As he reached the brow of the hill, Ramshaw said he had just gone into fourth gear but was not driving fast.

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"I was going too fast and my shorts got caught on the gear shift, " Rives recalled.

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But Hockenheim has only a couple of fast corners, the rest being second or third gear.

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As in auto mode, in the manual setting you can adjust the quickness of shifts, from slow and smooth to so fast no human being could emulate the blinding-blur gear changes.

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Unfortunately for lovers of dust and beautifully over-engineered gear, the room-sized recording console is dying out fast, replaced by software and small, neat, racks of pre-amps and analog summing mixers.

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