04-11-2006, 08:49 PM
Dave Wrote:I'll have a hard time putting it into words, but I'll try. I don't like to really stab my brakes. A kinda hit me brake pedal real lightly, and as I feel the car starting to slow down, just push down harder. Now, that may sound like premature braking, and it probably is, but it kept me smooth. The more I did it, the more I "felt" the brakes and the better feel I got from them. Just get out of the "on/off" switch mindset, and just tell yourself to brake slowly and firmly. Practice it around the street as you are coming up on a turn.
I can picture being smooth at the faster turns like T3 at Summit Main or T9. But I'm thinking of T1 after a long straight. How can brake "slowly" and heel toe and turn smoothly without plowing the concret wall and ending up on the skid pad.
I can be smooth on the street but at speed, the same rules can't possibly apply can it?
Two feet.