Driving with one foot does not take the sense out of separate axis, not at all! I'm
one hundred % sure that that the drivers of the era pressed the brakes and gas at
the same time. That is why we have a heel-toe technique, to be able to press the
throttle while braking (to change gears more effectively, and to adjust amount of
oversteer during turn-in), and I am pretty sure they pressed the brakes while
standing heavily on the throttle.
And in the turns where they didn't have to change, I think their left foot was all
over the place. I think that trailbraking was almost a must for the drivers in -67
to go really fast. I think I read somewhere that Jim Clarke was outstanding in the
fact that he braked further into the corner than anyone else, and how do you do
that effectively? Trailbraking!
I read from Taruffis book how to cope with the pedals, and he explains in detail
the different techniques for the different kind of pedal setups. Obviously with
trailbraking in mind.
I used to be a one foot sim racer, but I discovered that I became a little bit
faster with left foot braking, and WAAAAAY more consistent. When you have control
over the throttle and brake at the same time, you are in the optimum postition to
control the car. Take that fast left before the hairpin at Rouen, the only way to
go through there fast is trailbraking, and pretty heavily so!
No matter, left foot braking or not: Separate axis is a must, at least in GPL...
---Asgeir---
> It goes without saying that the two feet driving technique is pre*** among
> sim drivers.
> However, i was wondering if there are people out there driving with one foot ?
> Driving with right foot heel-and-toe myself, thus far i only know one other
> person in the sim racing community who does alike....Eric Cote.
> One-foot driving kind of takes the sense out of using seperate axis though :-)
> So, is there anybody out there ?
> anyone who's tried in vain ( to get better lap times using two feet )
> anyone that feels the same
> is there anybody trying to give it up and start again cause i can't let go of
> one-foot driving ?
> How do ya feel about that ?
> Thanks in advance for any comments regarding this issue.
> --
> Greg Hellmann
> "Cause when the feelin's right,
> i'm gonna race all night."
