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1. Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: Engstrom <engstrom@onramp.net>; Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:52:03 -0500; Wow! After a really talented driver drove my car (99 Corvette - manual transmission) a couple of events ago she said it was really easy to left foot brake and it helped keep the car settled transitio; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00202.html (9,933 bytes)
2. Re: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: "richard nichols" <rnichol1@san.rr.com>; Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:59:24 -0700; For what it's worth, I avoid left foot braking on a stick because my humble grey matter can't consistently differentiate between telling the left foot "time to declutch, all the way to the floor this; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00203.html (11,854 bytes)
3. Re: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: "Justin Hughes" <ka1ult@channel1.com>; Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:12:46 -0400; I do not - force of habit, more than anything else. I was known to hold the brake with my left foot while using my right on the gas just before takeoff in an automatic, but that obviously doesn't ap; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00204.html (8,997 bytes)
4. Re: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: "Justin Hughes" <ka1ult@channel1.com>; Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:18:06 -0400; That's another good point - heel and toe lets you do both at once. Though on most cars you probably have to really contort your foot in strange ways for smooth transitions. And what about courses wh; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00205.html (8,385 bytes)
5. Re: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: "Mark J. Andy" <marka@telerama.com>; Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:41:00 -0400 (EDT); I do in my Neon. I really like being able to get on the gas or the brake whenever I want to... but more on that in a minute. I don't do either of these and don't agree with the premise. In my newbie; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00207.html (10,010 bytes)
6. Re: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: "Kent Rafferty" <gs96@sgi.net>; Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:46:27 -0400; Both my wife and I left foot brake most of the time on course. We currently have a Corvette and Supra (both 6-speeds). There is no consensus whether left foot braking is better or worse than right fo; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00209.html (9,071 bytes)
7. RE: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: "Stevens, Kevin" <kstevens@ventritex.com>; Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:16:36 -0700; Yah. Current, '99 Corvette, SS; prior, '89 Corvette, SS; '94 Camaro, ESP. braking Not for me. My goal in LFB is NOT to be actively applying throttle and brake at the same time, it's to make the tran; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00212.html (9,110 bytes)
8. Re: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: whitney <whitneys@mindspring.com>; Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:44:13 -0700; Yes, I too am an LFB'r, in the following cars: DSP accord, ES Escort GT, BS miata, GS Talon, DP crx, CSP miata etc. Yes, it makes for a quick and gentle spped adjustment, without as much attitude ch; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00215.html (9,219 bytes)
9. Re: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: Scott Knight <sknight@mich.com>; Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 17:30:11 -0400; Well, at least that is what they try to make us do. I drove around the farm for years and was dragracing before I ever took driver's education and already had this "bad habit" deeply embedded by the; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00217.html (9,188 bytes)
10. RE: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: Engstrom <engstrom@onramp.net>; Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:39:48 -0500; I agree that left foot clutching and left foot braking can be extremely confusing. For me in my Corvette I find myself shifting to 2nd and leaving it there on most courses. That means I have one shi; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00222.html (8,884 bytes)
11. RE: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: Engstrom <engstrom@onramp.net>; Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:43:48 -0500; I have no problem with a steep learning/unlearning curve. I'm new enough to autocross that if I suck because I'm learning to left foot brake it won't be much different that sucking because I'm not v; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00223.html (9,351 bytes)
12. RE: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: Engstrom <engstrom@onramp.net>; Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:49:52 -0500; Justin, I wasn't talking about using LFB in a sweeper to steer - I was talking about using it to control speed a little more precisely than with the throttle. Slight lifts and slight acceleration in; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00224.html (10,064 bytes)
13. RE: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: Engstrom <engstrom@onramp.net>; Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 18:00:34 -0500; I agree, the GOAL for me is not to be braking and applying throttle at the same time, but as I said in a previous post, if I can use it as a crutch until I learn exactly where 10/10ths is, I will. I; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00225.html (9,284 bytes)
14. Re: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: garyk98@home.com (Gary K); Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 02:00:15 GMT; Hey John, you will find where 10/10ths is when you cross that line and get to 11/10ths. Spin to win. Just a few times can do it. Have you spun that Vette? I can't remember. Gary Kramar '89 F440 FM; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00233.html (8,561 bytes)
15. Re: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: garyk98@home.com (Gary K); Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 02:43:21 GMT; I have to, but not unless it is absolutely necessary. :) Left foot is positioned over the brake and the right foot over the gas (DUH) with no room for side to side movement, plus the steering shaft; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00239.html (8,794 bytes)
16. Re: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: Smokerbros@aol.com; Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 01:30:03 EDT; I do. Since '77 Stock Sciroccos, Hondas, RX-7, MR-2, SP RX-3s mostly. I'll probably left foot brake a CP Mustang in the next century... In the middle, yes, but only in FWD cars, and what I'm really t; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00242.html (8,639 bytes)
17. Re: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: Hottvr@aol.com; Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 18:31:49 EDT; Left Foot brake? I can't get my size 13 feet under the steering shaft in the or the Formula Ford Tiga. Tried to do it last year in the Tiga and got my foot stuck between the frame and the gas! It was; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00248.html (8,237 bytes)
18. Re: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: Engstrom <engstrom@onramp.net>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 00:28:12 -0500; Gary, if, by "that Vette", you mean the blue '99 then yes I've spun it but only twice now. The first time was Saturday at Merdian where I lost it at the finish - but that was only cause of the rain.; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00250.html (8,578 bytes)
19. RE: Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: Richard Pilfold <rpilfold@gdmoore.com>; Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:32:56 -0700; I read somewhere that Michael Schumaker is very hard on the brakes because he left foot brakes while holding the throttle wide open :-) I find LFB helps remedy terminal understeer in the middle of a; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00318.html (9,929 bytes)
20. Left foot braking (score: 1): Author: Brian Priebe <priebe.4@osu.edu>; Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 08:03:00 -0400; Michael Schumaker can get away with riding the brake because he has the car set up uncontrollably loose compared to anyone else. I use to ride the breaks all the time and I could get away with it in; /html/autox/1999-06/msg00355.html (8,680 bytes)

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