Left foot braking?

Hi,

I've been braking with my right foot for a while, just as I do IRL. But, as usual, setup change came which made me wonder what foot do race drivers use.

I am especially interested in auto clutch cars. From two videos below, looks like at least some drivers use left foot for braking. BTW I was surprised to see clutch pedal use GT3 spec Porsche. What are your thoughts?

 

In sims i'm use left foot, but irl only right, because irl i'm just drive but not race

 

I use left foot braking in cars like the Formula Raceroom 2 cars, or cars with similar gearboxes.

I move my pedals a bit to the right or a bit to the left depending on what i'm driving. Stick > all pedals, flappysequential > Left foot braking

 

Thanks .OG. That is exactly how I did it before (moved pedals a bit). My current setup doesn't allow it, but once I do permanent setup I'll figure something out.

I am planning on getting CSP. How adjustable are those pedals left/right wise?

 

For sequential (paddle or stick) sifted car I only use left food brake.
For H pattern gearbox I use both. Right foot when need to use the clutch, left foot otherwise.

Sequential gearbox (in race car) are not automatic gearbox,there's a clutch mechanism.
And there's a clutch pedal for the start.
Even formula 1 still have a clutch (a paddle behind the wheel) for the start

 

I am aware of that, and I use clutch for start too. What I found surprising Porsche guy used clutch during drive as well. Although BTCC video shows clutch intact, which is more what I expected.

 

I left foot brake for everything that I don't use the clutch pedal for. Personally I find the extra ability to shift between the pedals simultaneously to allow me quicker responses to braking and acceleration input.

Plus my left foot gets bored when I don't need to use the clutch pedal

 

I know the feeling

 

to be fast only left food !!! brake and throttle become like yin and yang !

 

I left foot brake when sim racing (when not using the clutch), as well as in real life during those terrible times when I have to drive a "car" with an automatic transmission.

 

I race the GT3 cars with my pedals but i blip when shifting down (got autoclutch on).

 

I prefer realism over getting that extra little iddy bit of time. + It's way more fun to shift with H shifter in an old car.

 

I have to left brake in sims, it's really strange, because like most people in real life I brake with my right, but in sims for some strange reason my right foot wont brake and my left foot wants to naturally.

 

I also notice a huge time difference between shifting with my sequential shifter or with paddles. Yesterday i had some online fun at Spa. When i stop blip i can brake way later and trail braking is much easier. I gained about 1 second per lap.

 

Be aware that that is a 911 Cup car, used in the multiple Supercups championships among other) not the "full GT3" car. And an old model to boot - still has a sequential lever, not paddles, when the current gen is I believe a "full-sequential" with paddles.
There's a whole range of gearbox usage , anything from full manual to full auto-blip/auto-cut and anything in between.


And to add to the poll: I left brake when in sequential cars with auto-blip/auto-clutch, I mostly right brake with manual cars (only left-braking in turns where I don't need to switch gear)

 

With paddles I left foot break always, when using H-shifter I use right foot and toe-heel downshift braking then I use left foot after gear down if needed to keep car at level or to help turning going through a turn. So with H-shifter I am using both

 

The master Ayrton Senna's Heel-and-toe, this is so educational to watch.

 

Im not good enough to heel to toe...yet. I left foot brake.

 

Here you can see me as Walter Röhrl's feetdouble. But they cut the best part, where I was heel-toeing with my left foot and using clutch with my right one.
Nowadays I'm acting much more simple using left at sequential and right at manual gear-box.

 

left foot in sims, right irl