Why not just turn auto-clutch and auto-blip on?
Because it uses the clutch on up and down shifts which means you have to lift on the up-shift because it doesn't auto-lift off too. I find lifting very un-natural with a flappy paddle gearbox. I can do it, but I don't like it. I also find the blip on the down shifts to be quite extreme (100% throttle I think it is) causing the car to get quite upset on the downshifting, especially whilst cornering, but maybe that's just my incompetance.
As I said, I would rather do it as intended, using technique, which is what I'm practicing at, but I don't normally get much practice time. People are moaning that they only had an hour practice, awww, but last week I hadn't even driven the car before I joined the server, 3 minutes before qualifying, so it's hard to be able to pick these things up when you don't get to practice at all! Switching cars is also more difficult because they all require a slightly different technique.
I was fortunate this weekend to have a load of time to practice and I even did my first public race for over 2 months. IndyCar + Mid Ohio. Still LOVE that car, it's just so thrilling to drive and not worrying about the gear change was very nice.
I started 12th out of 20 and finished 9th, so a good result finishing top 10. Was hoping to pick a few more spots up from crashes, but everyone seemed to stay on more than they used to.
Incidentally, I tried the click-blip, click-blip technique on the Corvette and it didn't work very well. Seemed to work better with click+blip and a much larger blip, but not terribly well. I guess there is a better technique for that car as all the cars seem to need something slightly different (as expected).
The Radical seems quite compliant to the click-blip, click-blip approach so I'm looking ok for this week.
Seems very easy to lose the back-end on the Radical round the very fast corners though, so unlike Paul, I'm having to lift in T1 and the last corner too for fear of losing it.