{"id":45369,"date":"2023-08-29T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=45369"},"modified":"2024-03-23T08:00:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T15:00:34","slug":"q-what-types-of-corners-should-i-use-trail-braking-and-which-ones-shouldnt-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-what-types-of-corners-should-i-use-trail-braking-and-which-ones-shouldnt-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: What types of corners should I use trail braking on, and what types should I not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45370 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ask-Ross-image-3-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><strong>Q<\/strong>: <em>\u201cWhat kind of corner requires more or less trail braking? Or is that always car dependent?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: Typically, slow, tight corners require more trail braking, and fast, larger radius corners less (or none at all).<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because one of the reasons we use trail braking is to help rotate or change the direction the car, and that\u2019s something you need more of in tight-radius corners. For example, 180-degree hairpins, where you need to slow down significantly and rotate the car before accelerating out of the corner rewards trail braking.<\/p>\n<p>Corners that don&#8217;t require much change in direction, such as fast, sweeping corners, usually reward less trail braking. In these corners, it&#8217;s often better to be on the throttle from the turn-in point, as the car is better balanced and has more grip when its weight has stopped transferring from one axle to the other.<\/p>\n<p>While these general guidelines apply to most situations, the amount of trail braking needed can also depend on the specific car you&#8217;re driving. Different cars may require different amounts of trail braking to achieve optimal cornering performance. It&#8217;s good to experiment and adapt your trail braking technique to the car and the specific corner you&#8217;re navigating. Practice playing with the timing and rate of release of the brakes, and see what happens when you differ this all-important technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What types of corners should I use trail braking on, and which ones shouldn\u2019t I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45370,"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-45369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ask-ross"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45369","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=45369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45372,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45369\/revisions\/45372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}