Kelju_K
Since we are gonna get that shiny new transmission model in to the game sometime in the future, i tought it would be good to address this topic.
It's a common misbelief that you can JUST aswell leftfoot brake as heel/toe. A claim usually made by simracers who haven't bothered to learn the heel/toe technique i find, based on some story heard from some old racer from back in the days, lol..
It's not like there never was a reason to develop the heel/toe technique gents, there's totally a valid reason for it:
In situation where you have high brake pressure, and high revs (dropping fast due braking) simultaneously, margin to get the blip just right for the lower gear to engage becomes very small (smaller than you might think at first), and by clutching you increase that margin considerably.
In older racecars there was allways mechanical system with distance from the gas pedal to the carburators, and this system is/was never without some "slack" since its not rigid/solid. This combined to slower reacting carburators (vs. injection) made accurate enough blips (without clutching) allmost impossible when on high revs and high brakes.
Even tough sequential gearboxes of today makes the shifting faster it does not remove the problem mentioned before. It has more to do with the accuracy and speed of the fuel management system.
Modern racecars have much more solid pedal mechanics, ECU controlled fuel injection, and some with even completely electoric pedal systems, which all make blipping accurately much easier thus lowering or even completely removing the need for clutching no matter the situation.
But even today, in most of the modern tin top classes, when you compare 2 drivers, one heel/toeing the other left foot braking, the latter usually lets the revs drop a little lower for the downshift. So even with modern race cars of today, heel/toe shifting technique keeps giving advantage, and has not yet become totally obsolete.
P.S I love how well this is modeled in one of the newly released sims. It's like they read my mind...or maybe they just relied on physics calculations, who knows
P.S.S waiting for pad knockback to be modeled someday...
It's a common misbelief that you can JUST aswell leftfoot brake as heel/toe. A claim usually made by simracers who haven't bothered to learn the heel/toe technique i find, based on some story heard from some old racer from back in the days, lol..
It's not like there never was a reason to develop the heel/toe technique gents, there's totally a valid reason for it:
In situation where you have high brake pressure, and high revs (dropping fast due braking) simultaneously, margin to get the blip just right for the lower gear to engage becomes very small (smaller than you might think at first), and by clutching you increase that margin considerably.
In older racecars there was allways mechanical system with distance from the gas pedal to the carburators, and this system is/was never without some "slack" since its not rigid/solid. This combined to slower reacting carburators (vs. injection) made accurate enough blips (without clutching) allmost impossible when on high revs and high brakes.
Even tough sequential gearboxes of today makes the shifting faster it does not remove the problem mentioned before. It has more to do with the accuracy and speed of the fuel management system.
Modern racecars have much more solid pedal mechanics, ECU controlled fuel injection, and some with even completely electoric pedal systems, which all make blipping accurately much easier thus lowering or even completely removing the need for clutching no matter the situation.
But even today, in most of the modern tin top classes, when you compare 2 drivers, one heel/toeing the other left foot braking, the latter usually lets the revs drop a little lower for the downshift. So even with modern race cars of today, heel/toe shifting technique keeps giving advantage, and has not yet become totally obsolete.
P.S I love how well this is modeled in one of the newly released sims. It's like they read my mind...or maybe they just relied on physics calculations, who knows
P.S.S waiting for pad knockback to be modeled someday...
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