Double Clutching Like You Should

Doubleclutch downshifts seem to be the butt of all car related jokes since F F made the line famous. I have seen a lot of contradictory information across the automotive forums about how doubleclutching a synchroequipped transmission is useless, it s a technique only for bigrigs, it s slower then a traditional heeltoe downshift, etc, etc. I doubleclutch all my downshifts on synchroequipped transmissions for two reasons. The first is it is easier on the gearbox. Doubleclutching spins up the layshaft to match enginespeed and roadspeed, virtually eliminating synchro wear on downshifts. The second is that downshifting is faster because there is no waiting on the sychro while applying pressure to the shift lever while the layshaft comes up to speed. Granted it only takes a fraction of a second for the synchro to do this, but there is zero delay with a properly executed doubleclutch downshift. Now, before you start arguing that doubleclutching CAN T be as fast as single clutching because it is so much