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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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