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What is the joystick in the centre console for?
Do you have sidewinders at your disposal? Pretty sure thats against the rules in most forms of motorsport.
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What is the joystick in the centre console for?
Do you have sidewinders at your disposal? Pretty sure thats against the rules in most forms of motorsport.Sadly no sidewinders. It's the electric reverse mechanism. Pull the lever backwards, press the trigger, and the car moves backwards rather slowly doing a reasonably convincing impression of a milk float. Having a reverse is a requirement for racing, and since engine and gearbox are from a motorbike they don't have a reverse gear. The electric reverse mechanism (home-made, of course) is on the right painted blue in this picture:
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If it's a stick shift then generally that's how it works, yes, although I know cars which work the other way round. Usually where the car started off with a Fireblade 893cc engine, and then got upgraded to a 919cc, where the gear shift works the other way round for some inscrutable reason only known to Mr. Honda.
However, the Fury doesn't have a stick shift - it's got mechanical paddles, in the form of the shiny thing behind the steering wheel:
That's connected directly to the gear selector shaft via a bellcrank:
So you could pull and push on one side, but generally you just pull on the appropriate side. And the question is - which side?