{"id":35910,"date":"2021-04-12T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=35910"},"modified":"2021-03-21T13:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T20:23:02","slug":"q-is-there-ever-a-time-for-coasting-where-im-not-on-either-the-brakes-or-throttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-is-there-ever-a-time-for-coasting-where-im-not-on-either-the-brakes-or-throttle\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Is there ever a time for coasting, where I\u2019m not on either the brakes or throttle?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q<\/strong>: \u201cIn a recent webinar that you did (the Improve Your Braking & Corner Entry \u2013 I learned a ton from it!), you showed a diagram of a corner where there was a period of time where there was no braking or acceleration. It seemed like coasting, and I was always taught that I should always be on the brakes or the gas pedal, with no coasting in between. What am I missing? Or was your diagram wrong?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A<\/strong>: First, the diagram I used was to illustrate the concept. The length of time off brake and throttle is different in just about every corner, with different cars, in different conditions. But just like the \u201cnever trail brake\u201d advice (which is wrong), the \u201cnever coast\u201d advice is overdone.<\/p>\n

There are definitely times when you do need to coast. Sure, I don\u2019t like the word \u201ccoast\u201d any more than you do, which is why I choose to use the word \u201chesitate\u201d before applying the throttle.<\/p>\n

Why would there be any gap between EoB (End-of-Braking) and initial application of the throttle? To give the car time to change direction so that when you begin to apply throttle, you can go all the way to full throttle without having to ease up on it. In creating that illustration, I purposely made the pure cornering area that long to emphasize that we sometimes need to let the car use all of the tires\u2019 traction for pure lateral grip – cornering. And that if we hesitate a little – sometimes, but not all of the time – the car will change direction (rotate) a little bit more, and that allows you to go to full throttle sooner.<\/p>\n

If you find yourself coming off the brakes (EoB) and immediately being able to apply the throttle, that could mean a few different but related things: First, it might mean that you\u2019ve over-slowed for the corner, and more corner entry speed is available. Second, it might mean that you got on power before the car has rotated enough, and now you\u2019ll begin to feed in the throttle\u2026 then ease up or plateau\u2026 then finally get to full throttle; if you\u2019d hesitated a fraction of a second longer, you may have begun to apply the throttle later, but you\u2019d have gotten to full throttle sooner (and that\u2019s what matters the most, most often). Finally, there are corners that are long enough that the car should be in maximum pure cornering for some amount of time.<\/p>\n

Again, it\u2019s different for every corner, in every car, in every condition. Hey, if this was easy, everyone would be doing it! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q: \u201cIn a recent webinar that you did (the Improve Your Braking & Corner Entry \u2013 I learned a ton from it!), you showed a diagram of a corner where there was a period of time where there was no braking or acceleration. It seemed like coasting, and I was always taught that I should always be on the brakes or the gas pedal, with no coasting in between. What am I missing? Or was your diagram wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-ross"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35910","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=35910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35911,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35910\/revisions\/35911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}