rec.autos.simulators

He's quoted as saying "I do not do left-foot braking. I use my left
foot to stand on when I step out of the shower."

Yeah, I know if I don't learn I'll probably never better my painful
121.8 GPLRank :-(

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Fester

Jan.
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Thanks,
Alex

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Damn!!!! >:-(

But clutches are only useful for standing starts, so won't be much
help for GPLRank :-(

Jonny

I was refering to the fact that use of a clutch in WSC (or GPL) will require
right foot braking (unless you can match revs).  Also, the gas while braking
technique used in GPL may melt rear brake pads so there may yet be hope for
us right foot brakers.  I was thinking of setting up a new driver in GPL
named Kirk_RFB_House and only doing right foot brake hotlaps with it.  If
all the right foot brakers would do this on GPL Rank we'd have a way to
compare our times.  The guys who did it in real life didn't brake with their
left feet so maybe this explains part of the reason why the times from GPL
and the real times from 1967 are different.   This doesn't mean that it
would have been impossible to left foot brake in those cars but maybe the
drivers simply hadn't figured it out yet as the learning curve would most
likely have been fatal.

David G Fisher

Jan.
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"Pay attention when I'm talking to you boy!" -Foghorn Leghorn.

BTW, I can hop feet as I don't drag the gas while braking in a straight
line, I only feed in the gas while going into the corner, so I can use the
clutch while downshifting then quick hop feet for the corner. I tried it in
GPL for a day and was about a second off my PBs at each track doing that,
but also PB's are your very best and I wasn't quite used to it yet, so I'd
figure it's about 4 tenths of a second slower a lap at a track that takes
mid 1m to complete.

Thanks,
Alex