{"id":37367,"date":"2021-08-24T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=37367"},"modified":"2021-09-04T12:29:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:29:57","slug":"q-is-it-okay-to-skip-gears-when-downshifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-is-it-okay-to-skip-gears-when-downshifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Is it okay to skip gears when downshifting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37368 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ask-Ross-Template-impact-text.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ask-Ross-Template-impact-text.png 282w, https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ask-Ross-Template-impact-text-64x40.png 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><strong>Q<\/strong>: <em>\u201cIs it okay to skip gears when downshifting? For example, instead of a 5-4-3-2 brake and downshift, if your transmission allows, could you bypass shifting into 4<sup>th<\/sup> and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> and just shift into 2<sup>nd<\/sup> from 5<sup>th<\/sup> at the same point?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: Yes. I do recommend doing this \u2013 skip-shifting on downshifts \u2013 as long as you\u2019re proficient at the timing of your downshifts. The key is to wait long enough to make the final one downshift. As you can imagine, if you downshift from 5<sup>th<\/sup> to 2<sup>nd<\/sup> too early, and\/or you don\u2019t match the revs with a good heel &amp; toe, you\u2019ll either over-rev the engine, or upset the car\u2019s balance.<\/p>\n<p>I have another tip article about skip-shifting here: <a href=\"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/skip-shift-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>\u201cSkip Shift: What Is It?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: \u201cIs it okay to skip gears when downshifting? For example, instead of a 5-4-3-2 brake and downshift, if your transmission allows, could you bypass shifting into 4th and 3rd and just shift into 2nd from 5th at the same point?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-ross"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37369,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367\/revisions\/37369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}