Rear-Wheel-Drive Cars Are Back, Baby, and We Have EVs to Thank

Re:Rear-Wheel-Drive Cars Are Back, Baby, and We Have EVs to ... by PaulHoule on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:15PM (#35642275)

“One foot on the brake, One foot on the gas”. You apply brakes and the gas simultaneously when going through a corner.

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Re:Rear-Wheel-Drive Cars Are Back, Baby, and We Have EVs to ... by winrid on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:33PM (#35642526)

Left foot braking is indeed used to go fast in a FWD car. But you can use it in RWD too to manage balance.

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Re:Rear-Wheel-Drive Cars Are Back, Baby, and We Have EVs to ... by klyrs on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:45PM (#35642693)

Thanks, I hate it. :)

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Re:Rear-Wheel-Drive Cars Are Back, Baby, and We Have EVs to ... by TacticalCoder on Thursday April 20, 2023 @01:32PM (#35643343)

> “One foot on the brake, One foot on the gas”.

Back in the days this could also be used for performance reasons, to keep the turbo on, preventing it from needing to kick in again upon re-acceleration out of of the corner (back then turbo lag was huge and the "kick" was hard to control).

This technique was known to be very harsh on the engine but some races pilots would do it anyway.

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