Nascar - left foot braking ?

Do real Nascar Drivers (Earnhardt&Co.) step on the brake with their left foot? Recently I read a trackgeuide about Nascar2: ...hold both the brakes and the gas to the floor ... What about the clutch? So Im just a Nascar Beginner playing by joystick not wheel and pedals. Strange question but would be interesting to know. Thanks Uli

I' m not quite sure about Nascar drivers, but I know open-wheel race car drivers use a technique called Heel-and-toe braking. You push in the clutch with your left foot to downshift while braking with your right foot heel, and your toes go on the gas pedal ready to start accellerating while still braking. I' m 99% sure that' s how it is. I could be wrong. There' s also another called threshold braking, but i don' t know how it works yet.

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> I' m not quite sure about Nascar drivers, but I know open-wheel race car > drivers use a technique called Heel-and-toe braking. You push in the clutch > with your left foot to downshift while braking with your right foot heel, > and your toes go on the gas pedal ready to start accellerating while still > braking. > I' m 99% sure that' s how it is. I could be wrong.

Close. The right toe is on the brake, and the right heel blips the gas. This makes a smoother downshift. Threshold braking is just braking at the point just before locking the wheels. It is at the threshold of a skid. -- Mark --------------------------------------------------- The views expressed above are mine, and mine alone.