On the subject of the bug... I'm not sure if it's really a bug. The McLaren has auto-blip, so you shouldn't have to blip the throttle yourself.
What makes me see this as a bug rather than a strange "feature", is that I believe it's simply physically impossible for a real sequential gearbox to jump directly from 3rd gear to neutral. Correct me if I am wrong.
It is absolutely true that you should not blip the throttle by yourself in the McLaren. You should let the electronics do it for you. And if you let the semi-automatic work it's magic, the gearchanges are just fine.
However, sometimes the car will get unstable under braking, and the only way to get the rear back in shape is to apply a little bit of throttle. It's when you are unlucky to do this while also changing down a gear, that the gearbox sometimes gets stuck in neutral.
I think I also read somewhere that getting stuck in neutral is sometimes because of the driver not "pulling" on the paddle/gearstick long enough for the next gear to engage.
This is a different problem: On the
upshifts, you have to press and hold the paddle for a tenth or two (not just tap it). In an earlier build, when you just tapped the upshift paddle, the gearbox could also end up in neutral.
This problem has since been fixed; now when you don't press the paddle long enough, the next gear will simply not engage, you stay in the previous gear, but you no longer end up with a box of neutrals.
What I am looking for, is a similar fix for the
downshifts.
