Senna's heel & toe

[spd-dmn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8By2AEsGAhU


the voice over is in Japanese but the footage speaks for itself :D


i love that he's wearing loafers

[Jon04CTSV]

So much for smooth = fast

[h-bomb]

Yeah - what's with all of the throttle stabbing? I'd have pulled him off the track had he been my student :)

[Slowpoke]

Was he driving a turbo car in Formula One at the time? I've used that style of throttle application at the apex of a turn to get the turbo spooling for faster response when I can finally put the power down.

Some of us saw at the wheel a bit in slalom to test available grip, maybe he uses the throttle instead? Or he was trying to induce rotation?

Rookies... whatcha gonna do? :rolleyes:

[George]

Yeah - what's with all of the throttle stabbing? I'd have pulled him off the track had he been my student :)

He's always used that style even when he was racing karts.

[MastaDeeMon]

I drive the exact same way.(Only much slower):rolleyes:

[Fobio_MS3]

haha...yeah, I drive like senna...:p

[Action Jackson]

Love how that NSX goes beyond it's speedo range.

[AW11_4AGZE]

a setup mid engine car? yeah... throttle manipulation ;).

Nice vid... and on another note, lovely track.

+1 for the loafers haha.

[abrracing]

So much for Sir Jackie Stewarts "Dont press the gas pedal until you know you never have to take it off" lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5rpFXdWtK4
Listen to the 3:28 mark of the video

[23Racer]

"So much for smooth = fast"

You know smooth = fast at 8/10ths. When ever I have been on the limit in a car it has never been all that smooth as you are always catching minute drifts and slides. It just looks smooth from the outside.

"Yeah - what's with all of the throttle stabbing? I'd have pulled him off the track had he been my student"

Interesting. I learned to do that when I was racing 2 stroke 100cc Direct Drive karts. You needed to never take your foot completely off the throttle at high rpm as the engine would seize. You would constantly blip the throttle on corner entry and mid corner to keep life giving gas (and oil) going into the engine. As well you had to burp the carbs just before you lifted to momentarily flood the motors. You also did that to keep the rear tires spinning so the engine was up on the pipe.

For a while after I moved back to cars I found myself blipping the throttle mid-turn whenever I was driving at the limit. It definitely unbalanced a low horsepower car mid turn at Mosport, LOL. Funny how Senna kept doing it in F1 and everybody thought he was doing it for turbo spooling. It was more than likely a carry over from his karting days and as he was sooooo freakin' fast everybody thought he was doing it for a reason.

Eric

[Sasha]

I believe he's doing it to stop the excessive understeer on throttle, trying to buck the car to help it rotate

[RETROCRX]

I think Sasha's interretation is likely the most accurate.

It's not like he is jumping from 100% to 0% throttle, he is playing around with throttle input in the area mid corner where you are at max lateral accel where you are more or less at steady state. His inputs are helping him steer the car. He is basically sampling available grip for accel out of the corner far before any of us mere mortals would even think the bring the car off of balanced throttle! That's WHY he was so fast.

Just my take on it anyway.