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How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

B. Jon

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by B. Jon » Fri, 03 Oct 2003 23:59:54

I've had my Momo Racing combo for about 3 weeks now.
As in my car, I've been using my right foot to accelerate and brake.
A friend told me that race car drivers typically use both feet - one
for braking and one for acceleration.
Is this true?

How do you all use your pedals? One foot or two?

J.R.

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by J.R. » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:06:20


I use two for the sake of not wearing my feet out switching all the time
throughout a race.

J.R.

Phillip Malphrus, Jr

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by Phillip Malphrus, Jr » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:15:18

Two feet for me ...

Phillip


Dan_Leac

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by Dan_Leac » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:15:46

2

Ashley McConnel

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by Ashley McConnel » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:23:58


2!

Ash
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Don Burnett

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by Don Burnett » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:28:43


> I've had my Momo Racing combo for about 3 weeks now.
> As in my car, I've been using my right foot to accelerate and brake.
> A friend told me that race car drivers typically use both feet - one
> for braking and one for acceleration.
> Is this true?

> How do you all use your pedals? One foot or two?

I use the 2 foot technique, have since I started racing sims back in 96.

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Darf

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by Darf » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:33:19

I use 2 feet for the same reason that most simmers and race drivers do,
it gives you better times through corners, as there is no delay in swapping
from throttle to brake pedal.
When I drive my real car I use 1 foot as I am not usually going quite as
fast :-)

Darf




> > I've had my Momo Racing combo for about 3 weeks now.
> > As in my car, I've been using my right foot to accelerate and brake.
> > A friend told me that race car drivers typically use both feet - one
> > for braking and one for acceleration.
> > Is this true?

> > How do you all use your pedals? One foot or two?

> 2!

> Ash
> http://www.siroccoracing.com

Alan J. Claffi

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by Alan J. Claffi » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:41:51


I'm a right-foot-only driver when sim racing. I've been told that it might
be costing me some time at some tracks under some circumstances, but I live
in fear of screwing up my footwork in the event that my next car will be a
manual-transmission'd vehicle and my coordination in a position where a
Shift-R can't get me a new car will be all messed up and I wind up in real
world trouble. It probably won't ever happen, but why chance it?

SimRace

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by SimRace » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:49:51





> > I've had my Momo Racing combo for about 3 weeks now.
> > As in my car, I've been using my right foot to accelerate and brake.
> > A friend told me that race car drivers typically use both feet - one
> > for braking and one for acceleration.
> > Is this true?

> > How do you all use your pedals? One foot or two?

> I'm a right-foot-only driver when sim racing. I've been told that it might
> be costing me some time at some tracks under some circumstances, but I
live
> in fear of screwing up my footwork in the event that my next car will be a
> manual-transmission'd vehicle and my coordination in a position where a
> Shift-R can't get me a new car will be all messed up and I wind up in real
> world trouble. It probably won't ever happen, but why chance it?

LOL! That's good. Trust me, it's easy to shift from 1 to 2 foot driving when
going between manual and auto trannies in street cars. I own a couple of
each and I am 2 footed in my automatic autos (and in the sim, where I don't
have a clutch pedal and use the lone help 'auto-clutch' sometimes, somtimes
not) and obviously brake and gas with one foot in my manual autos. The
heel-toe method for 2 foot driving a manual only works in my Vette where the
pedals are setup a little closer together and are condusive to this style.
Even then I only do it when I'm in the mountains and the roads are condusive
to shifting that much at one time. Of course I grew up doing stuff such as
that and may be more comfortable than most in that situation.

Do what you please, but you're over-thinking the street car thing a tad
much. Do what you need to do to go fast in the sim and it will not hurt your
street driving instincts one bit IMHO.

Eldre

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by Eldre » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 01:10:55

I switched over to left-foot braking a couple years ago.  It probably dropped
my GPLRank by about 10 seconds.  Not a lot, granted - but faster.

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SS

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by SS » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 01:29:58

One foot.  I've been trying to make the transition to left foot braking
lately, but am still very clumsy at it.  I've been assured that with some
practice, there are a lot of spots where I can shave some time off through
corners with left foot braking.  Old habits die hard, though, and I'm still
a couple seconds per track faster in GPL with right foot braking.

itazura

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Larr

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by Larr » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 01:42:14

Two...

At some courses, using fixed setups, you HAVE to.  Some of the setups are
terribly loose on entry, and if you don't pre-load the brakes and let the
slight front brake bias help you, you are gonna spin out.

If I remember correctly, the Rock was a very prime example of this.

Richmond is also easier to handle with the brakes just slightly pre-loaded
before letting up.

-Larry


Dalibor Bauernfrajn

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by Dalibor Bauernfrajn » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 01:34:04


says...

Two here.

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Mike Grand

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by Mike Grand » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 01:59:45

I use 3 feet, one for the accelerator, one for the brake and one for the
clutch.


Mitch_

How do you use your pedals - one foot or two?

by Mitch_ » Sat, 04 Oct 2003 02:20:32

We already knew youre an alien Mikey :)


> I use 3 feet, one for the accelerator, one for the brake and one for the
> clutch.



> > I've had my Momo Racing combo for about 3 weeks now.
> > As in my car, I've been using my right foot to accelerate and brake.
> > A friend told me that race car drivers typically use both feet - one
> > for braking and one for acceleration.
> > Is this true?

> > How do you all use your pedals? One foot or two?


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