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One-Eighty SX
08-29-2002, 10:21 PM
In a thread i read DSC was talken bout heel-toe downshifting and trailbrakin and i have no clue to what it is and what the main function is it for tight turns or what... but im curious to know what is.

AceInHole
08-29-2002, 10:25 PM
too long to post... supplied a link.  click it if you want.

Trail Braking (http://www.miata.net/sport/Physics/Part23.html)

DrDubbleB
08-29-2002, 10:25 PM
It's a highly advanced and very risky braking technique if you don't know what you're doing. Check out this article on it:

http://www.miata.net/sport/Physics/Part23.html

And damnit Ace, you beat me to it!!! >_<

AceInHole
08-29-2002, 10:30 PM
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (DrDubbleB @ Aug. 29 2002,12:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">And damnit Ace, you beat me to it!!! >_<</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Sorry, Irena complained that I was no longer on Zilvia, so I had to prove her wrong or something.

tnord
08-30-2002, 01:23 AM
in it's simplist form.........trail braking is braking and turning at the same time.

240 2NR
08-30-2002, 08:01 AM
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (tnord @ Aug. 30 2002,02:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">in it's simplist form.........trail braking is braking and turning at the same time.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Which sounds easy enough, but it's HARD at the LIMITS on the track.

uiuc240
08-30-2002, 09:23 AM
maybe if you all weren't sooch a boonch of fookin' fairies!!! &nbsp;it wouldn't be so damn hard.
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j/k

Eric