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Left Foot Braking

What is it?  Why do you do it?

Left foot braking (unsurprisingly) involves operating the brake with the left foot, leaving the right foot free to operate the throttle.
 
Some of the reasons for doing this are ...
  • To reduce the amount of time spent moving the right foot between throttle and brake .
  • To reduce understeer when cornering under acceleration.  Particularly effective for front wheel drive vehicles.
The video below shows a demonstration of left foot braking by the late, great Colin McCrae...
 

Reference Articles

Interesting articles and threads discussing the benefits (or otherwise) of using left foot braking...
 
 
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