Heel and Toe
 

Now, how do you do your heel and toe?

Yes, I know how to do it, and I have been doin' for almost 10 yrs. I notice that my friend do his h&t differently than how I do it. He use only toe and outside toe to do it (I guess toe & toe?). He said that there's no space to actually do h&t on his S2k, but when I drive his car I can do h&t without problem. Yeah, he's 6'1" with size 12 shoes and I'm 5'11" with size 9.5 shoes.

Just thought to hear what other drivers do their h&t.

Well on my corolla i use h&t but on my other or past car like the 240sx and G20 the gas pedal and brake pedal are so close to each other that i use the side of the foot or shoe and toe so i guess its called side and toe lol. But my corolla has a wider gap between the gas pedal and brake pedal, but i adjusted my bake pedal lower so it seats same as the gas pedal

I will always 'H&T' when I need to downshift while braking with intention of acceleration afterwards, but other than I might do it just to get in a lower gear while braking however that instance is more rare. In the subaru and with my 10.5 shoe I usually use the brake with the ball of my foot and either use the outside front of my heel or just roll my foot using the outside of it.

i heel-toe the proper way. ball of my foot on the brake, rotate my foot over to blip the throttle with my heel. the ONLY car i haven't been able to do that with comfortably had the most poorly-placed pedals of anything i've ever driven. ever. 2005 Saturn Ion.

otherwise, i've been able to heel-toe every single car i've driven with no problems.

5'9" with size 9 shoes. :D

-Mike

I'm also 6'1 with a sz 12 boot and it depends on which car I'm driving but most of the time I have to do T/T.

5'9", in the morning 5'10" lol

wear a size 10 shoe, depending on style / brand 10.5 but usually one or the other.. currently its 10.

I could H&T the Matrix and Kia, and when I was racing my friends RX-7 (gently as it was my first time in a RWD and first time in his car) I could H&T just fine. Only on the rare occasion would I roll my shoe to press the gas pedal, but I've done that too. My preference is to the full H&T method, feels more comfortable to me.

So I'm hearing that the size of the shoes and the pedals distance change you to do T&T or H&T?

^ Yeah. Me thinks shoe size affects it. Hell, I'm 5'10" and i wear 10.5-11 shoes. And I have trouble doing h&t in some cars. :(

Yea, sounds about right. If the shoes are big, even if they're the same size, I have to use the side of my foot. My Nike Shox are pretty tall so usually I use T/T. When I dont have any shoes on I can do it the correct way..

then again, driving without shoes on is not the correct way to begin with. :)

-Mike

I could never understand it, but my older brother would take off his shoes when he drove the Matrix, I couldn't figure it out for the life of me. He always just said the pedals are comfy... I don't know if I believe him or not.

Now... here's big Q. If height makes the difference of doin' H&T or T&T, here's vid of Ayrton Senna doin' T&T. Vid said H&T, but you can clearly see that he's not using the heel. IIRC Ayrton Senna isn't taller than me. He's 5'7"~5'8" (correct me if I'm wrong on the height).
Ayrton Senna T&T

I have driven NSX once & I can do H&T without problem. Pedals are close, but not that close that I couldn't do H&T.

maybe thats his style? maybe because the kind of shoes he was wearing?

its hard to say...

Its easier to feel exactly where the pedals are at. Some shoes with thinner soles are fine though. I need some Pilotis