People don’t know how to drive them. They treat them like automatic transmissions. They’re not. They are manuals. So people get freaked out by the initial shudder. They do things like creep along at 2 mph like an automatic can do with its torque converter.
They do things like take their foot off the brake on an uphill incline like you can do with an auto while the torque converter keeps you from rolling backwards. The way people drive has a lot to do with the problems people have caused with dual-clutch cars. They are not as forgiving as an auto, just like conventional stick shift is not as forgiving.
I would kill to have a dual-clutch in my Challenger. I would love it.
There is a lot more to it than that. You don’t have control over it you do the manual/clutch. Bumper to bumper traffic is a good example. You just don’t see that in a race.
It’s just not the average joe’s automatic. The computer programs that run it is also a problem too. There are just too many different scenarios in regular traffic that never occur during a road race.