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by **Jon Anderse** » Sat, 05 Aug 2000 04:00:00

From what I've read, you recently converted to left foot braking (at last).
One of the advantages of left foot braking, is that you can stabilize the
car during braking by applying some throttle. When you where in the "zone"
you probably unconciously did that. Once you master this technique,
trailbraking isn't as hard as it used to be. Thus even lower lap times.

Keep om GPL-ing. But watch out: If you get too good, your celebrety status
as the benchmark backmarker will be lost. One good lap at the Ring, and your
reputation is lost. <g>

Jon Andersen

by **Uwe Schuerka** » Sat, 05 Aug 2000 04:00:00

>Congrats Eldred! You may not know me well but we have raced several times
>before. I have read your posts and I knew this day would come.
>Brian Bowles

>> I ran some laps tonight with the Lotus. I started at Mosport - PB *was*
>> 1:29.32 in Ferrari. I ran about 30 laps. Turned a 1:32.xx first lap. Ran
>off

I predict the St. eldred trophy will become a very rapidly moving
target over the next couple of weeks, you might actually find yourself
in it ;-)

enjoy,

uwe

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by **David Butte** » Sun, 06 Aug 2000 04:00:00

I honestly cannot understand how people can get any sort of good tiems
with right-foot braking in GPL. I wouldn't be even close to my current
times at a place like Spa if I did it.

You have to try not to associate "driving GPL" with "driving a road
car". Think of it as a "ground-based flight sim". Once you do that,
then you'll stop trying to handle it like a Ford Escort... in any case,
you only have to worry about two pedals here, whereas most road cars
have three (in Europe, anyway), so that's one difference to start with.

--
David. (GPLRank handicap: -5.12)
"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll,
really."
(Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

by **Eldre** » Sun, 06 Aug 2000 04:00:00

><snip>
>>One of the advantages of left foot braking, is that you can
>>stabilize the car during braking by applying some throttle. When you
>>where in the "zone" you probably unconciously did that. Once you
>>master this technique, trailbraking isn't as hard as it used to be.
>>Thus even lower lap times.
><snip>

>I honestly cannot understand how people can get any sort of good tiems
>with right-foot braking in GPL. I wouldn't be even close to my current
>times at a place like Spa if I did it.

I'd say that switching to left-foot braking only gained me about a
second(accumulated time savings from not having to move my foot from gas to
brake). The big gains the other night were from driving the Lotus. Actually,
maybe not, because I can't do it on the other tracks I didn't TRY then....

Eldred - still looking for the magic bullet
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by **Eldre** » Sun, 06 Aug 2000 04:00:00

>> Well, excuse me for thinking I had actually figured something OUT... I
>tried
>> some more tracks tonight with the Lotus, and I couldn't re-create the
>'zone' I
>> was in last night. I ran Silverstone, Monaco, Watkins Glen, and
>Nurburgring.
>> At the Glen I lowered my PB for the Lotus by .32, but my Ferrari time is
>still
>> better. At the other tracks, I couldn't even get CLOSE...<sigh> I had a
>> 'clean' lap at the Ring that was still 10 seconds SLOWER than my PB.
>> Oh well, it couldn't last *forever*.

>> Eldred

>From what I've read, you recently converted to left foot braking (at last).
>One of the advantages of left foot braking, is that you can stabilize the
>car during braking by applying some throttle. When you where in the "zone"
>you probably unconciously did that. Once you master this technique,
>trailbraking isn't as hard as it used to be. Thus even lower lap times.

Well, I'd sure like to know how to get BACK in the zone. Someone's locked me
out! :)

Being a backmarker is a GOOD thing? I'm still ranked at 500-something. I'm
trying to STOP being a 'King Hiro - celebrity be damned...<g>

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by **Michael Youn** » Sun, 06 Aug 2000 04:00:00

Actually,

I think you're a little bit wrong there. In time, you'll get smoother going
from brake to gas and back, and find that you can handle just a little more
speed through some corners. I'm guessing this is what happened to allow the
Lotus to suddenly gain wickedly.

Michael.

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