All this led to my first attempt at the E-Brake turn, calling on all my years of trying this is in numerous race teams rental cars (s hhhh!) I downshifted from 4th into 3rd, then 2nd, pushed in the ...

"That's first gear," my instructor says nonchalantly. "Don't worry about all that clanking and grinding. The cut gears just sound like that." This is how every transmission on the planet should engage ...