glasses on or sank to many glasses (probably both) before reading it.

Also Nomuken is building a Toyota Progress (MarkX platform) for this year's D1, so the story goes.

[N1GTR]

F1 drivers have a couple of little levers... 7 and 15 on this diagram. But F1 steering wheels don't really spin around quite as much as drift car ones so I don't really think the same sort of setup would be appropriate.

I would just use some sort of fly-by-wire pedal setup. I think the driver will have enough trouble adaptding to whatever gear shift arrangement they end up using. It would be cooler if they did it in software, but I think that would be a while off.

1. Pit lane speed limiter

2. Differential +

3. Engine push

4. Gear upshift

5. Traction control +

6. Engine push setting switch

7. Clutch lever

8. Traction control

9. Team info inlap

10. Burn out

11. Multifunctional switch

12. Lambda 13. Diagnostic

14. Wing angle info switch

15. Clutch

16. Differential selective switch

17. Team radio

18. Traction control -

19. Gear downshift

20. Engine break

21. Differential -

22. Neutral

23. Display page change

VERY cool

[Merli]

VERY cool

Of course it is... It's a BMW

[Laurence]

Dude, the picture says

クラッチペダルがないのできっかけはサイドと慣性しか使えない

Because there is no clutch pedal, all you can use is the handbrake and inertia.

I don't think your Japanese is the problem, you either didn't put your glasses on or sank to many glasses (probably both) before reading it.

Whoops, no I am pretty sure that it is just my crappy Japanese that is the problem. Sort of a forest/trees concentration scenario if you get what I mean. Thanks for correcting that.

Also Nomuken is building a Toyota Progress (MarkX platform) for this year's D1, so the story goes.

Yeah, that car is for D1 Street Legal. It is basically just a JZX with about 10cm chopped off each end. Stock they are heavier than a Mark II, but they are absolutely packed with luxury gear so that should change once it gets down to the metal.

[N1GTR]

Of course it is... It's a BMW

[Adz]

I hate to say it but i can see a custom bell housing with box and conventional clutch and a pedal box/clutch pedal asembly.

[Duncan]

no chance of that without major bodywork changes. the chasis just does not have space at the firewall and centre console for a gearbox.