08-06-2005, 09:18 PM
white_2kgt Wrote:If you are lifting you are not going as fast as you could be. If you are not using 100% traction then you are not going as fast as you could be, lifting does not use 100% of traction, only turning, acceleration or braking does.
--chad
Wrong. You can stay on the limit of adhesion if you lift as you turn in. Typically this is going to be in either high speed kinks or sections of linked turns like turns 1-3 at Beaverun. Brakes of course can slow the car down faster but braking would slow the car down too much and put too much weight on the front in some situations.
It is this situation that is often a good place to try gentle left foot braking.
But then again maybe we're talking about two different things. I'm talking about when you may have to breathe off the throttle to maybe 75% or 50% throttle (give or take) in order to get the car to turn in. If you're talking about people who lift totally off the throttle and coast, then yeah I'd agree that's probably not the fast way to do it.
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