{"id":36308,"date":"2021-05-17T04:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=36308"},"modified":"2021-09-04T12:34:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:34:26","slug":"q-how-do-i-stop-over-braking-and-causing-my-car-to-understeer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-how-do-i-stop-over-braking-and-causing-my-car-to-understeer\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: How do I stop over-braking and causing my car to understeer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: <em>\u201cIf telemetry tells me I\u2019m over-braking for a turn, but reducing braking creates understeer, is it a steering input issue? To clarify, reducing braking causes me to miss the apex. What is going on here? Do I stink at turning in?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: I don\u2019t smell anything, so I don\u2019t think you stink! J<\/p>\n<p>When you say you reduce your braking, I\u2019d have to know where you\u2019re reducing it. If you reduce it towards the EoB (End-of-Braking), then it might be that you\u2019re unloading the front tires too early, and that\u2019s what\u2019s causing the understeer. If that\u2019s the case, then I\u2019d suggest moving your whole braking zone further into the corner \u2013 beginning and ending braking later. In doing so, you\u2019ll be trail braking a little more, keeping the front tires loaded a little longer.<\/p>\n<p>The way you describe it, you\u2019re releasing the brakes early \u2013 and you\u2019re doing that in an attempt to not over-brake, but it\u2019s causing the understeer. If you move your whole brake zone in further \u2013 a later BoB and EoB \u2013 then you\u2019ll carry more speed into the corner (not over-brake), and keep some load on the front tires. That\u2019s the first place I\u2019d suggest working on.<\/p>\n<p>From what you say, I don\u2019t think you\u2019re over-braking, but you\u2019re over-slowing. And that\u2019s because you\u2019re beginning your braking too early. Move the whole brake zone in, and I suspect you\u2019ll carry more speed into the corner, and have less understeer. This is a case of getting a double-whammy working in the right direction for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: \u201cIf telemetry tells me I\u2019m over-braking for a turn, but reducing braking creates understeer, is it a steering input issue? To clarify, reducing braking causes me to miss the apex. What is going on here? Do I stink at turning in?\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-36308","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\/36308","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=36308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36309,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36308\/revisions\/36309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}