Left Foot Braking

[Koshinn]

Basically, you can use left foot braking mid-corner to change understeer to neutral or oversteer in a FWD car.

It doesn't matter if you're in a manual or automatic because you should be braking (and yes heel-toe rev match if manual) before you enter the corner. When you're actually in the corner you should be on the accelerator, so your left foot should be doing nothing. This is how you should almost always be cornering while racing on tarmac, and that's usually all there is to it on a RWD as they can balance weight transfer with just the throttle. FWDs need a little more work.

I used to do it when racing hondas. Dont judge.

[Vandal]

Unless I am using launch control in my GTI my left foot stays on the dead pedal. I have never left foot braked in any car while on the road or the track with either a manual or auto.

[Voodoo_Man]

Learned to left brake during my racing days, use it during offensive driving running code to priority calls.

I don't do it when I normally drive.

Good to learn when you need to do some serious driving, but if you don't do serious driving, or racing, then I wouldn't even put time in on it.

[MountainRaven]

Never done it myself and I've spent so much time using my right foot for both brake and accelerator that I feel like I'd put people at risk doing it. But one of my father's friends does it: He has two pedals and two feet, so he uses one foot for each pedal.

[Whiskey_Bravo]

I learned on a standard and have driven an auto for a long time. The closest I have come to doing this was in my old CJ so I could maintain power, brake, and clutch when crawling up something steep or rocky.

[Alex V]

Oh. I forgot. When drag racing my friends' automatic F-Bodies/Vettes/GTOs without a Trans brake I would use my left foot on the break to load the torque converter at the line.

No float?

? You lost me.

Even street driving my TA, because the trans is FacePlated I have to rev match on a downshift. Slowing down for a turn or whatever I have to heel toe and blip the throttle as well.

[Swstock]

I spent some time drag racing an automatic turbo car.

We would basically stand on both pedals as we inched into the beams before hitting the transbrake.

After that, it was right foot brake.


Before that, I raced a stick...well, we know that the left foot is for there.

[ClearedHot]

Brake boosting in a turbo car is another technique that utilizes left foot braking. All the guys running big single turbo setups brake boost when racing from a roll.

[No.6]

Raced karts before I got a drivers license, so left foot braking seemed natural to me. Continued when I started racing formula cars (other than getting them rolling). Always left foot brake on the street as long as I'm in an automatic. Manual transmission no problem adapting.

[HKGuns]

I learned to drive with a clutch and always left foot braked. It doesn't seem natural for me not to be doing something with my left foot.

I've never understood why they teach right foot braking. I have two feet and I use them.