{"id":2152,"date":"2015-09-03T08:52:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T08:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2015-08-28T12:39:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T12:39:26","slug":"breathe-the-throttle-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/breathe-the-throttle-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Breathe The Throttle&#8221; Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How To Drive Faster:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1315 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Speed-Secret.png\" alt=\"speed-secret\" width=\"212\" height=\"45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Speed-Secret.png 622w, https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Speed-Secret-300x63.png 300w, https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Speed-Secret-500x106.png 500w, https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Speed-Secret-64x14.png 64w, https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Speed-Secret-510x108.png 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h2>&#8220;Breathe The Throttle&#8221;\u00a0&#8211; What Is It?<\/h2>\n<p>You can lift your foot off the throttle \u2013 the gas pedal \u2013 or you can \u201cbreathe\u201d it. The term \u201cbreathe the throttle\u201d relates to a gentle easing off of the throttle, rather than a complete and relatively quick lift of it.<\/p>\n<p>You would typically breathe the throttle in corners that don\u2019t require braking, such as a long, fast corner. But it might require an easing up of the throttle, to either reduce speed just a little bit, or to transfer some weight onto the front tires to increase their traction.<\/p>\n<p>I shared more thoughts about the use of the throttle in a <a href=\"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/driving-tips\/on-throttle-coasting-speed-secrets-quick-tip\/\" target=\"_blank\">video tip about Coasting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Check back here for more tips and advice for performance drivers, race drivers, high performance driving instructors, and anyone else interested in learning to get around race tracks quickly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Please share this now with others who you think would either learn something from it, or enjoy it, by clicking on any of the links below. Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can lift your foot off the throttle \u2013 the gas pedal \u2013 or you can \u201cbreathe\u201d it. The term \u201cbreathe the throttle\u201d relates to a gentle easing off of the throttle, rather than a complete and relatively quick lift of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driving-tips","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}