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#721
I've been working on it now for about 6 months, and I try to H/T every single shift I do - period. Am getting better.
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IMO the biggest challenge to heel-toe, once you get the basic mechanics & timing down, is to avoid having your right foot come partially off the brake pedal while blipping the throttle. This can really unsettle the car (among other side effects), is slower, and appears on data graphs as the classic double-spike brake profile.
#723
IMO the biggest challenge to heel-toe, once you get the basic mechanics & timing down, is to avoid having your right foot come partially off the brake pedal while blipping the throttle. This can really unsettle the car (among other side effects), is slower, and appears on data graphs as the classic double-spike brake profile.
#724
...you really can speed up your learning curve by training 100% of the time you're in a vehicle of any kind. In your DD with auto trans, brake with your right foot in the H/T configuration (i.e. half half, whatever it takes to do it, force it).
In your wife's car, the configuration will be different - do it.
If your DD is a shifter, do it always...at idle at red lights, practice holding the brake and reving gently. Practice very light braking and very light reving to get a feel....practice hard braking and light reving and the inverse.
Practice a really smooth double clutch from second to first when driving into a stop sign using heel/toe....really smooth at first and then quicker and quicker.
Do it always, 100%. You don't need a track and a Porsche.
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If you are a foot roller, an important thing to remember is to keep your heal planted on the floorboard. Lifting your heal removes our reference plain and makes it tough to keep consistent brake pressure.
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#731
Perhaps that the humor had been replaced with the "loafers" video and coment about heel (heal) position on the floor.
Your response was so dry, I wondered that perhaps you might have been lost in second order functions. Most certainly no to worry.
Disagree about the heel position on the floor making modulation more precise though.
Your response was so dry, I wondered that perhaps you might have been lost in second order functions. Most certainly no to worry.
Disagree about the heel position on the floor making modulation more precise though.
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Interesting about the heel. It's in a couple of books and I find it helps students a lot. Also, if you look at lots of sports racers and formula cars, they put a peice of metal tube on the floor just for a heel rest. But, I would guess depending on technique, everyone is different.
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To me, the most interesting thing in the video Matt posted (other than the loafers of course) was how dramatic Senna's movements were in modulating the throttle coming out of corners. I always thought the movements were supposed to be as smooth as possible so as to not upset the car. But, he's stabbing at it, coming all the way off, etc.