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Re: Heel & Toe technique
On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Bob D'Amato wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Graydon D. Stuckey wrote:
>
> >
> > I have always used the ball of my foot on the throttle and the heel
> > on the brake, from my RX7 days. When I got into the Quattro, it took
> > about two days to get used to the new driving position, and the
> > responsiveness of the engine to blips, but it works just fine now.
> >
>
> Isnt that backwards??? Ol' Skip Barber taught me to have the heel on the
> throttle...
>
> Bob
>It sounds backwards to me also. The brakes are much easier to modulate
with the ball of your foot than your heel.
Brendan Rudack
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