Thanks, Mechanix, I cannot explain racing technique to save my life. :ermm:
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Originally posted by monkman33
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ok, lemme let you in on a little secret about setting up for a corner honda boy. in a front wheel drive car, downshifting before entering anypart of the corner is standard to use the engine to slow you do while entering the corner. this leaves your foot on the accellerator and not the brake pedal. in racing, the transition time from foot braking and shifting down after a corner is way too long and will almost always get you passed coming out of a corner. Specifically to front wheel drive cars, transmission braking is very useful since braking gets the weight onto the front wheels for steering through the corner and if you are already in gear and your transmission is doing the braking for you, your foot is already punching the gas coming out of the corner...which is how you drive a front engine, front wheel drive vehicle in "most" cormers. hit the brakes going in, apex early, power out on the furthest amount of straight then you can find. anyways, there are way too many possibilities for different braking styles, I'll go now.
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Starting out by being condencending is always a good way to get your point across. By the way, a well executed heel toe will allow you to shift AFTER braking and BEFORE corner entry, so that you can power out of the corner right after you pass the apex.
Of course this doesn't apply if you are trail braking.
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Originally posted by 91cavgt
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I never use downshifting as a means of slowing the car down on the streets. On the track I do use downshifting(depending on the corner), but in combination with braking upon entry to the corner. By the time I am initiating the corner, I am already off of the brakes and on the gas.
But if I just brake and don't downshift(where needed) then I end up downshifting in the middle of a corner which is a big no no and the car gets squirly and I get passed.
I made the mistake of braking deep while cornering at Hallett Raceway( www.hallettracing.com ) and ended up facing the wrong direction in the grass after the rear of the car spun out! Luckily for me, there is tons of runoff room at every corner of that track. A VERY nice track for a first driver's education event![/body]
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As a driver you should be more concerned with shifting at a point where it disrupts the car least and less with engine braking. Obviously where you shift will vary dramatically with car setup.
[Edited by qtiger on Feb 21, 2003 9:06 AM]
