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Hiya

A) Left foot braking, I brake withe the left foot, but im not using Left
foot braking... (using the brake at the same time than the throttle for
balancing the car ...)

are the fastests guys using it ? (me 1:08.14 at the glen demo)  I dont want
to be fastest, im looking for consistent times ... will LF braking help me
?

B) What steering linearity are you using ?

thanks :D

Ayrton McKafre
(busco Geologa, hay alguna por ahi?)

I've been testing GPL for quite a while and I don't hang around for long in
the corners... I use a CH Flightstick Pro joystick which of course is one
input on the single Y axis.  I think Alison, John Wallace and maybe a couple
of the other testers might use left foot braking, or at least use the brake
and accelerator on separate channels for the race starts.  I couldn't say if
they find it in advantage for them - I'm equal in terms of lap time on the
tracks on which I specialise, that's all I can say.

Mike.

I have been in the habbit of left foot braking in Nascar 2 but
mainly it's because I don't need my left foot  for the clutch.
In GPL on the other hand I have the clutch and make plenty of
use of it. As it was mentioned by someone else braking at the
same time as accelerating is the same as lifting off the gas
pedal as I have my accel and brake on the same axis. My clutch
use Joy 2 analog 1. I think I will try seperate axis for accel
and brake as an experiment.

--

Nigel of Lakewood Motorsports
(Memeber of the Nascar Offline Racing Series)
Nascar Coruba & Coke Chevy
Hamilton
New Zealand

I have gas and brake split onto separate axes and I also left foot
brake, often against power. I find it easier to stablise the car into
corners and to make minute adjustments. I don't think the split helps
at the start except at tracks like Spa where you are on a hill and
need to hold the car on the brake - with split axes and left foot
braking you can hold the car on the brake and still maintain optimum
revs.

For starts though a clutch is pretty nifty, although difficult to get
the hang of. As you would expect from GPL every car gets off the line
differently, and after driving a Ferrari for a while and perfecting my
starts I had a hell of a time going back to the Lotus and either
bogging down with too few revs or melting my tyres all over the track
in a frenzy of wheelspin. Starts can't be practised enough though -
you will spend hours trying to catch the fast guys and forlornly
gunning for pole, but if you can get on the front row and outdrag them
you can really spoil their day even without being the fastest car out
there.

Cheers!
John

rob.

<snip>

Of course it is more precise, so you have only one thing to do: Get a
Wheel!!!

---Asgeir---

I'm not sure whether they used their left foot or not, I believe they didn't,
because using the left foot on the brakes would not allow the driver to change
gear before the braking is all done. I guess they preferred to use the right
foot even for the trailbraking, so that the changing of gears and
braking/trailbraking could take place simultaneously...

We, on the other hand, don't have to clutch, so we can use left foot braking,
and there isn't any doubt that this is the most effective way. Braking and
throttleing at the same time extend the possibilities for car control.

Anyway, It is cheating, no doubt (if I am right in my assumption that they
didn't use their left foot for braking), so we have to find out if they really
didn't use their left foot, so that we indeed will be driving these cars like
they did back in -67...

---Asgeir---

Cheers!
John

I seem to remember a telemetry trace on a BBC2 documentary a couple of years
back showing how it was done compared to another fast driver of the era (or
slow depending on your opinion of Jonathon Palmer ;)

M

Yes, I saw that. Bloomin' strange I though that Jonathon Palmer seemed
to take great satisfaction in pointing out how Senna pulled out 0.2s
on him through one corner through superior technique - I'm not sure
too many drivers would happily describe that about their team-mate!

Cheers!
John

Mike.

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Caracas, Venezuela

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Mike.