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Originally Posted by PowderfaceTr.
It beats your cars up pretty bad. I know people that spend more time learning bad habits with their hands than making good laps. It's for show best lap they did was reckless, nothing more. if you work out your steering muscles like me you could hold it steady and just flat foot it all the way until ABS . I can't say that I flick myself, but my mate does it compulsively. As in he does it when playing, skill building. Discussing skill building, im waiting for you to tell me how you get better at road driving
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This is a conversation that I really should just let drop, but what the hell, I'll keep biting.
First, flat footing either the brake or the gas all the way around the course means to give up a huge portion of your control via weight transfer. I know for me some of my most important steering muscles are in my legs.
Second, the general consensus is that ABS isn't necessarily the fastest way to slow down and it makes your brakes overheat faster.
In terms of how I learn to be a better road course racer/driver:
Time on track (I think I did about 50 days last year).
Asking other people what they are doing.
Having people ride with me to see what I am missing.
Riding with other people to see what I feel they are doing.
Close passing exercises. Actual wheel to wheel racing (now that is drinking from a fire hose).
Looking at my track time videos.
Looking at the data logging from my sessions.
Reading articles about skill development and progression.
Reading articles about car control.
Reading about how the systems on the car work so I can understand what they are doing.
Go Kart racing (great to improve slip angle and counter steering technique in a safe environment).
Autocross.
Observations of what I am doing driving on the street (ie. how can I make a random turn as stable as possible, trying to do the perfect rev match without looking at the gauges but instead my sense of speed and the sound of the engine, etc.)
Probably a whole bunch of other things.