Ive been hearing different opinions .... How do you drive a race car ? With the wheel or with the brakes ?
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Ive been hearing different opinions .... How do you drive a race car ? With the wheel or with the brakes ?
Turning with brakes is OK on tacky tracks dry slick brake in straight line let car rotate once you get car sliding on dry slick you are done.My opinion dry slick separates the men from the boys most anybody in good equipment and a big set of balls can be fast on tacky tracks in my opinion.
I've heard some of the fast guys drive with the clutch pedal. Not sure if it's true but that's the word on the street
uh... no......
Not sure about using the clutch pedal, but I know of a few that will drag the brakes off the corner in the slick, sort of like a left footed traction control.
a driver only has three tools. brake, throttle, and steering. Using all three in combination nets the best results.
Adjusting your line to what your car will do well is the key, if it takes braking to do that do it.
Back when I raced steel blocks on hard tires I always had both pedals doing something. Never let all the way out of throttle and always trail brake down the straits. Once I got hooked up with Josh McGuire he taught me to drive with my right foot. I think newer cars drive so well that the use of brakes to turn is kinda old. But that being said everybody is different, bloomy and madden seem to be rocket ships and they burn the brakes down. But you can almost tell they don't use em much anymore especially in the slick when they drive off in the corner and go wall to wall from entry to exit.
What is this new Bloomsmission all about?
We already have a hypoid rear differential. The Bloomoid trans was the logical next step.
If you don't use all three your probably not up front just my $.02