09-21-2006, 09:15 AM
Evan Wrote:adapting your brakes for the change in grip levels that weight transfer provides.
Ive locked up brakes by going too hard too fast plenty of times.
Well it's obviously a car limitation thing, so the way you're saying it is correct. You want to hit them as hard and as fast as the car can stand. The softer the car, the slower the weight transfer, but if someone's consiously easing into the brakes, they might be underestimating how fast the weight could transfer if they did it faster/harder.
Physics don't disagree with him though. I think his point is that for any car, if you have to be X smooth in steering and throttle, you should be X/2 smooth on initial braking.
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