Braking technique.

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Do you left-foot or right-foot brake?

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I've been wondering this for some time, but this TT has brought it into sharper focus:

Are the majority of wheel users using right foot, or left foot braking?
 
Left foot brake unless using the clutch (at the time, will LFB on corners when shifting isnt required even with the clutch enabled)

Although... as the Time trial doesn't have clutch support then I just left foot brake.
 
Left foot brake, though I use a pad most of the time anyway.

I've not used the clutch on the G25 before so I've never had the need to right-foot brake.
 
I should say that I have always right-foot braked. Only while doing this TT has it started to become apparent that left-foot braking could confer real advantages. The time moving your foot from throttle to brake & back is enough to lose you valuable factions of a second, but in addition, the ability to balance the car with brake & throttle at the same time (a little unrealistically in my view) is probably a very significant factor also.

I did try left-foot braking in the GT5TT, but although I could see the potential benefits, I am too unaccustomed to it, to use it to good advantage without a lot more practice.
 
Biggles
How can you not know, Steve?! :confused:
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Well, I've been thinking about it hard, and I am fairly certain that I use my left foot to brake at least some of the time.

I tend to brake on a sub-concious level, I never really think about what foot I use.
 
I've been a left foot braker since I got my first DFP with GT3. Even before I understood the advantages of left foot braking the choice was a practical one at the time. I had a wheelstand that had a pipe in the way of me moving my right foot over the the brake pedal so I had no choice but to learn how to left foot brake.

All that being said I'm realizing how many bad habits I picked up over the years with my left foot and the wiggle room that GT3/GT4P/GT4 provided. This demo is forcing me to rethink and relearn my driving (or lack of) technique. On top of the GTPSP has shown me that true on/off brake/throttle control maybe isn't a bad thing (sometimes).
 
Those who left-foot brake, do you also do this IRL?

I realize now that "left-foot braking unless using a clutch" is a somewhat ambiguous question. Do some people left-foot brake even with a clutch (except when actually pressing the clutch pedal), or does everyone switch over completely to right foot braking when driving a car with a clutch. My concern would be getting mixed up IRL with all the changing from one technique to another.
 
Biggles
Those who left-foot brake, do you also do this IRL?
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I used to left foot brake in 'real life' a lot when I had hot hatches (XR3i, Rover 200gti, Audi A3 1.8T) and in particular when I had an Impreza, but I don't use it in either of my current cars... LFB isn't really a technique that works well with a 911 and the Mondeo is a bit big and soft.
 
I brake with my left foot in any racing game. I brake with my right foot exclusively in real life.
 
I used to left foot brake in 'real life' a lot when I had hot hatches (XR3i, Rover 200gti, Audi A3 1.8T) and in particular when I had an Impreza
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When you're doing this with a car with a clutch, you have to switch "intuitively" to the right foot when you're using the clutch? Does that not potentially result in some dodgy moments?
 
I tend to LFB in sims whereas in real life I'm exclusively RFB. But then again, there I don't try to shave off fractions of a second, usually : )
 
Anghammarad
I brake with my left foot in any racing game. I brake with my right foot exclusively in real life.
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Same here.

I used left foot braking even before I realised it exists, I just realised quickly that using gas while braking would keep my revs high thus giving me better lap times.

When I heard about Michael Schumacher was left foot braking too, I wasn't surprised he's so much faster than other F1 drivers at all. :lol: 👍
 
I use to left foot brake in my old car, mainly because it had a habbit of stalling when changing gears it refused to "tick over" so had to knock the car into neutral and then keep the revs up with my right foot then brake with my left foot!! was doing this for about 2 years so it came quite easy to do in GT lol
 
I left foot brake in games, and right foot brake in my vehicles! Use to left foot brake when i drove automatics, but not anymore for some reason.( Real vehicles )
 
When I heard about Michael Schumacher was left foot braking too, I wasn't surprised he's so much faster than other F1 drivers at all.
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I was under the impression that most F1 drivers used left-foot braking.

I tend to LFB in sims whereas in real life I'm exclusively RFB. But then again, there I don't try to shave off fractions of a second, usually : )
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MeAgainstYou & Hyperspeed seem to be able to crank out very fast times with RFB, which, for me, is both reassuring & faintly depressing at the same time. 👍 👎 :indiff:
 
H20HYBRID_GT
When I heard about Michael Schumacher was left foot braking too, I wasn't surprised he's so much faster than other F1 drivers at all. :lol: 👍
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As far as I know (from what I've read and heard in F1 coverage) all current F1 drivers (and most of the past 5 years) but Rubens Barrichello are left foot brakers. Even Rubens has been trying some left foot braking in the past two seasons. It's been that way since physical clutches left F1 cars.

I don't own a car in real life, but when I do drive it's 99% with a automatic transmission and right foot only.
 
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Left foot brake always in GT.


Never used the clutch on the G25 in GT because the gearstick is too flimsy and cheap and you cant use paddles with clutch. Shame really because clutch + paddles is my fave combo in other games, under those circumstances I always use rightfoot braking. 👍
 
Biggles
When you're doing this with a car with a clutch, you have to switch "intuitively" to the right foot when you're using the clutch? Does that not potentially result in some dodgy moments?
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Yes, I've been doing it for 20 years, so it's pretty much 2nd nature to me now... though it took me a huge amount of time and practice to get to that stage.

I started by using my left foot to brake normally in light traffic conditions... pulling up to junctions etc... this is the hardest bit to learn. At the time I was covering over 1,000 miles a week for business, so I had plenty of time to practice. Eventually, I got to the stage where I could brake as effectively with my left foot as my right in normal driving.

Once you get to the stage where you can apply the right amount of braking with your left foot in all circumstances without ever having to consiously think about it, it's relatively easy to then switch from right foot to left foot when needing to use the clutch.
 
IRL: right foot, always. But...my brain doesn't appear to apply that knowledge when playing a game on my G25, so it's always left foot there. Very weird, but I can't seem to left foot brake in real life and I can't right foot brake in games...
 
Biggles
MeAgainstYou & Hyperspeed seem to be able to crank out very fast times with RFB, which, for me, is both reassuring & faintly depressing at the same time. 👍 👎 :indiff:
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no problems at all ;) 👍 ah.. i use left foot on karts :lol:

what hand you use to shift!? :D right here

football: both foots; tennis left hand; launch balls: left hand; ping-pong: right; writing: right ... just an habit from the beginning nothing else :p
 

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