[s-cars] heel-toe driving

[Theodore Chen]

i'm inclined to be more charitable.  i don't think there's any wrong
way to heel-toe as long as you have control over the car.  i do
know several people who actually use their heels to blip the throttle.
i also recall a video of boris said during a trans-am race.  there was
a close-up of his feet on the pedal, and he used his heel.

have you read bob bondurant on high performance driving?  in that book,
he teaches the "two-step polka".  the diagram shows the right foot in
the following sequence:
on the gas pedal
on the brake pedal
heel on gas while ball of foot remains on brake
on the brake pedal
on the gas pedal

that being said, my feet are only size 10 and i use the ball of my foot
on the brake while using the side of my foot to blip the gas (more my
toes than my heel).  i modified the pedals on my mustang to place the
gas pedal very close to the brake pedal.

the unintended acceleration folks would have a fit over that arrangement.
after that debacle, manufacturers started moving the brake pedal further
away from the gas pedal, making it more difficult for us shoe-size-challenged
enthusiasts to heel-toe.

-teddy

--- CyberPoet <thecyberpoet at cyberpoet.net> wrote:
> Having been taught left foot braking and heel-toe driving by what I
> believe to among the best in the world (thanks Colin & Christian!), I
> CAN'T say that it ever involves using the ball of the foot on the gas
> with the toes on the brake, but rather the right edge of the right foot
> on the gas, and the left upper half on the brake if you have to hit
> both at once (the heel part is for pivoting without moving the ball of
> the foot, at least as I was taught). Have we all been doing it wrong
> all these years? I doubt it... But I wouldn't put it past the
> rice-burner poseur drivers who figured it out for themselves simply by
> reading about it in R&T, C&D, etc to having gotten it wrong.
>
> Cheers!
> =-= Marc Glasgow
>
>
> Dave Wrote:
> As one who uses the misnamed heel-toe technique subconsciously in daily
> driving, I, for one, have never used the technique shown in the diagram
> on
> the ebay page for this product.  The act of actually putting one's heel
> on
> the gas pedal while toeing the brake (or even using the ball of the
> foot)
> seems utterly ridiculous at best, and requires quite an awkward
> contortion.
> Heel-toe as I learned it (thank you Ms. St. James, high heels and all)
> doesn't involve the heel at all.
> Am I all wet, or is this a POSEUR/RICER mod?  Can I get mine purple
> anodized?  If so, how well will they conduct heat?
> I actually think our cars are set up pretty well for heel-toeing, using
> my
> stock pedals and stock 12EEEs (you know what they say about guys with
> big
> feet...they have an easier time matching revs!)
> Discuss,
>
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