I don't agree. You can shift way faster with manual clutch pedal than using auto-clutch. I've noticed I can always pull off a tiny bit distance on the straights against people who are using auto-clutch, it's a tiny difference, but in the world of racing it's every second that matters. You certainly won't be losing anything by going for manual clutch.
I agree with Matrixi. I'm a religious user of the manual clutch but earlier had a go with auto-clutch for a change and found it painfully slow. Manual clutch and manual rev cutting IMO is faster than automatic clutch.
If you aim for realism, you cant agree with this point. Shifting is an action of driving, like braking and turning wheel, and so it should be simulated correclty.... do you use automatic throtteling?
Very wrong, manual clutch and no lift is way faster.
I can drive as fast with the shifter as with the seq. gear paddles. It took some time to learn fast shifting with the Act-Labs shifter but you just have to practice it.
I very rarely use the shifter tho, I prefer the paddles for more precision and also due to the fact that the shifter doesn't feel realistic in any way.. the noise is just horrible when going in to gear.. *CLONK!*