[s-cars] Re: heel-toe driving

[William Noland]

Hate to come off like a list dinosaur, but heel and toe actually goes
waaaaay back -- somewhere between the Flintstone era and modern-day cars
-- to the time when the brake pedal was to the right of the gas pedal.
The heel and toe thing suddenly makes some sense. These days it's more
ball and side of the foot, but "ball and side" just doesn't have the
ring to it that "heel and toe" does. Could be considered remotely
obscene in some circles.  :-)

Bill N
ballin' away in Northern California

>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.
>