Debate: Straight vs trail braking for beginners

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Jan 7, 2009 | 10:12 AM

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Sisko99

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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.

Jan 7, 2009 | 10:29 AM

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mhoward1

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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".

Jan 7, 2009 | 11:40 AM

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

Jan 7, 2009 | 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by stuntman

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

umm, yea.

Jan 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