Hello guys!
I've been playing around with the stick shifter on my G27 lately. Just for fun. It's been going fine on some tracks until I came to spa with two hard braking zones. I know from using the paddles, to be fast in those corners you need to use the gearing, one gear at a time to slow down the car as fast as possible, all the while pumping the brake and throttle blipping on the down shifts.
But with a stick, theres no way of having three feet, not even mentioning coordinating all those things at once.
Yes, heel and toe would work but would be amazingly difficult and probably very easy to mess up and not as effective as using the paddle shifters.
So if one would not learn heel and toe, how are you guys braking and downshifting for hair pins? Just braking and down shifting to the final gear right at the end? Going one gear at a time, releasing the brake pedal every time would be greatly ineffective and increase braking distance.
I've been playing around with the stick shifter on my G27 lately. Just for fun. It's been going fine on some tracks until I came to spa with two hard braking zones. I know from using the paddles, to be fast in those corners you need to use the gearing, one gear at a time to slow down the car as fast as possible, all the while pumping the brake and throttle blipping on the down shifts.
But with a stick, theres no way of having three feet, not even mentioning coordinating all those things at once.
Yes, heel and toe would work but would be amazingly difficult and probably very easy to mess up and not as effective as using the paddle shifters.
So if one would not learn heel and toe, how are you guys braking and downshifting for hair pins? Just braking and down shifting to the final gear right at the end? Going one gear at a time, releasing the brake pedal every time would be greatly ineffective and increase braking distance.