Originally Posted by roncosrt6
It didn't sound like you
using autostick, were you?? The ascent (in my opinion) is an easier drive to accelerate out of the turns, and use natural up hill to help slow into curve. .
I used the manual downshift on some of the tight hairpins but otherwise let the auto take charge. The brakes were a worry as we had just descended 2300 feet from the Gothard pass at a similar sort of speed. So, yes the uphill retardation helped. You can probably hear me talk about that just after the left hander at about 5:22 where we got a wee bit off line.
Have to say I wasn't pushing the car to the limit: it was just so composed, amazing. Other than that one left hander with the big bump in the middle, we were pretty much on the correct side of the white line the entire way up.
I've never felt the SRT6 was what I would call 'chuckable', probably because it's automatic but that run forced me to re-think. What a fantastic car!
Andy G