Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC: Left foot braking...

[E M (pokiebaron]

Hey Larry,

Like anything, there's a right and wrong way to do it.  If you're resting your foot on the brake, you're not left foot braking, you're using the brake pedal as a dead pedal.  That will wear out the brake pads pretty fast, and make the guy behind you wonder what's going on, especially at times when he sees you pulling away from him with all the brake lights ablaze. hee hee

It was quite a common practice in older turbo cars with lag.  Keep the throttle open to keep it on the boil, but a light touch on the brakes would transfer a bit of the weight forward and help set the front outside contract patch when turning in.  Again, gotta be smoooth, as it was linked with trail braking.  So if you got it near the limit, and got your line, turn in point, etc wrong, and lifted or came off a tad hard,  you'd unsettle the car, reduce the contact patch on the front outside tire.  Car would understeer, often people would then lift, turbo came off boost and the back came unplanted, and all hell broke lose!! lol.  

Course there's that school of thought were you do all the braking and stuff in a straight line, and just use your left foot to brace yourself from fall out of the seat. hee hee

Ed
911SC

On 14 December 2010 15:10, <l02turner [at] comcast.net> wrote:

Hello Fellippe,

re: Left Foot Braking:

I never liked LF braking – to easy to apply the brakes slightly and either wear the pads quickly or cause lots of heat build-up to boil the Brake Fluid & damage things....   and it’s especially bad on the street where the driver behind never really knows f you’re braking or resting your foot on the brake....

 

Aren’t brake lights becoming common in race cars?

 

Merry Christmas,

LarryT

 

From: Fellippe Galletta

Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 4:36 PM

To: Larry Turner

Cc: The FerrariList

Subject: [Ferrari] NFC: Left foot braking...

 

You know, all the complaining about paddle shifts got me thinking that at the very least the owners should learn how to left foot brake...

Anyone on here comfortable with it?

FG

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