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Old 03-15-2016, 04:22 PM   #235
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Originally Posted by Ashikabi View Post
You shouldn't be using heel toe if you're stopping. You heel toe to maintain high rpm while slowing down so you can better accelerate or for managing a drift. If you stop it's pointless. Just keep down shifting until you are going really slow
This is not entirely accurate.


Heel-toe is ONLY used when decelerating and is used to make the gear shift transitions smoother (less jerk on the wheels).
This is particularly important when trail-braking during hard cornering where if you shift too abruptly you can upset the car and loose traction in the rear.
Stopping is just a variation of decelerating.

You can also decelerate using JUST rev-matching and no braking...

In this car I use the extended gas pedal and instead of heel-toe I use both balls of my right foot.
Big toe on brake, right side on gas to blip.


In my Porsche the gas pedal hinges from the floor so I actually use the heel of my foot to blip the throttle.
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