Debate: Straight vs trail braking for beginners

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01-07-2009, 10:12 AM

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I've never been able to get my car to brake and turn at the same time in AutoX...so I don't see why speeding the whole situation up would help.

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01-07-2009, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by betamotorsports

If particular track has a slow speed corner I, often in the last session of the day, ask my students to trail brake a little through that corner so they get an idea of what its like. Whether I do this or not depends on how the student behaved during the day.

I think that's what Ross was saying as well.

He talked about it a different way. Why teach someone one way of doing things, then when they get it right you say "So now that you have that down, let's completely change it".

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01-07-2009, 11:40 AM

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Brake in a straight line, then turn in on-throttle. Works every time...

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01-07-2009, 11:43 AM

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Brake in a straight line, then turn in on-throttle. Works every time...

umm, yea.

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01-13-2009, 12:23 AM

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1st taste of trail braking...sitting passenger on an instructor at putnam park's 4XX hp/6XX tq ford lightning with stock (crap) seats/seatbelts. Probably the scariest moment of my life (thought I was going to die every turn for 5 laps straight).

2nd taste of trail braking...sitting passenger in an stock '04 Z with racing harnesses.

The lightning felt like a tipping building. The Z felt like an F1 car compared to the lightning