Left foot braking

[Larry C Leung]

I use this technique with my GTi, but was told to get my foot OFF the
brake alot more (in Auto-X school) and went faster. Car got looser too.


LL - NY

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 16:04:35 -0500 "ccohen5" <ccohen5 at compuserve.com>
writes:
>This technique is a almost exclusively a gravel, and snow process
>which
>requires the maintenance of a considerable amount of power when
>combined
>with a Quattro.  The O'Neil Rally School in NH teaches it with a
>4000Q
>amongst other vehicles and there is a need for plenty of room to
>sample this
>technique. You should not let off the gas, but use the brake to
>transfer
>weight onto the front wheels without losing forward momentum.
>Simultaneously you need to move the wheel in the direction of the
>turn
>releasing the brake just before the nose points at the apex.  The J
>turn can
>be initiated by turning the wheel initially way from the direction you
>want
>to go while under LFB, and then as you release, hit the gas and then
>swing
>the wheel quickly in the direction of the turn.
>
>The physics are quite obvious when you see it done, but mastering this
>with
>the Quattro is considerably more difficult than front wheel drive as
>the
>Audi team discovered in 1982/3.
>
>Colin
>