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Gamerscore: 10G
Achievement Description: Win a race using manual transmission

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Transmission type can be changed under 'Driver Assists' in the pre race menu. Shifting up is done with the A button and shifting down is done with the X button.

There are two easy ways to achieve this. The first is to start a Race Day event, select a short narrow track (for example San Francisco Short Circuit) and select a fast, but controllable car. Set the difficulty to 'Basic', 'Grid position' to 'Front' and the number of laps to one. This way you are ensured of a first place start. The narrow track will help you to block off opponents. Don't try this when you are new to GRID and the racing genre, get familiar with the game and the racing style and you will soon know when to change gears.

If you are familiar with racing games and want to get the achievement fast, start your career and do the first 'Driver offer' race in Europe, after this first race you will unlock a time trial for BMW on the Nurburgring. It's a three lap challenge and you have to set a time of 1:47:00 for the bonus. This is not necessary for the achievement, the only thing you have to do is finish. Mind you that this can only be done in the very beginning of the career mode, later on you will have some opporunities to do another time trial in the Driver Offers, but these pop up quite random.
Can be done in GRID World (career), Race Day (single race) and multiplayer.