Can and do you heel and toe?

[balidey]

i can't manage it..the whole turning your foot sideways wont work for me

Its called 'heel and toe' but you don't actually use the heel and toe. You move your foot across, still pointing in the same direction to span both pedals. And you then rock your foot down to the right to blip the throttle. So your big toe side of the foot is braking, and to blip you push the little toe side of the foot down on the throttle.

If you watch a racing driver do it (i'm sure theres clips on youtube) you will see the pedals are very close together.

Its a difficult skill to master, which is why i can't do it. And to be honest, if you 'need' to do it on the road, you're going too fast.

 

[StevenRB45]

Its called 'heel and toe' but you don't actually use the heel and toe. You move your foot across, still pointing in the same direction to span both pedals. And you then rock your foot down to the right to blip the throttle. So your big toe side of the foot is braking, and to blip you push the little toe side of the foot down on the throttle.

The gaps a bit big for that one, the one i figured was braking with the ball of my foot with my foot at about a ten o'clock angle which allows me to catch the edge of the throttle pedal enough to give it a blip, the videos i'd seen the did actually have their foot sideways tho think that was walter rohl in an Audi quattro...

 

[Jai]

i have long since given up trying to make a size 12 right foot do the pedal dance.....

 

[maddogmorg]

in the tipo it's easy enough and is necessary if you want to maintain the illusion of being smooth yet trying to get the car up monks hill when you drop down to first:slayer: you could do it all in second at a push but since it's tight bends this isn't practical, even the mirrors on the bends have disappeared apart from at the top. i think it's at least a 1 in 4!! whatever it is it's very steep lol several cars have been known not to make it up it with passengers lol. quite amusing reading in the local paper about people taking caravans or lorrys down it due to sat nav and ending up in the wall at the bottom lol.

 

[bulldog5046]

cool, where's that? i wanna try it out

 

[maddogmorg]

in weston as you go over the top of worlebury hill down to kewstoke it's the bit with the gradient chevrons.
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=335000&Y=162500&width=700&height=400&gride=333678.92682612&gridn=163725.586026611&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&keepicon=true&zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=240&multimap.y=142
it's not that long though. porlock hill is probably steeper and it's definitely longer http://www.martynhicks.co.uk/personal/html/exmoor/porlockhill.html
haven't tryed it yet though.

 

[rallycinq]

I do it all the time, doen't matter what car I'm driving. I've been doing it so long I can't not do it.

My ankle is used to the movement needed.

Cheers

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