Ayrton Senna demonstrating heel-toe in loafers loafers
10-17-2011, 02:31 PM
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Ayrton Senna demonstrating heel-toe in loafers loafers
Ayrton Senna demonstrating heel-toe while wearing loafers (and white socks)...driving from the right side...speaking Japanese.
10-17-2011, 03:35 PM
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Agreed. Don't seem to make any sense but he sure was able to make it work. I saw an interesting incar video from the '89 Suzuka race of Senna and Prost. Its footage from the entire race and switches between the two drivers periodically. The one thing that is very interesting is that Senna is always busy, hands constantly working the wheel where is comparison Prost has quiet hands and it looks as though he is doing much less work to run similar lap times. From that I get the impression that Senna was a bit rougher with the car which explains where the throttle jab would have come from.
10-17-2011, 05:00 PM
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10-17-2011, 07:35 PM
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This is one of my favorite videos. I love watching his technique.
My sense has been that the jabs at the throttle were a combination of breaking rear adhesion to rotate and also feeling out the limits of adhesion by doing this at every turn (his car control and sense of the car is humbling). He is very consistent in doing this.
My sense has been that the jabs at the throttle were a combination of breaking rear adhesion to rotate and also feeling out the limits of adhesion by doing this at every turn (his car control and sense of the car is humbling). He is very consistent in doing this.
10-17-2011, 07:38 PM
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Senna was such a genius... I bet he could even type the word 'braking' without using his left middle finger.
10-17-2011, 08:58 PM
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...driving at the edge with no helmet or safety gear...
10-17-2011, 09:06 PM
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This is one of my favorite videos. I love watching his technique.
My sense has been that the jabs at the throttle were a combination of breaking rear adhesion to rotate and also feeling out the limits of adhesion by doing this at every turn (his car control and sense of the car is humbling). He is very consistent in doing this.
My sense has been that the jabs at the throttle were a combination of breaking rear adhesion to rotate and also feeling out the limits of adhesion by doing this at every turn (his car control and sense of the car is humbling). He is very consistent in doing this.
I had been thinking the same thing. According to wikipedia the NSX-R is a little prone to understeer.